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Kaduna Police Debunks Report Of 100 Abducted In Kaduna

January 19, 2020 5:38 pm
The Kaduna Police Command has debunked the story being circulated by The Premium Times that 30 people were killed and 100 abducted when bandits attacked an emir.

The Nigeria Police Kaduna State Command refuted the claims in a statement signed by its Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Yakubu Abubakar Sabo, made available on Sunday January 19, 2020.

“The attention of the Kaduna State Police Command has been drawn to a story that was published on The Premium Times Newspaper of today 19th January, 2020 and is being circulated on Social Media captioned “Bandit Attack: Buhari sympathises with Emir but

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Lagos Community Debunks Rumours Over Kingship Tussle

December 9, 2019 8:58 am

Some members of the Oniru Royal Family, Iru land in Lagos State, have said there was no acrimony among members of the clan over kingship.

This is coming on the heels of the recent election of the new Oniru, Hakeem Ajasa. There were reports that some aggrieved parties, in a section of the community, had challenged the announcement of Ajasa as the oba-elect.

But Ajasa’s supporters have reaffirmed their confidence in him, saying there was neither controversy nor opposition to his emergence. They described the dissenting voices as baseless and ill-informed.

The last Oba Idowu Oniru died at the …

Akwa Ibom Debunks Allegation Of Poor Quality Roads

November 25, 2019 9:22 am

Akwa Ibom State government has debunked claims by some House of Assembly members that roads constructed by Governor Emmanuel administration have failed.

Two members of the Assembly, Victor Ekwere and Mark Esset, had confronted the Commissioner for Works, Ephraim Inyang-Eyen with the allegation that about 97 percent of all roads constructed in local government areas by Emmanuel’s administration collapsed immediately after their inauguration.

While putting a lie to the allegation, Inyang-eyen said a problem with one or two out of the 57 roads currently being constructed across the state did not amount to 97 percent of the supposedly failed roads, …

Ex-Niger Gov Aliyu Debunks Leaving Empty Treasury

November 13, 2019 11:13 am
A former Niger State governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said that he did not leave an empty treasury for his successor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, contrary to claims by the new administration.
Aliyu also said he was not owing civil servants salaries as at the time he left office on May 29, 2015.
The former governor made the clarifications in Minna on Tuesday as he marked his 64th birthday with friends and well wishers at his private residence.
Aliyu challenged the government to make public the “handover notes” he left for the new administration to prove he was not
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PDP debunks APC’s claim on Atiku’s Cameroonian citizenship

April 14, 2019 11:19 pm

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as “reckless and groundless” claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its presidential candidate in the just concluded general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is a Cameroonian.

The main opposition party said the allegation is a calculated attempt by the ruling party to trivialise and divert attention from alleged rigging of the presidential election.

It was, however, good news for the PDP yesterday as it won the four state assembly seats in the supplementary election organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers State last Saturday.

With these results, PDP has …

EFCC debunks story on Ayeni, former chairman of Skye Bank

February 10, 2019 1:10 am

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has denied reports that former Chairman of Skye Bank, Tunde Ayeni is currently undergoing treatment in an undisclosed medical facility after he was poisoned in EFCC detention.

EFCC’s acting Spokesperson, Tony Orilade, in a statement yesterday, in Abuja, said: “Given that the intention of this false alarm is to incite public against the Commission, we found it compelling to state in clear terms that Ayeni, upon arrest and conveyance to the Commission, was neither offered food nor drink by our operatives.

There was also nothing consumable: food, drink or water that was brought …

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