Month: December 2022
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Aisha Buhari Withdraws Case Against Twitter Critic, Aminu
Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari has withdrawn case against a final year student of the Federal University, Dutse, Aminu Adamu. The 24-year-old final year student was arrested by the police in Dutse for allegedly publishing a defamatory statement on his Twitter handle against Mrs Buhari. In the alleged offensive tweet, Adamu, who is…
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Worshiper Shot at Delta Mosque Narrates Experience
Daily Trust Muhammed Bagudu, one of the worshippers who was shot at a mosque in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, on Friday morning, has narrated how one of the presiding officials was abducted during the operation. Daily Trust had reported how gunmen invaded the mosque and shot 11 worshippers. Speaking with our…
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Labour Party Reacts To ‘Expulsion’ of Presidential Campaign DG, Doyin Okupe
National secretary of the Labour Party (LP), Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim has described the purported sack of the Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Doyin Okupe as null and void. Farouk at a press briefing held at the National headquarters of the party in Abuja said the party has processes to…
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FG Gives Breakdown of N625.43 billion Derivation Funds Distributed To 9 Oil-producing States
The Presidency has given a breakdown of how N625.43 billion 13 percent derivation fund, subsidy and SURE-P refunds were distributed to nine oil-producing states between 2021 and 2022. There has been controversy among Niger Delta governors since Nyesom Wike, their Rivers’ counterpart, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had released the funds. “Let me say it…
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Arsonists Set Another Palace Ablaze in Osun (Video)
A part of the Aree of Iree’s palace in Boripe North Local Council Area of Osun state, has been set alight by arsonists, Peoples Gazette learnt on Thursday. The latest incident is coming barely a few weeks after some hoodlums set the palace of Akirun of Ikirun in Ifelodun Local Council Area of the state…
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Labour Party Expels Presidential Campaign Council DG, Doyin Okupe
The Labour Party in Ogun State on Thursday expelled the Director General of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, over alleged non-financial membership status, high-handedness and financial recklessness. Okupe was expelled along 10 others members accused of breaching the party’s constitution. The state chairman of the party, Michael Ashade, disclosed this in Abeokuta, the…
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Man Reportedly Flogs Own 3-year-old Daughter To Death in Delta
A 25-year-old man, Godsgift Uweghwerhen, has been arrested for allegedly flogging his three-year-old daughter to death in Aladja community, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. He reportedly flogged the baby who was said to have been sick for sometime with a cane and inflicted bodily injuries on her. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect…
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Court Orders Arrest of Chief of Army Staff, General Yahaya
A High Court Sitting in Minna, the Niger State Capital, has issued a warrant of arrest on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Faruk Yahaya for contempt. Also to be arrested include Commandant Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, Major General Olugbenga Olabanji for a similar offense. The presiding judge, Justice Halima Abdulmalik said the…
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Final Year Student Stabs Friend To Death Over Disagreement in Bauchi
A final year student of Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education Kangere-Bauchi LGA, Bauchi State, Kamaluddeen Musa, has been arrested for killing his friend who was also a fellow student of the same school. The spokesperson of the Police Command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil in a statement on Wednesday stated that detectives attached to the…