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Bandits Kill 11, Kidnap Scores, Rape Women In Niger

January 26, 2020 4:47 am

Armed bandits were again on rampage in some Niger communities on Saturday, killing 11 people, kidnapping scores of others, and raping women. The incident took place about 6am at Kudodo, Galapai, Dnakpala, Makera, and Dnalgwa villages of Shiroro Local Government Area.
The senator for Niger East Senatorial District, Alhaji Sani Musa, sent an urgent appeal for intervention to the federal government to halt the carnage. The distress message in the aftermath of the attacks was the second by the lawmaker in one week following similar assaults by gunmen.

Saturday’s invasion was said to have been carried out by …

Abia

Ethnic Crisis Averted In Abia Over Alleged Missing Penis

January 25, 2020 3:56 pm
Ethnic and religious crisis was averted in Umuahia, the Abia State capital on Saturday as a tiger-nut customer raised the alarm over the sudden disappearance of his penis, according to Thisday.

The incident happened at Oboro Street by Niger road in Umuahia and attracted so many residents who wanted to have a glimpse of the incident.

The newspaper reports that it took the timely intervention of policemen to avert a mob action against the Hausa man who was accused of being behind the missing penis

It was said that the man whose manhood allegedly went missing said that he

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“Option C” Investors Storm Office To Demand Their Money

January 25, 2020 1:19 pm

Tens of Lagosians stormed the LASU Road office of late Alhaji Fatai Yusuf, popularly known as Oko Oloyun, to demand the money they invested in his Ponzi scheme.

Oko Oloyun, a popular Lagos-based trado-medical expert, was murdered on Thursday 23 January 2020 around 4:30pm on the road while travelling to Iseyin, Oyo State. He was reportedly attacked by some hoodlums at Igboora.

Following his demise, people who invested money in his Ponzi scheme, known as “Option C” stormed the Head office of his company to demand how to retrieve their money. The investors were the more confused as his two …

B’Haram, ISWAP Clash, Members Turn Guns Against Each Other

January 25, 2020 1:18 pm

Intense gunfire between two rival jihadist groups in northeast Nigeria has left several fighters dead, two sources with close knowledge of the incident told AFP on Monday.

Fighters in pickup trucks from a Boko Haram faction loyal to Abubakar Shekau stormed a camp belonging to rival IS-aligned Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), resulting in a fierce gunbattle that caused several fatalities, the sources said.

The Boko Haram jihadists attacked the camp in Sunnawa village in Abadam district near the border with Niger to reclaim their women seized by ISWAP fighters in an earlier raid on their camp across the …

Cross River Rerun: Security Rescue Abducted Corps Members

January 25, 2020 1:16 pm
Six National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) members have been abducted and elections materials meant for Afafanyi and Igbonigoni House of Assembly re-run elections hijacked mid-sea along Etighidi River in Cross River State.

THISDAY  gathered that thugs suspected to be armed hijacked elections materials and abducted the INEC adhoc staff as they were about taking materials to Afafanyi and Igbonigoni wards for the rerun election on Saturday.

An eyewitness who declined giving his name alleged that the Corps members were accompanying the materials when suspected thugs allegedly abducted them and seized the materials.

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DSS Arrests Journalist Over Article On Buhari, Tinubu

January 25, 2020 8:03 am
The Department of State Services (DSS) has secretly arrested a young journalist, Ayoola Babalola.

DSS also charged him to court in discreet and Babalola is currently in prison.

Outspoken lawyer cum rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, made the revelation on Twitter.

Effiong disclosed that Babalola was arrested over articles about President Muhammadu Buhari, national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinunu, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and #RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore.

He tweeted: “Late on Friday, I was alerted that my client Mr. Ayoola Babalola, a courageous student activist and young journalist, was arrested and charged

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Wife Dumps Her ‘One-Minute’ Husband For A Corper

January 24, 2020 2:17 pm

◗Wife plans to marry a youth corps lover

◗ Man machetes wife for exposing his sexual inadequacies

◗ She is heartless and deserves to die – Husband

Sex. Lack of hot, good sex! This has driven a serious wedge in the marital relationship between Mr. Audu Abaa, 39, a Migili man, from Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State and his pretty young wife, Talatu, and mother of their three children. It was so serious as to make Talatu, a Jukun by tribe, determined to leave Audu for a younger man, a youth corps member who she met during …

EFCC

EFCC Vs Maina: What Happened In Court On Friday

January 24, 2020 2:17 pm
Khalid Aliyu, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, prosecution witness (PW5) in the ongoing trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), on Friday, disclosed that the PRTT rejected a N2 billion bribe from the accused persons in the police pension fraud.

Aliyu, who is also Maina’s younger brother, made the disclosure during a cross examination before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the EFCC had, on Oct. 25, charged Maina and his son, Faisal, before the court alongside his firm, Common Input Property and

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Rivers: 5 Young Men Go Insane After Intake Of Unknown Drink

January 24, 2020 2:14 pm
Five young men have reportedly gone insane after drinking mixed herbs with gin fondly called ‘Kaikai’ at Omuakwuru community in Igboo-Etche, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The victims, who are young men from the community, committed the act of drugging themselves when they went for the burial of one of their elders, Blessing Wokowa.

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A source in community, who confirmed the incident said, “The boys started misbehaving immediately after the intake of the root mixed with local dry gin which was prepared by one of

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Corruption: Malami Disputes Transparency Report On Nigeria

January 23, 2020 10:33 am

The Federal Government has reacted to the Transparency International Corruption perceptions Index released on Thursday

THISDAY had reported that Nigeria dropped two steps below on the 2019 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index.

In the latest release on Thursday, Nigeria ranked 146 out of 180 countries studied.

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But, reacting in an interview on Channels Television, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami who discredited the report said the Buhari led government has done more in the fight against corruption.

He also said there are no proofs by …

Staff Raise Alarm As Provost Escapes With ₦19m Official Car

January 23, 2020 10:32 am
There is tension at the Federal College of Cooperative, Ibadan, over the alleged refusal of the immediate past Provost of the college, Mr Felix Ikechukwu Okafor, to hand over a ₦19m official car to in his possession to the institution.

THISDAY gathered from staff of the college that some of them are worried over the refusal of Mr Okafor to had over the keys of the car to the institution four months after his retirement.

It was learnt that Okafor’s original retirement date was September 20, 2019 but instead of him to hand over to the officer next to him,

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Allison-Madueke Will Be Extradited This Year, Says Magu

January 23, 2020 10:32 am

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, wednesday vowed that a former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, would be extradited back to the country this year to face corruption charges.

He also accused some international partners, especially in the United Kingdom, of giving what he described as undue protection to the former minister.
Magu, during a visit to the Ibadan Zonal Office of the commission, said the agency was already changing its tactics and strategy of engaging foreign partners to ensure the extradition of the former minister.

Magu, while fielding questions from …

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