I stopped quit church because pastor always attacked Buhari — Adesina

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says he stopped attending a branch of a church in Abuja because the pastor was always attacking President Muhammadu Buhari. He said this in an article on Thursday titled, ‘This Kumuyi is simply different’, which was written in support of a statement by […]

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Use Anambra, Ekiti polls to boost your image, Bishop tells INEC

INEC boss, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu The Catholic Bishop of Ekiti, Most Reverend Felix Ajakaye, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to use the forthcoming governorship elections in Anambra and Ekiti states to boost its image positively. The cleric spoke at the weekend in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, while delivering a lecture, titled: “Ekiti […]

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INEC free to transmit Anambra poll results electronically, says Senate panel

Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kabiru Gaya, has said the electoral body is free to transmit the November 6 Anambra State governorship election result electronically, if it so desires. He said this yesterday while addressing reporters after the National Assembly Joint Committee on Electoral Matters and INEC met […]

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Court fines EFCC N5m for illegally declaring man wanted

A Lagos Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to pay the sum of N5million to a businessman, Dr Kennedy Izuagbe, for illegally declaring him wanted. The court presided over by Justice Lewis Allagoa, also ordered the commission to publish an unreserved apology to the businessman on its […]

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Abducted UNIAbuja lecturers, family members freed

The four lecturers  of University of Abuja and their family members abducted by gunmen on Tuesday morning from their staff quarters residence have been freed. This was confirmed bye Federal Capital Territory Police Command spokesperson, DSP Josephine Adeh, who added that their suspected abductors were also arrested. She said: “The FCT Police Command wishes to […]

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Criminals hiding under IPOB’s name unleash mayhem in South-east – Governors

Umahi reading, flanked by his brother governors and other major stakeholders from the region South-East governors have absolved the Indigenous People of Biafra of blame over security challenges in the zone, saying cultists, robbers and kidnappers among other criminals are merely using the organisation’s name to foment trouble. They also said they will soon meet […]

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Ikoyi building collapse death toll hits 40 as rescuers recover developer, friend’s bodies

The corpses of the Managing Director, Fourscore Heights Limited, Mr Femi Osibona, and his friend, a United States of America-based Nigerian businessman, Wale Bob-Oseni, have been recovered from the 21-storey building that collapsed on Gerrard Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. Their bodies were found on Thursday by res-ponders during the recovery operation […]

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Policemen deployed to Ondo checkpoints after soldiers’ withdrawal

Policemen were deployed yesterday to man the checkpoints on major border areas in the state following the withdrawal of soldiers from all checkpoints on major highways across the state. The state police command spokesperson, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, told reporters in Akure yesterday that the state police boss, Mr Bolaji Salami, gave marching orders to police […]

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