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The police in Ebonyi State on Monday arrested a 24-year-old man, Obinna Omeike, over armed robbery in the state. The suspect and his gang members, it was gathered, allegedly robbed passengers on the Amasiri-Oso-Okigwe Highway, in the Afikpo South Local Government Area of the state, penultimate Friday. The suspects reportedly made away with victims’ goods and snatched the bus they ...
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February, 2021
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24 February
Military came to Orlu on my invitation– Uzodimma
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, on Tuesday justified the recent military invasion of some parts of Orsu and Orlu local government areas of his state despite the criticisms that trailed the operation. Uzodimma spoke in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after a meeting he had with the President, Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A reporter had sought ...
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24 February
IPOB taunts Army :You’re ill-equipped
The Indigenous People of Biafra on Tuesday boasted that the Nigerian soldiers had no such training that could enable them to arrest its security operatives, the Eastern Security Network. IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, stated this in a statement. While describing the Nigerian soldiers as inferior in training compared to ESN operatives, IPOB said it was a blatant ...
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24 February
FG To Introduce Tollgates On 12 Highways (full List)
This information is contained in a document, which was obtained, yesterday, from the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in Abuja. The 12 highways to be concessioned under the Ministry’s “Highway Management Development Initiative”, HMDI, are: Benin-Asaba, Abuja-Lokoja, Kano-Katsina, Onitsha-Owerri, Shagamu-Benin and Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga. Others are: Kano-Shuari, Potiskum-Damaturu, Lokoja-Benin, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Ilorin-Jebba, Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta and Lagos-Badagry-Seme Border. This is is a direct ...
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24 February
Tiger Woods escapes death, suffers multiple leg injuries
Tiger Woods suffered serious injuries to both legs as his car flew off the road Tuesday near Los Angeles in a crash he was “very fortunate” to survive, law enforcement officials who found the U.S. golf legend said. Woods did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the early-morning incident, and underwent surgery after the ...
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24 February
Ghana to receive world’s first doses of free Covax vaccines -UNICEF
Ghana is scheduled to receive Wednesday the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax, a World Health Organization-backed effort to procure and distribute inoculations for free to poor countries. “These 600,000 Covax vaccines are part of an initial tranche of deliveries of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine licensed to the Serum Institute of India, which represent part of the first ...
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24 February
Rocket hits, kills boys playing football, others in Maiduguri
Thirteen persons were killed and over 40 injured in rocket attack on Maiduguri by suspected Boko Haram members. As at the time of filing the report, a team of military, civilian JTF and humanitarian workers were still combing the town for corpses even as the injured were assisted to hospital. The major casualties were recorded at a football field in ...
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24 February
Makinde, Fayose’s face-off deepens, parallel PDP caucuses meet
The hostility between Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and former Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State appears to be getting hotter ahead of the zonal congress of the South-West People Democratic Party holding soon. According to a statement by Makinde’s Chief Press Secretary, Taiwo Adisa, the governor on Tuesday led former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; Segun Oni ...
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24 February
Man stabs neighbour to death with broken bottle
A man, Sunday Amaefula, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing one Chibuike Nwanne to death with a broken bottle in the Mafoluku area of Oshodi. Nwanne and his wife returned home from a party when an argument ensued between him and Amaefula’s brother, Ifeanyi Emmanuel. The argument was said to have degenerated ...
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24 February
Jonathan meets 15 Gambian party leaders in Abuja
Ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, is hosting a three-day brainstorming session with leaders of the 15 main political parties from Gambia, as part of efforts to build a consensus around making a new constitution for the country. The session which is being held in Abuja, is also with the support of the leadership of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. ...
