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Otti Escapes Assassination, Police Officer Shot Dead.

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Former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Dr Alex Otti Friday said that unknown gunmen invaded his Abuja guest house in the early hours of the day, apparently to assassinate him. Briefing journalists at […]

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EFCC to probe Amnesty programme

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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC) has started probing the activities of the Presidential Amnesty Programme and has invited immediate past Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, for questioning on July 28. On his […]

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Okada riders chase Ondo commissioner out of office

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A mild drama played out yesterday at the Ondo State secretariat in Akure, as protesting commercial motorcyclists, also known as Okada riders chased out the state Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Nicholas Tofowomon, from his office. The Okada riders, who stormed […]

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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 […]

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Boko Haram Plotting To Bomb VIPs’ Houses – Osinbajo

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday alleged that Boko Haram had hatched a plot to use refuse collectors to bomb houses of very important personalities (VIPs) in the North-East Osinbajo, who is chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC), raised the […]

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CJN bars politicians from his residence, office

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Apparently to stave off pressure over electoral disputes, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmood Mohammed, has banned politicians from his residence. His security detail from the Department of State Service (DSS) and police orderly will henceforth be part […]

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Gunmen Kidnap 92-Yr-Old Monarch In Bayelsa

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Residents rose in protest as 92-year-old paramount ruler of Tombia community the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, HRH Christian Otobotekere, was on Thursday kidnapped by about five heavily armed men. The kidnap triggered protest on the rising incidence […]

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OKOGIE TO NIGERIANS: Be patient with Buhari

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CATHOLIC Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie has appealed to Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari ample opportunity to study the situation of things before embarking on his avowed crusade against corruption and insecurity. He also argued that […]

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I want killers of my husband punished – wife of APC chieftain

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WHEN Daramola Omoshalewa left home in the afternoon of Thursday last week, little did he know that it was the last time he was setting foot on his Festac Town home in Lagos. The 45-year-old Assistant Treasurer of the All […]

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Policeman sentenced to 6years in jail for manslaughter

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A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a police corporal, Abang Okon, to six years imprisonment for unlawful killing of one Olalekan Ajayi . Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya imposed the jail term on Okon after he pleaded guilty […]