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- June 13, 2024
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NNPP: Court order you procured too weak to protect you – Oginni blasts Kwankwaso
The National Secretary of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Oginni Olaposi Sunday, has told the party’s Presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso that the court order he procured is too weak to protect him from EFCC’s invitation, arrest and prosecution. Oginni, who made this statement while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State, said the magnitude of unprecedented corruption by successive governments and politicians in Nigeria has made nonsense of the nation’s…
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- June 13, 2024
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Court sentences pastor to life imprisonment for sedating, defiling minor
The High Court of Ekiti State, sitting in Ado Ekiti and presided over by Justice O.I.O Ogunyemi on Thursday convicted and sentenced to Life imprisonment a pastor of Winner Chapel Church situated at Omuo- Ekiti, Enoch Gbinyiam on a lone count offence of Rape of a minor. The survivor who is the daughter of one of his church members was said to have been raped by the pastor in one of her visits to the vicarage.…
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- June 13, 2024
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Suspects confess to abducting boy with toy gun, killing him after collecting N152k
Two young men arrested by the Adamawa State Police Command for kidnaping and killing a six-year-old boy have confessed to the act. They told the police how they abducted the boy using what looked like a gun, collected N152,000 from the father, and went ahead to kill the boy. The suspects, Husseini Suleiman, 21 and Muktar Mohammed, 20, said they had made some woods into a toy gun with which they frightened the household into letting…
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- June 13, 2024
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Troops kill notorious terrorists, others along Kaduna-Katsina border
Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed an infamous terrorist Buharin Yadi, one of the alleged deadliest bandit leaders terrorizing Northern Nigeria in the last decade. Overseeing Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, Samuel Aruwan, said on Thursday that the troops of Sector 6 Operation Whirl Punch rained down fire on the kingpin known as Buhari Alhaji Halidu (alias Buharin Yadi) and his cohorts, terminating their spell of terror. “Halidu was neutralized…
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- June 13, 2024
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NSCDC denies kidnapping man over land dispute with kinsman in Ebonyi
The Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has denied the news making the rounds that its operative abducted a native of Amaedim Ngwogwo community in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some national dailies (NOT DAILY POST) had reported that the NSCDC operatives abducted Mr Innocent Orji, following a land dispute in the community. However, Mr Elijah Willie, State Commandant of the Corps, said in Abakaliki, on…
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- June 13, 2024
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Emirship tussle: FHC assumed jurisdiction against Supreme Court precedent – Odinkalu
Ex-Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, has said that the declaration of jurisdictional powers by a Federal High Court over the Emirship tussle in Kano State goes against the precedent of the Supreme Court. Odinkalu highlighted that the Supreme Court precedent had existed since 1988. “BREAKING: @FederalHigh in Kano has decided that it has jurisdiction over the matter of the Emirship of Kano. Strictly speaking, that overrules @SupremeCourtNg precedent that has…
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- June 13, 2024
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Wole Soyinka: Muslims waiting for you in 2027 – Omokri to Peter Obi
Social critic, Reno Omokri has warned the former Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi that Muslims are waiting for him, ahead of the 2027 elections. Omokri was reacting to Obi’s remark against Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka over the issue of disrespect. The former Anambra State governor had said he would like the younger generations to respect him when he is Soyinka’s age. His comment was an aftermath of Soyinka’s claim that Obi was unfit to…
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- June 13, 2024
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Police apprehend electricity transformer cable vandal in Osun
Operatives of the Osun State Police Command have apprehended a transformer vandal identified as Yusuf Adamu. According to information obtained from the Osun Command Police Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola on Thursday, the suspect, Adamu was apprehended on Sunday, June 2, 2024 at about 11:45pm. Opalola said, “The incident happened on 02/06/2024 at about 11:45pm. Informations was received by operatives of Police Divisional Headquarters ‘B’ Division Ede that a young man later identified as Yusuf Adamu…
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- June 13, 2024
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Fuel Smuggling: Customs intercepts 23,925 litres of PMS in Ogun
National Coordinator, Special Operation of the Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Hussein Ejibunu, said the command has intercepted 23,925 litres of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol in Ogun State. Comptroller Ejibunu, stated this on Thursday while addressing newsmen at the Commands headquarters in Abeokuta, on the two weeks’ activities of ‘Operation Whirlwind team. He explained that the petrol intended for smuggling out of the country was intercepted alongside the vehicles while the fuel stations…
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- June 13, 2024
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BREAKING: Kano: Court assumes jurisdiction to hear Bayero’s rights violation suit
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, has ruled that it has the jurisdiction to preside over the case of human rights violation brought by deposed Kano Emir, Aminu Ado Bayero, and a senior councillor, Aminu Babba DanAgundi, following the reinstatement of Emir Mohammadu Sanusi II. The court had granted an ex-parte order stopping Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano from reinstating Sanusi, pending the determination of a substantive suit filed against his reinstatement. The order…
