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Gunmen have abducted a university lecturer and a staff of a media organisation in Calabar, Cross River State. The victims – Dr. David Ugwu, an Associate Professor with the University of Calabar, was abducted on Friday evening, while Mr. Morris Archibong, a staff of Cross River Newspaper Corporation, was kidnapped on Saturday. An eyewitness, Mrs.
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The Osun government on Monday described the face-off between the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi and the Agbowu of Ogbaagbaa, Oba Dhikrulahi Akinropo, as unfortunate and avoidable. The Oluwo had reportedly assaulted Akinropo during a peace meeting at the office of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 11, Bashir Makama, on
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Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja THE Presidency on Monday dismissed as fake the report that President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to travel to the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Austria on a private visit. The Presidency in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, described the purported
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Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS), Abdullahi Inde Dikko, following his repeated failure to show up for his fraud trial. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, who gave the directive, noted that the erstwhile Customs
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Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said on Monday its fighter aircraft had destroyed an Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) training camp on the Lake Chad fringes, killing several terrorists. The Director of NAF Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. He
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A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), said on Sunday, the Presidency lacked the power to stop people from protesting alleged poor handling of the country’s security challenges by the military. The Presidency had on Saturday accused some opposition politicians of mobilizing Nigerians to hold protests against the service chiefs over growing insecurity in the
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The Special Strike Force on Social Miscreants, inaugurated by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has arrested the leader of Aiye Confraternity in Ikorodu, Sikiru Samuel. The spokesman of the state police command, Bala Elkana, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. According to him, the 24-year-old Samuel, popularly known as “Samora,” was
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The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said eight shops were destroyed by a fire outbreak in Apongbon Under Bridge Market in Lagos Island on Sunday. Oke-Osanyintolu told journalists at the scene of the incident that the incident occurred at about after 10 a.m. on Sunday, saying the cause
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Femi Aribisala When I was a Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, I had a Director who was boastful. He liked to drop names. He would tell you he spent the weekend playing golf with this General, or that he had just finished talking on the phone to that Managing
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The Katsina State Police Command on Saturday evening confirmed the arrest of a middle-aged man in connection with Friday’s attacks on two Katsina villages. Bandits had on Friday killed at least 30 people in Tsauwa and Dankar villages in Batsari local government area of the state. The marauders also burnt several houses and animals during
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