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Defend your ancestral lands, Soyinka, Ooni advise Nigerians

Defend your ancestral lands, Soyinka, Ooni advise Nigerians

Nigeria cannot survive another civil war, Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka and frontline monarch Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, have warned.

They called on the authorities to arrest what they see as the prevailing drift into “a dysfunctional state on multiple levels of citizenship, community belonging, security and productive opportunities”.

In a communiqué they issued at the end of a meeting at the weekend, the duo counselled the government on ensuring co-existence amongst Nigerians.

The communique was issued after a visit by the royal father to Soyinka in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

They said that solutions must be …

Trader lands in trouble for enticing, wooing married woman

Trader lands in trouble for enticing, wooing married woman

A 38-year-old  trader, Aliyu Abubakar,  on Friday appeared in a Kubwa Grade I Area Court for allegedly enticing and wooing a married woman.

The police charged Abubakar, who resides in Dei-dei, with enticement of a married woman.

The Prosecution Counsel, John Okpa, told the court that the complainant, Malam Murtala Suleiman, reported the matter at the Dei-dei Police Station on June 13.

He said that the complainant alleged that the defendant usually calls this wife, Zainab on the phone late at night.

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Okpa also alleged that the defendant visited …