The Lagos Commandant of NSCDC, Mr Cyprian Otoibhi, while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Lagos, said the victims were rescued on Jan. 15 at 9.20 pm at No13 Abuke Oku Street, Iyana Ipaja.
According to the commandant, the victims were recruited by one Miss Micheal Omowunmi, who has spent two years in Mali, and one Mr Favour Owoke, who is at large.
“However, Omowunmi,
The governor was quoted to have told the people of Ishielu and Onicha Local Government Areas at the Government House, Abakaliki, on Monday, that he was “100 per cent APC.”
Addressing newsmen at the end of the APC State Executive Committee’s meeting on Friday in Abakiliki, the Chairman of the party, Chief Eze Nwachukwu, called on relevant authorities to investigate the claim.
Femi Falana, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says Abubakar Malami risks being removed as the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) if he fails to secure the release of Omoyele Sowore.
Last Friday, Malami took over Sowore’s case from the Department of State Services (DSS), and with this development, Falana, counsel to the activist, asked him to use his office to secure Sowore’s release.
The AGF, however, said he cannot take any decision on Sowore’s release.
Responding in a statement on Tuesday, Falana said the AGF has not taken note of the legal implications of taking over the case.
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A BEAUTY queen is taking legal action against the Miss World contest after she was banned for being a mum.
Veronika Didusenko, 24, was crowned Miss Ukraine in 2018 but stripped of her title four days later when it was revealed she was divorced with a son.
She should have gone on to represent her country in the Miss World finals but was banned from taking part and replaced by another contestant.
Veronika claims bosses of the UK-owned Miss World franchise are in breach of the Equalities Act 2010 and has demanded they change their “outdated” entry rules.
She …
He replaced Ante Covic as Hertha Berlin manager on Wednesday last week but lost his first match 2-1 at home to Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. But the defeat has not dulled Klinsmann’s great feeling about returning to manage a Bundesliga side.
“It was a wonderful feeling, being back, being back in our capital, Berlin, was something special,” Klinsmann who was first appointed
A former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Adoke (SAN), has asked the International Criminal Police Organisation (ICPO), commonly referred to as Interpol, to let him go, because authorities in Nigeria are only persecuting him for political reasons.
In a letter to Interpol, Adoke’s lawyer, Gromyko Amedu, who is based in the United Kingdom, said the continued detention of his client was in clear violation of Article 3 of the ICPO Constitution. Amedu alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was acting unlawfully.
Article 3 of the ICPO Constitution forbids Interpol from undertaking …
Arsenal Football Club interim coach Freddie Ljungberg on Friday promised to give everything to put smiles on faces of the fans after a disappointing start to the season.
“However long I oversee Arsenal for I will give everything I have to put smiles on faces again,” Ljungberg said in a tweet.
Ljungberg was appointed Arsenal interim manager after the sack of coach Unai Emery on Friday.
The Arsenal board said they are confident of Ljungberg’s abilities for the games he will be managing the team.
“We have full confidence in …
He was seen as an almost professorial figure who could tackle unemployment and government graft as Iraq’s first prime minister since the defeat of the Islamic State group.
Growing up in an era where cigarette adverts were permitted to air on television and radio, it was a tad difficult to miss those deceptive cuts that told us it was a mark of pristine masculinity to puff on neatly wrapped nicotine.
It was also one of those ads – St. Moritz’s – that introduced me to the music of Lighthouse Family. Ocean Drive’s simple yet inspiring lyrics contradict the reality cigarettes represent, but the minds behind it found it beautiful enough – maybe it’s Tunde Baiyewu’s voice – to rest the soul of the commercial on. Such was the …
The waiter’s colleagues called police after he was shot in the shoulder with a handgun in the Noisy-le-Grand suburb east of Paris on Friday night, the source said.
Attempts to revive the 28-year-old failed and he died at the scene.
The gunman, who a witness said lost his temper “as his sandwich wasn’t prepared quickly enough”, fled the scene.
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The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has denied knowledge of a campaign group fronting an “unsolicited and unwarranted” campaign materials.
Tinubu in a series of tweets signed by his media office and posted on his official Twitter handle on Tuesday gave the name of the campaign group as ‘Asiwaju Reloaded Ambassadors’ Nigeria.’
“We have seen pictures of face caps, T shirts, shirts and even leaflets with Bola Tinubu 2023 embossed on them,” he tweeted.
“We hereby, through this medium, categorically deny any knowledge of the group and dissociates Asiwaju Tinubu from the group’s unsolicited and …
Prince Harry has recently been accused of “cheating” on Meghan Markle. The rumors swirled months after Prince William was also linked to another woman while he’s married to Kate Middleton.
While at the Trooping the Colour, reports claimed that Prince Harry dated Burberry model Sarah Ann Macklin after he met the Duchess of Sussex. At the event to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday, Meghan put on a brave face despite already knowing about the rumors.
Royal biographer Angela Levin detailed Prince Harry and Macklin’s relationship in the book “Harry: Conversations With The Prince.” She said that while Prince Harry and …
