January 2020

How Police Arrested Cultists Initiating Minors In Bayelsa

January 11, 2020 5:31 am
The Bayelsa State Police Command says it has arrested four suspected cultists, who allegedly initiated some minors into banned secret confraternity.

Spokesman for the command, SP Asinim Butswat, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that operatives of its anti-cult unit effected the arrest of the suspects on Friday.

He said the arrest followed credible information from residents of Okutukutu, a suburb in Yenagoa where the initiation took place.

Butswat said that at least three minors aged between 13 and 17, had so far been identified as new initiates.

“Following a tip off, operatives of Bayelsa State Police Command in collaboration

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Kaduna Explosion: DPR Recovers More Bodies Of 3 Victims

January 11, 2020 5:31 am
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Friday said a combined team of DPR, KEPA and other agencies have recovered mutilated bodies of three more victims of the Jan. 4 Kaduna gas explosion.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the recovery of the three bodies brings to eight the number of victims killed by the gas explosion.

The North West Zonal Controller, DPR, Isa Tafida made the disclosure during a condolence visit to the family of the late Chairman of Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, Prof. Simon Mallam.

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Tafida represented

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Breaking: Iran Finally Admits Shooting Down Ukrainian Plane

January 11, 2020 3:15 am
Iran has finally admitted that its military “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing all 176 onboard.

This was contained in a statement on Saturday morning where it also blamed “human error” for the incident, adding that the military mistook Flight 752 for a “hostile target.”

 

Recall that jetliner, a Boeing 737 operated by Ukrainian International Airlines, went down on the outskirts of Tehran during takeoff just hours after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at US forces in Iraq.

Iran had earlier denied shooting down the plane, saying it was impossible for such thing to have happened.

This

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SUG Not A Vehicle For Intimidation – Rector Warns SUG

January 11, 2020 3:11 am
The Rector of The Polytechnic Ibadan, Professor Kazeem Adebiyi, on Friday declared that students’ union is not a vehicle to intimidate fellow students and members of the public.

Adebiyi made this declaration while speaking during the swearing in ceremony of the Students’ Union executives and Students’ Representative Council held at the North Campus Assembly Hall of the institution.

The Rector in his remarks, charged the newly elected Students’ Union Executives in the institution to eschew political vendetta, internal wrangling and destructive youthful exuberance, which can tarnish the image of the institution.

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EFCC Speaks On ‘Atiku’s Arraignment’

January 11, 2020 3:11 am
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has categorically denied it will arraign Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar over alleged N₦75.3 billion fraud.

NAN recalls that an online report, Thursday claimed that the Commission will arraign the former Vice President before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos.

EFCC acting spokesman, therefore, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja stated, “EFCC wishes to state categorically that nothing of such took place”.

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Orilade added, “The Commission also wishes to state that no statement or

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MEND Meets Jonathan, Sends Message To Buhari

January 11, 2020 3:10 am
Following the December 24, 2019 attack on the Otuoke residence of ex President Goodluck Jonathan by gunmen, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), paid a solidarity visit to him at his residence in Yenagoa in Bayelsa on Friday.

This was contained in a statement by MEND spokesman, Jomo Gbomo.

MEND sympathized with the former President and his family while emphasizing “the futility of violence and terror as means of enthroning a better deal for the Niger Delta region, except as a last resort”.

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Anambra Govt Starts Operation Arrest All Touts (Pictures)

January 11, 2020 3:09 am

Anambra state Government through its Commissioner for Transport, Dr. CC Mmadubuko is out to stamp out the ILLEGAL REVENUE COLLECTION TOUTS from Onitsha south LGA and environs, many were Arrested yesterday and had been charged to court and are remanded in prison as the prosecution progresses.

Shocker is that one of them was caught with over #500,000k cash as early as 10am.

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Pls report such Touts to the nearest Police Station around you. the state government have equally instituted a REVENUE COURT within the premises of onitsha …

Amotekum: Disband Nigeria’s Security Apparatus Now

January 10, 2020 2:57 pm
Ntufam Mba Ekpezu Ukweni, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has said that the Nigeria’s security apparatus should be disbanded because they have failed Nigerians, which made them to resort to self-defence.

Ukweni, who spoke with NAN on Friday in Calabar, Cross River State capital, regretted the attitude of the nation’s security personnel, hence, his support for the launching of Amotekum by South West Governors.

He, however, urged other regions in the country that have not done same to form their own security outfit with a view to protecting their people from being attacked and killed.

He said, “I must

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NAF Neutralises ISWAP Fighters, Headquarters In Borno

January 10, 2020 2:54 pm
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed portions of an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP)’s tactical headquarters at Kollaram on the fringes of the Lake Chad in Borno.

The NAF said it also neutralised some ISWAP fighters in the same area.

Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information who made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted by the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, NAN reports.

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Daramola explained that the airstrikes

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Gov. Ayade Inaugurates Minimum Wage Negotiation Team

January 10, 2020 2:53 pm
Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade, on Friday, inaugurated the state public service negotiating team for the implementation of the new minimum wage.

The inauguration, which took place at the Conference Room of the deputy governor, Governor’s Office, Calabar, was performed by the deputy governor, Professor Ivara Esu, who represented the governor.

Ayade expressed the willingness of his administration to pay the new minimum wage of N30, 000.

He said, “We are only here to negotiate the consequential adjustments that will affect salaries from Grade levels 7 to 17. In doing that, we carefully selected this team of

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War: Saudi Arabia Attacks Iran, Backs America

January 10, 2020 2:53 pm

Saudi Arabian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir, has condemned Wednesday’s missile attacks by Iran on US bases.

Qassem Soleimani, who was the Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, was killed in a US airstrike on his convoy at Baghdad airport last week rising the tension of another World War.

The airstrike, which was an order from US President Donald Trump, has since generated a lot of controversies and reactions from world leaders.

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On Wednesday, Iran retaliated by launching over

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2023: Stop Distracting Buhari – Ude Tells Enugu APC

January 10, 2020 2:52 pm
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Comrade Adolphus Ude has urged the Ben-Nwoye-led leadership of the party in the State to stop distracting the President Muhammdu Buhari administration with the 2023 presidency contest.

NAN reports that Ude belongs to the Enugu APC leadership under Deacon Okey Ogbodo.

In a statement he made available to NAN in Abuja, Ude said it was too early for Nwoye and his team to be fanning embers of unity over the 2023 presidency.

This is following the Nwoye-led APC’s endorsement of the minister of science and technology, Chief Ogbonnaya

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