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Adamawa Commissioner of Environment ROBBED

The Adamawa State Commissioner of Environment, Muhammed Sadiq, has been robbed The Adamawa State Police Command has now apprehended four people for allegedly attacking the Commissioner and robbing him of his official vehicle and other valuables. It also recovered the ...

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Borno police arrest two for having se.x inside church

The police in Borno State have arrested two people for having se.x inside the All Saints Protestant Church, Police College, Maiduguri The two, identified as Kaka Ali Umar of Damboa Road and Khadija Adam of Ngomari area, Maiduguri, were arrested in ...

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Buhari’s signature forged to move $6.2m from CBN – Ex-SGF

  The immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said on Tuesday that $6.2m was released from the Central Bank of Nigeria in February 2023 using a forged document. The money, he said, was released for foreign observers ...

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Dead Indian woman comes back to life before cremation

A woman thought to be dead woke up at the funeral parlour moments before she was cremated Days earlier, 52-year-old Bujji Aamm from Berhampur, India, had been severely burnt in a fire at home on February 1. She was taken ...

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Lady, 19, stabs husband to death over s3x

A lady, Aisha Aliyu, has allegedly killed her husband, Idris Ahmadu over a disagreement over s3x in Nasarawa Village, Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State. Aisha, 19, and her husband, 24 had been in marriage for only two months before the ...

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Content creators to start paying taxes

The Corporate Affairs Commission has urged social media content creators, Instagram users, and TikTok users with large followers to register their businesses with the commission in accordance with the Company and Allied Matters Act 2020. This is coming amidst alleged plans by ...

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Nigerian Breweries announces increase in price of beer

Nigerian Breweries (NB) Plc has announced an upward review in the prices of some products in its stock-keeping units (SKUs) to mitigate the impact of rising cost of input. The company, in a leaked memo to customers, said the price adjustments ...

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EFCC arrests suspected currency racketeer in Uyo

Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Simon Bassey Idio for currency racketeering in Uyo The 59-year old ‘Naira Trader’ was arrested on Friday February 9, 2024, at the Ibom Tropicana Mall , ...

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Court jails ‘Mama Boko Haram’, two others for N40m fraud

Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, on Monday, convicted and sentenced the trio of Aisha Alkali Wakil ( a.k.a Mama Boko Haram) Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade to ten years imprisonment The ...

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Man bags life sentence for defiling his friend’s 12-year-old daughter

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday, sentenced a 53-year-old rubber trader, Kenneth Mba, to life imprisonment for defiling a friend’s 12-year-old daughter. Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgement, held that the prosecution proved the charge of defilement ...

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UK to sign agreement deal enabling British lawyers practise in Nigeria

The United Kingdom will today sign a new deal with Nigeria to boost trade, investments and unlock new opportunities in various sectors. This was disclosed in a statement by the UK’s department of Business and Trade on Tuesday. According to ...

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16 nu.de videos found in suspended UNICAL dean’s phone

16 nu.de videos found in suspended UNICAL dean’s phone A forensic and intelligence analyst with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Bwaigu Fungo, said the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar, Cyril ...

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Outages: FG plans sanctions for non-performing Discos

  Power distribution companies that are performing below stipulated standards in the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry are going to lose 50 per cent of their operating expenditures, the Federal Government declared on Monday. It made the declaration through the Nigerian ...

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NAFDAC insists on sachet alcohol ban, hoodlums attack officials

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, on Monday, said there was no going back on the ban of the importation, manufacture, distribution, sale, and use of alcoholic beverages in sachets, PET, and glass bottles of ...

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Suspected IPOB members attack Imo prison, k!lls police officer, frees inmates

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday, attacked Okigwe Correctional Farm Settlement in Imo State, killed a police officer and freed seven inmates. It was gathered the attackers also abducted the correctional service officer in charge of the settlement shortly ...

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Wigwe: FG, US begin talks as officials test copter’s wreckage

  The Federal Government on Monday confirmed it had begun talks with the government of United States of America on the ongoing investigation of a chopper crash that claimed the lives of the Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, ...

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Gunmen kill popular Imo Lawyer, Victor Onwubiko

Gunmen have k!lled a popular Imo Lawyer, Victor Onwubiko Victor was a legal practitioner based in Imo State but resident in Uturu, Abia State. The incident reportedly occurred on Saturday night while the lawyer was returning to Abia State University, Uturu, where ...

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BREAKING: Access Holdings names Bolaji Agbede as acting CEO

  Access Holdings Plc on Monday announced the appointment of Ms. Bolaji Agbede as the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer. This follows the death of its former Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Herbert Wigwe. Wigwe died in a helicopter crash alongside his ...

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Photos: Aliko Dangote, Dapo Abiodun, Atedo Peterside, others visit Herbert Wigwe’s parents

Aliko Dangote, Dapo Abiodun, Atedo Peterside, others visit Herbert Wigwe’s parents Ogun stare Governor, Dapo Abiodun, billionaire Aliko Dangote, former CEO of Access Bank, Aig Imokhuede, Pat Utomi, Atedo Peterside, and others have paid late Access Holdings CEO, Herbert Wigwe’s parents a ...

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Naira exchanges at N1,534 to dollar at official market

The naira yesterday exchanged at N1,534.39 to dollar at the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM) – the official market The exchange rate fell to N1,490 to dollar at the parallel market with traders expecting further weakness in the coming days ...

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Bomb k!lls one, wounds 40 in Cameroon

A homemade bomb killed one person and wounded dozens of others in western Cameroon Sunday, an attack the authorities said may have been carried out by anglophone separatists. The blast came two hours after a parade of school children celebrating Youth Day had ...

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Nigeria’s predicaments require spiritual solutions – Adeboye

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye on Sunday stated that spiritual solutions are required to address the nation’s security and socio-economic problems The cleric stated that although Nigeria’s political authorities seemed to have ...

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