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Two weeks to the March 19 legislative rerun in Rivers State, masked gunmen at 9 pm on Saturday, beheaded a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Franklin Obi, and killed his wife and 18-year-old son, Bestman. The gunmen took away the head of Franklin. After shooting him dead, they severed his head and disappeared. The killings took place at ...
Investigation
March, 2016
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7 March
Abducted 3 Lagosgirls Rescued ..The 3 Major Factors That Made It Possible
A huge public outcry, pressure on security agents and intelligence policing are three factors responsible for the rescue of three female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary in Ikorodu, Lagos State. The girls — Timilehin Olosa, Tofunmi Popoola and Deborah Akinayo — were kidnapped by gunmen on Monday on their school premises. It was gathered that the public outcry prompted ...
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5 March
How Ecobank ex-staff Defraud Customer Of N11m
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Igbosere has heard how a former staff of Ecobank plc, Charles Ebor 39, allegedly transferred N11million belonging to customers into his son’s account. The defendant(pictured) is facing a four count charge bordering on conspiracy, felony, conversion and obtaining preferred against him by the police. Ebor who was a relationship officer at Eco Bank, and ...
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4 March
NCC wants media to familiarise with Cybercrime Act 2015
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged the media to familiarise itself with the contents of the Cybercrime Act as it affected practice of the profession. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, gave the advice in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday. Danbatta said that familiarising with the ...
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4 March
MILE 12 MAYHEM: 2 Schoolboys Beheaded ,25 Houses Burnt..2 Okada Riders Started It All
Blazing anger of an Okada rider ,Hausa by tribe,when a fellow Yoruba Okada rider was scolding him in English ,which fuelled his anger the more,and then drew a dagger to kill is basically responsible for the Bloody clashes in the Mile 12, Ketu area of Lagos State on Thursday. It left no fewer than 10 persons dead and about 100 ...
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3 March
Ese Opens Up On Her Travails With Yinusa
Ese Oruru ,the abducted girl has reveal details in an interview,,she said…;1. Asked how and why she followed Yinusa Inuwa to Kano, she said: “I just followed him. I don’t know how I followed him.” 2. On people’s belief that she deliberately absconded with the man, Miss Oruru retorted: “I know that we used to play with all of them, ...
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3 March
Another 14yr Old Girl Abducted,Sighted In Sultan of Sokoto Palace
Emboldened by the story of Ese,relations of another missing 14-year-old girl, Patience Paul, have alleged that the primary six pupil of Mohammed Zako Model Primary School, Sokoto, may have been abducted and housed at the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto. Father of the girl, Mr. Paul Adaji, an indigene of Ochobo in Ohimini Local Government Area of Benue State, ...
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3 March
SHELL Gets 2 Fresh Lawsuits In London Court That Awarded Her £55m Damages
Royal Dutch Shell, is facing fresh environmental claims in the London High Court from two Nigerian communities who alleged that they had suffered from repeated large-scale oil spills from the company’s pipelines in the Niger Delta. The two separate lawsuits were filed on Wednesday, with Leigh Day representing the communities after winning an unprecedented £55m in damages from Shell in ...
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3 March
Fuel Scarcity ‘ll Be Over By Weekend- NNPC, Marketers
Petroleum products’ marketers said on Wednesday that loading of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) had improved in some depots in Lagos The National Operation Controller, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Mike Osatuyi, said, “There is an improvement of discharge. They are discharging right now at Nipco; they have fuel in Folawiyo; they have in Capital Oil; and MRS and ...
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1 March
NNPC Panics Over Lagos Fuel Scarcity,State Supply Increased From 245 To 295 Trucks Daily
The Independent Petroleum Marketers of Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has blamed fresh nationwide fuel scarcity on unavailability of petrol for the marketers to load from the petrol depots. Its Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Dankigari,said that members of the association have 8,000 tickets pending that it has not been able to load. He said over the past few weeks, private depots ...
