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Scam Alert: NNPC disclaims fake 50th-anniversary quiz contest

Scam Alert: NNPC disclaims fake 50th-anniversary quiz contest

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday disowned a fake quiz competition trending online which claimed to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Malam Garba Muhammad, made this known in a statement. ALSO READ: COVID-19: Kaduna insists on facemasks, gives October deadline “In the purported quiz contest, […]

One year after #EndSARs protest, over 300 still in detention

One year after #EndSARs protest, over 300 still in detention

Nigerians in general and the nation’s security agencies in particular, will not forget in a hurry, the violent twist that characterised the #EndSARS protests, last October, in which 22 policemen were killed across the country, scores injured and several others left in life threatening conditions by rampaging hoodlums that hijacked the peaceful protest.

Police arrest 3 armed robbery suspects in Ogun

Police arrest 3 armed robbery suspects in Ogun

The Police Command in Ogun on Tuesday said it arrested three armed robbery suspects; Daniel Okereke, Henry Osagwe and Wisdom Aruba, who had been terrorising Mowe area of the state. Police Spokesman in Ogun, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement issued in Abeokuta, Ogun, that the suspected robbers were arrested at 10 p.m. on […]

EndSARS: Panel orders independent DNA test to ascertain missing child’s biological mother

EndSARS: Panel orders independent DNA test to ascertain missing child’s biological mother

The National Human Rights’ Commission’s (NHRC) independent investigative panel on the defunct SARS and other police units in the country, on Monday, ordered that an independent doctor be brought to ascertain the DNA of a boy who allegedly disappeared during the EndSars protests. The panel chairman, Justice Suleiman Galadima (Rtd), gave the order at the […]

Woman gives birth to quadruplets in Badagry

Woman gives birth to quadruplets in Badagry

A 28-year-old unemployed woman, Mrs Mariam Akinkitan, has given birth to a set of quadruplets in Badagry, Lagos State. Dr Dauda Bioku, Chief Medical Director, Ajara Medical Centre, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry that the quadruplets – three females and one male – were delivered safely on Friday. “She has already delivered […]