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Court stops demolition of Ladipo auto spare-part market

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A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has asked the authority of Mushin Local Government Council to stop its plan to demolish a part of the popular Ladipo auto spare-part market. The order issued Friday will subsist pending the determination […]

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NDLEA nabs China-bound man with 1.185kg drugs at Lagos airport

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This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, Head, Public Affairs, NDLEA, on Wednesday in Lagos. The statement said the NDLEA commander at the Lagos airport, Mr Hamza Umar, noted that Chibude was arrested by NDLEA officers […]

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Human rights commission orders release of 6 detainees in Enugu

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The National Human Rights Commission, on Monday, ordered the release of six persons from prison custody in Enugu State pending further hearing of their case on August 26. The commission, holding its pre-sitting on public enquiry into cases of demolitions […]

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Pastor, 12 others arrested for alleged kidnapping in Ekiti

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RESIDENTS of Ekiti State who have known Pastor Babatunde Balogun as a man of God were shocked when security agents yesterday paraded him and 12 others as kidnap suspects that have been terrorising the state in the last six months. […]

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Police parades soldier, 9 others for robbery, kidnapping in Port Harcourt

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An Army private, Elijah Owoh, who absconded from his duty post in Biu, Borno state was among the ten suspects arrested and paraded by Rivers Police command for robbery before Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike. The state Commissioner of Police, […]

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Oshiomhole Says Jonathan’s Ministers Stole $6bn

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Tobi Soniyi in Abuja ‎ Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday rejected the Peoples Democratic Party’s criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to the United States of America, saying that the party should bury its head in shame after […]

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Buhari’s anti-corruption war in perspective

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From Judex Okoro, Calabar IT has become an axiomatic fact that corruption in Nigeria has reached its climax. This development has put the country in bad light, especially before the international community. No wonder that in the Transparency International Corruption […]

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Man Jailed For Assault

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A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced a man, Elijah Okoro, to one month imprisonment for assaulting a man with cutlass. Okoro, who resides at Wuse Zone 2, pleaded guilty to the charge and begged for […]

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Judge bans father taking daughters to Nigeria for female genital mutilation

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Court issues protection order preventing three sisters, aged six to 12, from being taken out of UK after mother testifies she has ‘never recovered’ from FGM herself. Three sisters whose father was deemed to be preparing to have them undergo […]

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3,000 ghost police pensioners revealed

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The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has discovered 3,000 ghost pensioners in the police pension scheme, the Director-General, Nellie Mayshak, has said. Mayshak made the disclosure at a two-day sensitisation workshop in Abuja on Thursday, saying, “when PTAD was first […]