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Another 147 Inmates Found By Nigerian Police In Kaduna

Another 147 Inmates Found By Nigerian Police In Kaduna

October 19, 2019 4:02 pm

The Kaduna State Police Command has raided another rehabilitation centre in Kaduna, where 147 inmates mostly in shackles were found.

The Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo confirmed the raid in a press statement issued on Saturday in Kaduna.

He said that the police raided NIGAS Rehabilitation and Skills Acquisition Centre located at Rigasa in Igabi Local Government Area, at about 8 am on Saturday.

According to him, Gov. Nasir El-Rufai led the operation at the center which had male and female inmates.

Sabo explained that during the raid, some of the inmates made certain allegations of maltreatment …

The World Mustn’t Sleep-Walk Into Another Debt Crisis

The World Mustn’t Sleep-Walk Into Another Debt Crisis

October 17, 2019 4:17 am

Patricia Scotland

Trade wars, protectionism, and nationalist rhetoric are combining to create the possibility of a nightmare debt crisis that could be worse than any previously experienced. Global borrowing is now at the highest levels since the 1950s – and history suggests we should take this as a warning that a debt crisis could be looming. Were one to materialise, it could inflict greater dislocation on international financial systems and national economic stability than ever previously witnessed.

This would be particularly tragic in view of the extraordinary global commitment to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals, and as so many nations …

Another 300 Chained Persons Rescued By Police In Katsina

Another 300 Chained Persons Rescued By Police In Katsina

October 15, 2019 6:13 am

Katsina State Police Command has uncovered a rehabilitation centre in Daura, the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari, harbouring no fewer than 300 persons chained on their legs and malnourished.

This was coming barely two months after police uncovered a house in Rigasa area of Kaduna State containing another 300 children in the same manner.

The Katsina centre is located in Nasarawa Quarters of Daura Local Government Area of the state with six rooms accommodating the victims.

The victims, who were seriously tortured by their teachers with varying degrees of injuries and profiled by the police, are from Bauchi, Adamawa, …

ASUU Crisis Deepens; Another Group Insists On Registration

ASUU Crisis Deepens; Another Group Insists On Registration

October 14, 2019 4:36 am
  • Alleges corruption, lack of consultation against national body
  • We hope reason will prevail at last, says ASUU

The crisis threatening the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has deepened as the splinter group of the university lecturers’ union called Congress of University Academic (CONUA) at the weekend insisted that its immediate priority is a formal registration, accusing ASUU officials of corruption and lack of consultations in the handling of the affairs of the national body.

However, ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has insisted that there is no split in the union, adding that his senior colleagues and comrades have continued …

Fact Check: Is Buhari Really Marrying Another Wife?

Fact Check: Is Buhari Really Marrying Another Wife?

October 12, 2019 2:28 am

Since Wednesday, social media has been awash with claims that the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will be getting married to Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, because Mrs Buhari has been away for months.

A video purportedly showing Nigeria’s First Lady Aisha Buhari locked up in a room in Aso Villa after she returned from London on Thursday has been shared and viewed tens of thousand times on the social media.

Mrs Buhari left the country early August to Saudi Arabia to perform hajj (Muslim pilgrimage) and has not returned since then.

Several hashtags …

Gunmen Invade Another School In Kaduna, Abduct Principal

Gunmen Invade Another School In Kaduna, Abduct Principal

October 10, 2019 4:47 pm

The Principal of Government Technical Secondary School, Maraban Kajuru, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State have been abducted following an attack on the school by gunmen. The gunmen were said to have invaded the school in the early hours of Thursday and broke into the principal’s house.

This is coming a week after bandits raided Engravers College, Kakau Daji in Chikun Local Government Area, abducting six female students and two members of staff who are still in captivity. A resident around the school, who witnessed the incident, said the bandits arrived at the technical school at about 12:45 …

China Road Crash; 36 Killed, Another 36 Badly Hurt

East China Road Crash; 36 Killed, Another 36 Badly Hurt

September 29, 2019 9:43 am

At least 36 people died, and 36 others were injured in east China when a packed coach with a flat tyre collided with a truck, authorities said Sunday.

The bus was carrying 69 people — its maximum capacity — when it crossed into oncoming traffic and hit the freight truck on an expressway in eastern Jiangsu province on Saturday morning, the Yixing public security bureau said.

A preliminary investigation determined that the accident was caused by a flat tyre on the left front wheel of the bus, the bureau said in a statement.

Nine people were seriously injured, 26 were …

Court orders forfeiture of another Diezani's property

Court orders forfeiture of another Diezani’s property

July 10, 2019 12:16 am

The Federal High Court, Lagos yesterday ordered that a plot of land in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, allegedly belonging to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, be forfeited to the Federal Government.

Justice Chuka Obiozor made the forfeiture order following an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The anti-graft agency had told the judge that the land, measuring 7,903.71 to 8,029.585 square metres and designated as Plot 9, Azikiwe Road, Old GRA (UAC Property on Forces Avenue), Port Harcourt, was reasonably suspected to part of proceeds of unlawful activities.

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MFM secures another victory in American court

MFM secures another victory in American court

June 30, 2019 12:22 am

An American Court has awarded punitive damages against breakaway pastors of the Bowie branch of Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) in Maryland, United States, for breach of trust and illegally hijacking the branch and its assets in 2017.

The judgment followed an action filed in 2018 before the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County in Maryland, USA, with suit number CAL16-26532 by the MFM International, seeking damages against former resident pastor and 11 other members for converting the church property to their personal use.

The court, in its ruling, ordered the pastor and his co-defendants to pay the …

Atiku hires US lobbyists to take ‘fight’ to another level

April 9, 2019 10:41 pm

Atiku Abubakar, the defeated presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party is not solely casting his lot on his legal challenge of President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the 23 February election as he has enlisted the assistance of two high-powered Washington, D.C. lawyers.

Their role will be to lobby those in President Donald Trump’s inner circle and the US Congress to delay recognising Buhari as the winner as declared by Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) on 27 February. Instead, Atiku craved to be recognised as the ‘authentic president’ of Nigeria.

In addition, he has set up what he called a “US …

Facebook to begin monitoring phone activities with new app

Facebook faces yet another privacy flap

March 23, 2019 10:59 am
This time, the company acknowledges that it mishandled sensitive passwords for hundreds of millions of its users, primarily those who use its Facebook Lite product. The disclosure casts doubt on the company’s abilities to protect its users’ information as it focuses more on privacy.
On Thursday, Facebook (FB) said it didn’t properly mask the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users and stored them as plain text in an internal database that could be accessed by its staff.
The company said it discovered the exposed passwords during a security review in January and launched an investigation. Facebook
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INEC ad hoc staff murdered, another apprehended

February 25, 2019 1:00 am

As the announcement of the presidential election results begins today, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said yesterday that the commission lost an ad-hoc staff in Rivers and another official has been handed over to the police in Imo State for alleged infractions.

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