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Drug Offenses: NDLEA slams eight criminal charges against Abba Kyari, others

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An eight-count charge bothering on trafficking in hard drugs has been slammed against the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday, in Abuja. Kyari was charged with the criminal offences alongside four other senior police officers and two civilians in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CR/57/2022 filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja and signed by NDLEA Director of Prosecution and Legal Services, Joseph Sunday. Those charged along with Abba Kyari are, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Sunday Ubua, Assistant Superintendent…

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$1,000 to be provided by Nigerian fighters for ticket, visa – Ukraine Embassy

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The Embassy of Ukraine in Nigeria says Nigerians who are willing to travel to Ukraine to fight Russian forces must be willing to provide $1,000 for ticket and visa. The embassy stated this when scores of Nigerian men converged on its premises in Abuja on Thursday to express their readiness to join the Ukrainian side. The Second Secretary at the Ukrainian Embassy in Nigeria, Bohdan Soltys, confirmed that $1,000 would be needed by Nigerian volunteers. The announcement did not go down well with the Nigerians who lamented that the price…

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No funds to meet ASUU’s demands – Ngige

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Dr Chris Ngige,, the Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, has stated that the Federal Government does not have the funds to meet its obligations in the agreement signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Ngige said the government was considering a renegotiation of the terms of the agreement with ASUU, in the effort to end the ongoing strike by university lecturers. The minister made this known while appearing on a current affairs programme on television on Thursday. When asked if he agreed that the government had failed to…

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Masturbating seven times a day secret to boxing success -Tyson Fury

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Boxing champion, Tyson Fury, has claimed that masturbating ‘seven times a day’ is the secret to his boxing success. Speaking to the Pat McAfee Show on YouTube, the 33-year-old ‘Gypsy King’ boxing champion, said: ‘I put my success down to masturbation seven times a day. ‘Got to keep that blood pumping baby; the only thing I have been loading is testosterone from all the w***ing over the years. ‘Right hands and left hands depending on what I feel like.’ This is not the first time that Fury has admitted to…

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Terrorism: Over 200 bandits killed by security operatives in Niger -Govt

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No fewer than 200 armed bandits were killed between Sunday and yesterday by operatives of the joint Security Taskforce in Rafi and Mariga Local Government Areas, LGAs, in gun duel. This was made known by the Niger State Government yesterday. Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Internal, Mr. Emmanuel Umar, at a briefing in Minna yesterday, said the bandits were killed in Kundu axis of Rafi and Babanlaba axis of Mariga LGAs and other parts of the state between Sunday and Wednesday. He noted that all the leaders of…

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FG approves $8.5m to evacuate 5,000 Nigerians fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war

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The Federal Government has approved the sum of $8.5 million to facilitate the immediate evacuation of at least 5,000 Nigerians fleeing from the Russia-Ukraine war to Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. University students, including many from Nigeria, fleeing from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, stow their luggage as they get on their transport bus close to the Hungarian-Ukrainian border in the village of Tarpa in Hungary on February 28, 2022. – More than half a million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion five days ago, with more…

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FG approves US request for Abba Kyari’s extradition

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The Federal Government has approved the request by the United States of America to extradite the suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. The US had requested that Kyari should be extradited over alleged $1.1million wire fraud involving Abass Ramon aka Hushpuppi and four others. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), made this known in an application filed before the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja. In the application marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/249/2022, and filed under…

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NASS affirms states’ power to collect VAT

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The National Assembly has rejected a proposal seeking to shift the collection of VAT from the concurrent to the exclusive legislative list, effectively leaving the decision to the Supreme Court which is hearing the matter. A Federal High Court had last year ruled that states had the powers to collect VAT. However, the Federal Government opposed the ruling and continued to collect VAT while it  projected that it will collect N2.2tn in 2022 through the Federal Inland Revenue Service. The regime of President Mohammadu Buhari, also incorporated VAT collection in…

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Septuagenarian arrested for killing brother over land dispute

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Ohalete Jogoji, a 73-year-old man, has been arrested for allegedly killing his immediate younger brother, Augustine Jogoji, over a land dispute. The incident happened at Amaraku Junction, in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, where some youths seized the suspect and stripped him naked. They threatened to beat him up before some youths, led by one Bathram Uwandu, rescued him and took him to the police command headquarters in Owerri. Ohalete, during an interview, said he hacked his younger brother to death while he was asleep. The…

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Man remanded for killing father with pestle

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A 23-year-old man, Victor Akinwa, has been remanded in prison custody on the order of an Ondo magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, for allegedly killing his father, Justus. Victor was arrested for allegedly killing his father with a pestle in November 2021 on Basic Road, Idanre, in the Idanre Local Government Area of the state. The police prosecutor, Mr Obadasa Ajiboye, told the court that the defendant hit his father with a pestle in the head, which resulted in his death. According to the prosecution, the offences contravene…

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