A High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State on Thursday, sentenced a professor of the University of Calabar, Peter Ogban, to three years in prison for announcing a false election result during the 2019 general elections. The professor of science who had served as the returning officer in the senatorial election in Akwa […]
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General Overseer of Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo has described the hijab controversy rocking the missions in Kwara state as a nasty development. The clergy said he has never seen a place in his life where a tenant will be deciding for the landlord, urging Muslims in the state to “leave […]
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Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has blamed State governors for banditry in the Northern part of the country. Spokesman of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Saleh Hassan, stated that pressure from governors turned some herdsmen into bandits. Hassan said herders, who lost their cattle and businesses, resorted to banditry in the North. Prior to the resurgence of […]
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A military impostor, Henry Mfon Asuquo was on Wednesday, March 24, sentenced by Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, to eight years imprisonment on a two-count charge of impersonation and cybercrime brought against him by the Uyo Zonal Office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. In […]
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Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has disclosed that the state-owned airport is ready for commercial flight operations. Mr Diri disclosed this on Wednesday when he made an unscheduled visit to the facility ahead of a final certification visitation by the country’s aviation regulatory authorities on March 30, 2021. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said that his government has forwarded a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the James Ibori loot recovered by Nigeria. This was stated on Wednesday by the state governor when he appeared on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme. Kokomansion recalls that the United Kingdom some weeks ago […]
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The University of Aberdeen is to return a Benin bronze – a sculpture looted by British soldiers in Nigeria in one of the most notorious examples of the pillaging of cultural treasures associated with 19th century European colonial expansion. Thousands of metal and ivory sculptures and carvings were looted by British forces in 1897 during […]
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Following the release of its remarkable audited financial results for 2020, foremost Pan-African financial services conglomerate, United Capital Plc, held its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at Lagoon Restaurant, Victoria Island, Lagos. At the Annual General Meeting, which was held by proxy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company presented its financial […]
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The Government of Oyo state on Wednesday joined other states across Nigeria to roll out the COVID-19 vaccination exercise. The state flagged off the exercise in Ibadan with the first consignment of 127,740 doses it received from the Federal Government. According to reports Governor Seyi Makinde was inoculated with Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine at exactly 12.20 p.m. During the […]
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The government of Ondo State has ordered a refund of monies paid by parents whose children are to write the 2021 West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Lola Amuda, had given the directive to principals and heads of public secondary schools in the state on […]
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