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Supporters of a Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho clashed with operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS). A videothat has gone viral on social media with setting in Osogbo has indicated the clash happened on Saturday evening after the Yoruba Nation rally, which Igboho joined. A video indicated a middle-aged man who identified himself as Seun ...
May, 2021
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17 May
NLC begins strike in Kaduna today …see reasons
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Kaduna State Council, has dismissed as false, the claims by the state government that the union had mobilised mob to disrupt peace during the ongoing five-day warning strike. A statement by the state NLC Chairman, Mr Ayuba Suleiman on Sunday, assured workers and the general public of their commitment to maintain peace during the strike ...
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17 May
Couple arrested for starving 12-year -old girl (house help) for 8 mths
The police command in Sokoto State has rescued a 12-year-old girl, Joy Emmanuel, from solitary confinement. The girl was said to have been caged for eight months by her guardians identified as Emmanuel Basey and his wife Esther Emmanuel. Joy who was running errands for them was also said to have been denied food throughout the period of her confinement ...
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17 May
Exposed : Affairs with female staffers collapses Bill Gates’ marriage
Microsoft founder Bill Gates had an ‘inappropriate’ sexual relationship with a female staff member in 2000, and resigned while an investigation into the relationship was being investigated by the company board. The affair came to light after the Microsoft employee wrote to the board in 2019 detailing the affair – and allegedly asked that Gates’ estranged wife Melinda Gates, 56, ...
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15 May
Man wanted for $56m fraud, is no longer Buhari’s son-in-law – Presidency
The Presidency said on Friday Gimba Yau Kumo who has been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over alleged $65 million fraud in the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria is no longer President Muhammadu Buhari’s son-in-law. The Presidency said on Friday Gimba Yau Kumo who has been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices ...
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14 May
ICPC declares Buhari’s son-in-law, two others wanted for $65m fraud
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has declared Gimba Yau Kumo, son-in-law to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), wanted for alleged $65 million fraud. Kumo, a former Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank, got married to Buhari’s daughter in October 2016 in Daura, Katsina State. The commission in a notice published on its website said Kumo ...
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13 May
Herdsmen can’t continue moving cows from north to south on foot – Akeredolu
The Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Wednesday, explained why the forum placed a ban on open grazing. Akeredolu, who presided over the Asaba meeting of the governors on Wednesday, during an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, said the decision was not new. “It is not an entirely new issue; most of the governors ...
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13 May
Ondo varsity student commits suicide via sniper
The management of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State says it will investigate the reason behind the death of one its students identified as Feranmi Fasunle. Fasunle reportedly died as a result of the sniper she allegedly drank on Wednesday night. It was gathered that the 200-level student of the Department of Political Science at the varsity drank ...
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13 May
Ex-Chief of Defence Staff, Lt Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro is dead
A former Chief of Defence Staff, Lt Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro is dead. It was learnt that Dogonyaro who turned 80 in September 2020 died in Jos on Thursday morning after a brief illness. The former CDS was the officer who read the coup speech that ended the regime of Nigeria’s current President, Muhammadu Buhari, and brought General Ibrahim Babangida (Rtd) ...
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12 May
Nationwide Blackout As Power Grid Collapses Again !
On Tuesday, the peak power generation in Nigeria was 4,757MW while the lowest generation was 3,976MW. While 101,605 megawatts hour (MWH) energy was generated, consumers through the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) utilised 99,955MWH. However, by Wednesday afternoon, checks indicated that only five of the 11 DisCos had slight energy allocation while the six others had no energy to supply to ...
