Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has said the planned Ondo Sea Port Project will not be abandoned. He disclosed that some investors have expressed interest in the project already but that its take-off was being delayed because of approval from the federal government. He disclosed this on Friday while speaking at a retreat organised […]
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Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, AKA Evans, has claimed that he saw hell in the hands of suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari. Evans had stated this at an Ikeja Special Offences Court, while denying kidnapping a businessman, Sylvanus Ahamonu, and collecting a 420,000 dollar ransom from his family. NAN reports […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has warned that it would soon embark on an indefinite strike to press home their demands one month after it suspended a nine-month-old strike. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chiarman of the University of Jos chapter of the Union, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Jos. The News […]
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The Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has inaugurated 34 state chairmen at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday. The inaugurated are Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu (Abia), Alh Ibrahim Bilal (Adamawa), Mr Augustine Enefiok Ekanem (Akwa Ibom), Hon Basil Ejike (Anambra), Alh Babayo Aliyu Misau […]
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The Delta State Police Command’s Raider’s Operatives have nabbed atleast twenty five suspected cultists in Agbor. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe had confirmed the report in a statement signed and made available to newsmen. He said, “some of the suspects confessed being members of Black Axe Confraternity and Junior Supreme Aiye Confraternity. […]
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Suspected gunmen have reportedly attacked passersby in front of a Government Secondary School located in Kagoro, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State. An eyewitness, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that the gunmen came on motorcycles and wreaked havoc on those they could sight. The source said six persons have been confirmed dead as a […]
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A former Police Commissioner, Emmanuel Ojukwu, has called on the Federal Government to arrest and prosecute terror financiers and not just make media announcements of their existence. According to the former police chief, the regime of the President Muhammadu Buhari, has failed to name and shame sponsors of thef Boko Haram and other terror groups […]
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The Agbekoya Farmers Society of Nigeria on Thursday staged a peaceful rally in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, to demand the immediate release of self-styled leader of Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, from Benin Republic prison. The Farmers vowed to use magical powers to free Igboho if the Benin Republic […]
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Hoodlums suspected to be political thugs, have been said to have attacked Oranmiyan House, the campaign office of Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, and former governor of Osun state. The building located in the Coca Cola Area of the state capital, Osogbo, was previously attacked by thugs during a meeting of The Osun Progressives […]
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The Deputy Minority Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Emmanuel Bwacha, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). This was disclosed by Bashir Ahmad, the Personal Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, via a tweet on his official Twitter page. Ahmad wrote, “The Senate Deputy Minority Leader, […]
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