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Ooni’s Wife Offers Scholarship To Newly Born #EndSars Protester’s Baby, Elijah
The baby of the teenager arrested during the EndSARS protest in Akure was christened on Wednesday, with the wife of Ooni of Ife, Olori Naomi Ogunwusi, offering the baby scholarship to secondary school level. Apart from the scholarship, Olori Ogunwusi also presented the new baby and the mother food items, toiletries and baby items, with…
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Police Inspector Arrested Over Alleged Gun running, Renting Rifles To Criminals
The Cross River State Police command has arrested one of its personnel, Inspector Nathaniel Manasseh, over alleged gunrunning and renting his riffles to notorious criminals. The Inspector, who was paraded alongside other suspects at the state police headquarters in Diamond Hill, Calabar, on Tuesday, June 22, was involved in gunrunning in Cross River and Imo…
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Twitter Ban: FG Replies ECOWAS Court
The Federal Government has filed objection against the ruling of the ECOWAS Court of Justice on the Twitter Ban in Nigeria, stating that the ‘subject matter of the suit is not for the enforcement of any human rights recognised by the court’. Recall that on Tuesday, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, in its ruling,…
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ECOWAS Court Restrains FG From Prosecuting Twitter Users
The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the Plaintiffs and other…
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After 9 years of Litigation, Ex-Lawmaker Sentenced To 7 Years Imprisonment
After nine years of Litigation, a federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced Farouk Lawan, former chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, to seven years imprisonment over the $3 million bribery charges preferred against him by the Nigerian government. Lawan, as the Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad…
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774,000 Jobs: FG Issues Fresh Order To Banks
The federal government on Monday ordered banks to immediately pay all the participants of the Extended Special Public Works (ESPW) programme. The banks include Fidelity, UBA, Heritage, Zenith, Access, FCMB and Yobe Micro Finance. Daily Trust had on Thursday, June 17, exclusively reported that thousands of the participants were yet to be paid their stipend…
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Facebook Post: Final Year Student Reveals Plan To Drag Varsity To Court Over Expulsion
A final year student of the Akwa Ibom State University, Ekpo Iniobong, has revealed his plan to drag the institution to court over his suspension and subsequent expulsion. According to Punch Metro, the final year student of the Department of Agricultural Engineering was first suspended by the management in September 2020 and then expelled via…
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President Buhari Appoints George As EFCC Secretary, Names Board Members
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of George AbangEkpungu as the Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The appointment is contained in a statement signed on Monday by the spokesperson of the Office of Attorney General of the Federation and Ministery of Justice, Umar Jibrila Gwandu, in Abuja. According to the…
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SFU Grilled FUOYE VC Over Alleged Fraud
The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Oye (FUOYE), Ekiti State, Prof Abayomi Sunday Fasina, was on Thursday grilled by agents of the police’s Special Fraud Unit (SFU) on fraud allegations but was later granted administrative bail, Daily Sun has learnt. SFU operatives had reportedly stormed the FUOYE campus with a warrant for the arrest…
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13-year-old Son Allegedly Hacked Father To Death in Edo
A 13-year-old boy identified as Abubakar has allegedly hacked his father, Osariakhi Oronsaye, 79, to death in Edo State. It was gathered that the incident happened at Egbon Estate in Evbuotubu, Benin City on Sunday, June 20. According to Nigerian Tribune, the septuagenarian had earlier reported his son to the Evbuotubu Police Station a week…