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COVID-19: NCDC reports 120 new infections, three deaths

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 120 additional infections of COVID-19 from 10 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with three related deaths as of Oct. 29, 2021. The NCDC disclosed this in its daily COVID-19 report on Saturday morning. The 120 additional cases reported on Friday, indicate a decrease from the 182 cases reported the previous day. The Public Health Agency stated that the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country has reached 211,798 with 202,962 cases discharged and…

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FG’s search warrant revoked after five-hour siege to Justice Odili’s Abuja home

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A search warrant granted to the Joint Panel Recovery unit of the Federal Ministry of Justice to search the home of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili, has been revoked by a Chief Magistrates’ Court. The panel, which comprises the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Nigeria Police Force and the Ministry of Justice, had obtained a search warrant from the magistrates’ court after a whistleblower, Aliyu Umar, claimed to have observed illegal activities going on at No. 9, Imo Street, Maitama, Abuja. Umar’s affidavit dated October 13, 2021, read in…

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Mogaji Wole Arisekola commiserates with Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland

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The publisher of Street Journal, Mogaji Wole Arisekola has commiserated with Dawud Makanjuola Akinola, the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta States, over the death of his wife, Alimot Olufunke Akinola, on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Mogaji Arisekola in a statement, urged the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, the family of the deceased, friends and entire Muslim community in general to immortalise the good name of the late mother and wife. He said: “The death of a loved one, especially matriarch of a family, is usually painful as it is…

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Plateau Speaker impeached by 8 out of 24 lawmakers

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Eight out of 24 members of the Plateau State House of Assembly yesterday morning, reportedly impeached the Speaker, Abok Ayuba, and installed Yakubu Sanda (Pengana-Bassa constituency of Jos North Local Council) in his place. It was gathered that the eight members were loyal to Governor Simon Lalong. They were reportedly at the assembly complex by 5.00am and finished the impeachment by 6.00 am. At the gate, only members, who were against Ayuba were allowed by the security personnel to enter the chambers, while those loyal to him were not allowed…

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301 houses recovered by ICPC from two civil servants in Abuja

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Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), hàs said the agency recovered 301 houses from two public officers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The revelation came at the inauguration of the House of Representatives adhoc Committee on Investigation of the Operations of Real Estate Developers, yesterday. The ICPC chairman said while 241 buildings were recovered from one of the suspects at different locations within the FCT, the remaining 60 were recovered on a large expanse of land at another location.…

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Woman arrested for murdering husband with machete in Rivers

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A 51-year-old woman, Gladys Amadi, from Chokocho, in the Etche Local Government Area, has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command for allegedly killing her husband, Napoleon Amadi, with a machete. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this while parading the suspect at the State Criminal Investigation Department in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Omoni said Gladys, who admitted to committing the crime, was arrested on October 8, 2021. He said, “It is a case of murder of one Napoleon Amadi. The local police swung into…

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Bandits collecting levies doesn’t mean they’ve taken over – Lai Mohammed

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Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, says the fact that bandits are imposing levies on communities does not mean they have taken control. Mohammed said this during in Abuja on Thursday while reacting to an article by The Economist magazinebtitled, ‘Insurgency, secessionism and banditry threaten Nigeria.’ The minister said the London-based magazine was wrong to claim that terrorists had carved caliphates for themselves in the North-East. While answering questions on banditry in the North-West where bandits now impose levies on communities, Mohammed argued that imposing levies does not…

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FirstBank Reinforces Support For Georgian Cup Tournament, Sponsors The 102nd Edition In Kaduna

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First Bank of Nigeria Limited, the title sponsor of one of polo’s most prestigious trophy, the Georgian Cup is grabbing all the headlines and attention as the 102nd edition of the competition gets underway in Kaduna. The competition, scheduled to hold 23rd – 30th October 2021 at the Kaduna Polo Club, will feature High Goal teams drawn from across the country who are already on the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running sponsorship in sports and Kaduna El-Amin as the defending Champion. Expectedly, this year’s edition of…

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NLC, residents block Lagos – Abeokuta Expressway in protest against bad roads

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Members of the Nigerian Labour Congress in Ogun State yesterday blocked the Sango-Ota section of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, after the expiration of 21 days ultimatum given to the government. This is coming after the NLC had given the Ogun State government and the Federal government a 21-day ultimatum for them to fix the deplorable road. The NLC had on October 6 stormed the Sango portion of the Lagos-Abeokuta highway with a threat to shut down the state if nothing was done within 21 days. The NLC, after the expiration of…

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Eight residents preparing for burial, kidnapped in Ekiti, N50m demanded

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No fewer than eight residents were on Tuesday night kidnapped in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The abductors were said to have contacted the family of the victims on Wednesday morning, according to sources, and demanded N50 million ransom. A source said on Wednesday that the gunmen, at about 9.30pm, invaded a house where the houseowner was preparing for the burial of his mother, shot sporadically into the air and made away with eight persons. “The men numbering seven came around 9.30pm with guns and surrounded the…

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