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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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February, 2021
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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. ...
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24 February
Outcry in Kano, as WASSCE withholds 70,000 results over debt
WAEC has refused to release the results of more than 70,000 candidates sponsored by the Kano State Government following the inability of the government to settle the registration fees of the affected candidates. A reliable source at the WAEC headquarters in Kano on Tuesday revealed that the state government had yet to pay the outstanding registration fees running into millions ...
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24 February
Sen Adeyemi has mental illness – Abia Gov Ikpeazu
In a direct response to Adeyemi’s outburst, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Okozie Ikpeazu, Mr. Onyebuchi Ememanka, in a statement, in Umuahia, on Tuesday said, “Our view is that the Senator is either suffering from a protracted case of mental illness or is battling with occasional fits of schizophrenia which manifests in making careless, dishonourable, unrelated and incoherent statements”. ...
