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Watch As Community Banishes Man For Twenty Years Over Alleged Withcraft in Abia
Members of a community in Obohia Amuda Isuochi in the Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State have banished a man identified as Obioma Ubani for 20 years. In a video that has now gone viral, Obioma was accused of engaging in witchcraft and killing one Professor Chike Ubani. Dressed in Raffia palms popularly known…
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Strike: FG Addresses Protesting Polytechnic Students
The Federal Government of Nigeria has told the protesting students of Polytechnics that, the government should not be held not responsible for the protracted strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP). The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this in Abuja on Friday while addressing students of polytechnics across…
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ASUU Lost 30 Members To COVID-19, Prof. Ogunyemi
The president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, said that the union lost 30 of its members to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Ogunyemi made this known at the ongoing 21st ASUU National Delegates Conference/Official commissioning of ASUU-UNIZIK Secretariat held at the new Secretariat, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State. He…
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Exited N-Power Beneficiaries Fume Over Purported Payment of 5-Months Backlogs
A group of exited N-power Beneficiaries has expressed its utterly displeasure over a statement credited to Minister of humanitarian Affairs, Sadiyya Umar Farouq, that her Ministry has paid the five months backlogs owed over 14000 exited Npower Batch A and Batch B beneficiaries. The group in a statement issued by its spokesman, Aremu Ridwan Olalekan…
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President Buhari Wins 2021 Trophée Babacar Ndiaye Award
President Muhammadu Buhari has been named winner of the 2021 Great Builder Super Prize for Trophée Babacar Ndiaye, taking over from Abdel Fattah al-Sissi of Egypt, who won the 2020 prize. According to a statement from the African Development Bank, AfDB on Friday, MR Buhari was named winner during the inaugural Africa Road Builders Conference…
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Flash: Supreme Court Strikes Out Certificate Forgery Suit Against Obaseki
Supreme Court has just struck out a certificate forgery case against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state. The All Progressive Congress (APC) and one of its members, Williams Edobor have appealed a Court of Appeal Judgement which freed Obaseki of certificate forgery allegation. The apex court, in the judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim held…
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Saraki Reacts As Kwara Panel Recommends His Prosecution
A White Paper of a panel set up by the Kwara State government on allegations of unlawful sales of government properties from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2019, has recommended prosecution of former Governor Bukola Saraki, his successor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, and other former government officials named in alleged economic sabotage against the state through…
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Man Arrested For Allegedly Defiling Own Underage Daughters in Anambra
The Anambra State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has paraded 48-year old man over alleged defilement of his three underage daughters. The suspect, Thomas is a native of Igbo in Ikolo, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State. Mr Igbo, who lives in Enugwu-Ukwu, Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra state,…
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Opinion: Rendition by Proxy
In using the micro-state of Cape Verde as a front in its ideological war against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the United States has taken its politically motivated judicial overreach to a new level. The entire playbook from the start has all the hallmarks of moves to which the world has become accustomed in the…
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One Million Nigerians To Benefit From FG’s N30BN Conditional Cash Transfer
The Federal Government has said that about one million Urban Informal Workers have been captured and her expected to benefit from the sum of N30 billion Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) over the next six months. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq gave the hint in Abuja while declaring…
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