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By David Odama An aggrieved widow, Mrs Mary Aweh Agbor has cried out over alleged unlawful and forceful ejection of her family from the Naval Barrack by a retinue of armed military personnel. Mrs Mary, a wife of late Master Warrant Officer (MWO) in the Nigerian Navy, Joseph Agbor is challenging the brutal use of
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A widow, Loveth Uloko, on Tuesday prayed the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel to order the police to pay her N500 million as compensation for the death of her husband, Abraham, Uloko, in the hands of SARS. The NHRC independent panel is investigating alleged violations of rights by the disbanded SARS and other police units Uloko stated this, on
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A housewife Ramatu Idris of Unguwar Malam Lamu, Tankarau, Dutsen Abba Ward in Zaria Local Government Area (LGA), has narrated how bandits made her a widow barely a month after her marriage with late Yusuf Suleiman. Idris told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday that the incident happened on Feb. 4, at about
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•Accuses in-laws of confiscating late husband’s property, company •Police recover deceased’s bank cheques, vehicles from relatives By Evelyn Usman She created a scene, as she stood motionless in front of a building on 33 Owodumi street, off Liasu road in Lagos, with flashes of thoughts on how she had lived there with her late husband
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By Dennis Agbo Widow of a slain Basil Onwukwe, Mrs Loveline Onwukwe, from Amaeke-Oduma in Aninri local government area of Enugu state has cried out to law enforcement agencies, asking the authorities to bring to prosecution his husband’s alleged killer, from a nearby village. Mrs Onwukwe said that apart from the unbearable loss of the
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By Esther Onyegbula The once peaceful community of Ijegemo-Omilende in Ado-Odo area of Ogun state has been thrown into pandemonium following the death of two young men within the space of a week. According to residents of the community, they had to set up vigilante group in the community after they woke up to find
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By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan As the eighth-day Fidau prayer for former Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State was held in Ibadan yesterday, an Islamic Cleric, Sheik Muideen Ajani Bello, has said the widow of the deceased, Mrs Florence Ajimobi will have to observe the mandatory 130 days in widowhood. This came just as the
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By Anayo Okoli For centenarian widow, Mrs. Margret Onwuelo from Umuenem Otolo Nnewi, Nnewi North Council of Anambra State, life can never be the same again. This is because her home and life-long savings were destroyed by wicked land grabbers who demolished her house. Currently living at the mercy of neighbours, distraught Mrs. Margret Onwuelo
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WHILE President Muhammadu Buhari was reading his 58th independence anniversary speech to fellow Nigerians on October 1, 2018, there was dead silence in the Lagos home of one of the nation’s greatest assets, Apostle Hayford Ikponmwosa Alile, as the pioneer Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange was pronounced dead. He was 80 years old.
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ENUGU—A widow, Mrs. Ngozi Emeter has cried out to the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Adamu Mohammed, to come to her rescue from the hands of land speculators bent on depriving her of the land she genuinely bought from a family in Emene, Enugu.
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