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Final decision on Abba Kyari’s extradition’ll be taken by the President —Police Minister

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Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, police Affairs Minister, said on Tuesday night that the final decision on request for extradition of suspended head of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, would be taken only by President Muhammadu Buhari. It would be recalled that Kyari was suspended from office to answer allegations of complicity in the $1.1million bribe fraud perpetrated by Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, who was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and extradited to the US for trial. Speaking on Channels Television Programme ‘ Politics Today’, Dingyadi said the federal…

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WHO target to vaccinate 70% of world’s population by mid-2022

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Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and a group of global health leaders, yesterday, pledged to vaccinate 70 per cent of the population of all countries by mid-2022. They said more than 5.7 billion doses have been administered globally but only two per cent of those have been administered in Africa, even as they issued an urgent call for vaccine equity worldwide and in Africa in particular. The leaders, at a press conference, stressed that the worst pandemic in the last hundred years will not…

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We’ll give Jonathan chance to contest 2023 presidency -APC

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The All Progressives Congress says former President Goodluck Jonathan will be given an opportunity to contest for the 2023 presidency if he joins the ruling party. The National Secretary, APC Caretaker, and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, John Akpanudoedehe, said this while featuring as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday. He said this when asked about the speculations that Jonathan is considering to join the ruling party. The APC official also clarified that the ex-president will also be granted a founding member status if he joins. He, however,…

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Six Nigerians, others tagged as Boko Haram, terrorism financiers by UAE

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38 individuals and 15 entities have been named by the UAE cabinet, on Monday, as backers of the Boko Haram sect and other terrorist cause. Nigerians on the UAE’s terrorism list include Abdurrahaman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad. The six persons have been previously tried and sentenced in the Western Asia country. A South West political group, Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum (YRLP),called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the development and prosecute those found culpable. In a…

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Buhari seeks fresh N2tr loans

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Amid concerns over N33tr debt burden, President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the Senate to consider and approve an external borrowing plan amounting to about N2.5 trillion to fund projects captured under the 2018-2021 borrowing projections. If approved, the country’s documented national debts will balloon to over N35 trillion.     The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, read the letter dated August 24, 2021, during plenary in Abuja, yesterday. Buhari, in the letter, explained that the projects listed in the 2018-2021 Federal Government Borrowing Plan were to be financed through sovereign loans from…

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Two final year students jailed for cybercrime in Kwara

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Two final-year students of two tertiary institutions in Ilorin have been sentenced to various jail terms by the Kwara State High Court for offences bordering on cybercrime. The convicts are Oyewale Adetunji and Ibrahim Adebayo, students of the Kwara State University, Malete, and Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, respectively. Also convicted alongside Adetunji and Adebayo was one Saheed Sikirullahi, who claimed to be a former student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin. The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission prosecuted the three convicts on separate charges. The…

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Ex-soldier arrested with N7.5m worth of cannabis

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A drug syndicate has been busted by troops of Operation Safe Haven, recovering 248 blocks of substance suspected to be cannabis worth about N7.5 m. The substance was said to be concealed in a Toyota Camry car with registration number Lagos, KJA 150 EG. According to a statement on Tuesday by Military Information Officer, Major Ishaku Takwa, the suspects include a retired army personnel. The statement was titled, ‘Troops bursts drug syndicates, recovers illicit drugs’. It partly read, “The suspects Ex-Corporal Essien Friday, a 60-year-old retired Army personnel and 50-year-old…

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Gunfire rocks schools, towns, cities in Imo as gunmen enforce sit-at-home order

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Gunmen, enforcing the sit-at-home order of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, attacked Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume, chasing away students who were sitting for the West African Examinations Council, WAEC. They also set ablaze motorcycles belonging to the teachers and students and ordered everyone, including the students sitting for English Language paper, to go home. It was learnt that the enforcers who were fully armed stormed the premises of the school in the early hours of the day. An eyewitness said they came in a motorcycle motorcade as well as…

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FG alerts INTERPOL as 240 escape in Kogi jailbreak

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Gunmen reportedly attacked Kabba Prisons in Kogi State late Sunday night, killing a soldier and policeman manning security at the facility. The Federal Government yesterday enlisted the help of the International Police Organisation, INTERPOL in tracking the fleeing inmates. The gunmen also set free no fewer than 240 prisoners from the prisons in the attack in which two prisons’ personnel were also declared missing. Government’s appeal to INTERPOL was to assist in tracking and arresting prisoners set free, should they flee beyond Nigerian shores. The gunmen were said to have…

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Woman, son arrested by NSCDC for incest in Kwara

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An immigrant from Benin Republic, Adamu Sime, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Kwara State, for allegedly having carnal knowledge of his biological mother. The mother, who was also arrested, had reportedly had three children for her son. The Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC, Kwara State Command, Babawale Afolabi, confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday in llorin. He said, “On Thursday, September 9, 2021, one Mallam Bandede, the district head of Mose community in Kaima, reported the incestuous act…

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