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Missing Abuja undergraduate found dead, police investigate

1 year ago1534 min

After being reported missing on September 11, Blessing Karami, an undergraduate student at the National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, was found dead in the woods near Karimo. The police stated that their main goal is to investigate Miss Karami’s death thoroughly and impartially. The deceased was reported missing after leaving her Abuja workplace in Garki before closing time on September 11, 2023, according to ProbitasNews. Our correspondent can confirm that the Divisional Police Headquarters,...

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Osun laughs off lawyer’s threat on unpaid allowances for judges.

1 year ago1496 min

In response to Mr. Mutalubi Adebayo, SAN, a lawyer located in Ibadan, the Osun State administration has asked him to desist from pursuing legal action against Governor Ademola Adeleke and the administration over the unpaid allowances of judges employed in the state, calling on the lawyer to refrain from “interloping activism.” Adeleke was given a 10-day ultimatum by Adebayo on Thursday to pay the arrears of allowances owing to retired and active state judges, failing...

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News

Court jails teenager 12 months for Internet fraud

1 year ago1552 min

The Ogun State Government has begun the construction of 200 dwelling units in the state’s Iperu, Ikenne Local Government. The housing development, which is aimed at low and middle-income clientele, will have 2-bedroom expandable bungalows. The Special Adviser on Housing, Jagunmolu Omoniyi, broke the news on Thursday via the state government’s X (previously Twitter) profile. According to Omoniyi, the move will increase the state’s housing stock by offering housing solutions to the growing Remo Zone...

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News

Adeleke receives a 10-day ultimatum to pay judges’ allowances or faces legal action

1 year ago1573 min

Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, has been given ten days by Ibadan-based attorney Mutalubi Adebayo, SAN, to make up the allowance arrears owing to retired and active judges in the state or risk legal action. According to a statement signed by Adebayo on Thursday, September 21, which our correspondent in Osogbo was able to get, if Adeleke does not comply with the request by September 30, legal action would be brought on October...

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Politics

Enugu Governorship Tribunal Bars Lawyers, Journalists, Others at Petition Against Governor Mbah’s Election

1 year ago1564 min

Chijioke Edeoga of the Labour Party has filed a petition with the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Enugu challenging the election of Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Lawyers, party supporters, and some journalists have been prevented from entering the Enugu State High Court Complex during this time. The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal is currently sitting in Enugu and is expected to hand down its decision shortly. The metropolitan area of Enugu is...

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Obi won’t get LP ticket 2027, Apapa faction vows

1 year ago1485 min

The Labour Party’s Lamidi Apapa faction has recommended the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to seek another political platform to pursue its presidential dream ahead of the 2027 polls. The Apapa group, whose legitimacy was just confirmed by the Edo Division of the Court of Appeal, said that it had begun looking for a new presidential candidate ahead of the 2027 election. Abayomi Arabambi, the faction’s spokesman, confirmed this in an exclusive interview on...

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Imo killings: Soldiers burn buildings, residents flee for their lives

1 year ago1599 min

Following the reported invasion of the community and property devastation by security personnel believed to be soldiers, residents of Oriendu in Umualumaku Umueze in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area in Imo State are currently living in fear for their lives. The individuals with guns broke into the village one day after killing and setting two patrol vehicles in the neighbourhood on fire on Tuesday, along with several soldiers, police officers, and members of the...

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Police declare 24-hour curfew as tribunal sacks Kano gov

1 year ago1809 min

Wednesday, in response to the dismissal of Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigerian People’s Party by the state’s Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, the state administration imposed a 24-hour curfew in order to prevent a breakdown in law and order. As soon as the All Progressives Congress candidate, Nasir Gawuna, was declared the winner of the state’s March 2023 gubernatorial election by the three-member election tribunal presided over by Justice Oluyemi Akintan-Osadebay...

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President Tinubu Addresses 78th United Nations General Assembly; Advocates Universal Sanction by UN Nations for their Companies, Persons Illegally Smuggling Arms, Minerals In, Out of Africa

1 year ago1887 min

In his address to the 78th United Nations General Assembly, President Tinubu called for the UN to universally sanction any individuals or companies that smuggle weapons or minerals into or out of Africa. The time is now for UN member states to demonstrate, with their actions, that they mean what they say regarding the crackdown on terrorism financing, economic sabotage, and illicit mineral & arms smuggling in the developing world, according to President Bola Tinubu,...

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Mompha criticizes EFCC, Ikeja High Court, calling Justice Mojisola Dada “the most useless judge.”

1 year ago1854 min

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) report on him and his iPhone being used for fraudulent activities was admitted as evidence in a Lagos Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday, September 18. This prompted a response from Nigerian Instagram celebrity Ismaila Mustapha, better known by his stage name Mompha, who is based in Dubai. According to Naija News, there have been online rumors that Mojisola Dada, the trial judge, admitted the report during...

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