Year: 2025
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Recently Released Female Corps Member Narrates Ordeals in The Hand of Kidnappers
Punch Newspaper A National Youth Service Corps member, Rofiat Lawal, who was abducted along the Benin-Ore Expressway last Tuesday, has disclosed that her abductors threatened to force her into marriage and take her to Sokoto if her family refused to pay a ransom. This is just as she narrated that one of the abductors, who…
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Rivers: Anxiety as Fubara, Loyalists Weigh Options
Vanguard News It is exactly 16 months since the political crisis broke out in Rivers State between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike. For one year and four months, Rivers, prided as the hub of West African oil and gas, has been embroiled in a war of attrition over the control of…
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Corps Members knock FG over unpaid N77k allowance
Punch Newspaper Members of the National Youth Service Corps have expressed their disapproval of the Federal Government’s persistent failure to implement the payment of the N77,000 allowance. The Federal Government had approved an increase in the corps members’ monthly allowance from N33,000 to N77,000, effective July 2024. In the same year, the Director-General of the…
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Why Supreme Court Sacked Rivers LG Chairmen, Restored Pro-Wike Lawmakers
Vanguard News The Supreme Court dealt a heavy blow to Governor Siminalaye Fubara of Rivers State on Friday, as it reinstated the judgement that barred the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Accountant General of the Federation, from releasing statutory monthly allocations to the state. The apex court, in another judgement, equally nullified the…
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Just in: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestine, Others Declare Saturday 1st of #Ramadan2025
As Muslims across the world prepare to observe 2025 Ramadan, some Muslim countries in the world have officially announced the sighting of the Cresent which marks the end of Shaabaan and equally marks the commencement of Ramadan the following day. Based on findings by Vreporters.com on Friday, Muslim community in New Zealand is the first…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Sacks Rivers Local Government Chairmen
The local government election conducted on the 5th of October 2024 by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission has been declared invalid by the Supreme Court. In a judgment delivered by Justice Jamilu Tukur, the court declared the election invalid for grossly violating the Electoral Act. Reading the judgement, Justice Tukur said the action of…
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Just in: Obasa storms Lagos Assembly complex with armed police, Civil Defence
Vanguard News Confusion has engulfed the Lagos State House of Assembly as Mudashiru Obasa, the ousted Speaker, stormed the complex on Thursday, allegedly intending to resume duty. According to sources, Obasa arrived at the Assembly around 11:30 AM, accompanied by heavily armed police officers and civil defence personnel. The development has thrown the Assembly into…
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Ramadan: Sultan Issues Directive To Muslims
The Sultan of Sokoto and President General NSCIA, Alhaji, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has directed all Muslims in the country to start looking out for the new moon of Ramadan 1446AH on Friday and report its sighting to the nearest District or Village head for onward communication. A statement in Sokoto on Thursday by the Sultanate…
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Again, Dangote Refinery Crashes Petrol Price
Daily Trust Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced a reduction in the ex-depot (gantry) price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly referred to as petrol, by N65.00, from N890 to N825 per litre, effective from 27th February 2025. Under the new arrangement, buyers in Lagos would purchase fuel at N860 per litre at MRS outlets. The…
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Buhari, El-Rufai, Amaechi Absent As APC Holds NEC Meeting
Channels TV Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have converged at the National Secretariat of the party for its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in the nation’s capital, Abuja. All roads leading to the venue of the meeting on Blantyre Street were cordoned off by a combined team of armed security men including…