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Medical doctor arrested for selling drugged cookies online

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A 26 year-old medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma, who is a graduate of medicine from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and recently completed her housemanship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital has been arrested in Auchi, Edo State. Chioma was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for allegedly operating an online catering service, Omachi’s kitchen, through which she sells drugged cookies and biscuits. Following intelligence and surveillance, narcotic officers of the Edo State Command of the Agency on Saturday, June 19, 2021, stormed her…

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Heritage Bank staff protest at Sen. Andy Uba’s Abuja residence over unpaid loan

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A video surfaced online on Monday, showing how some staff of Heritage Bank Plc besieged the residence of Andy Uba, a former senator from Anambra State, who once served as an aide to former President Obasanjo. The staff of the bank, displayed placards, as they gathered in front of his residence in Abuja, asking the politician to repay the loan he collected to save their job. One of the bankers at the scene said in the video that, they are appealing to the former senator to “kindly pay this money…

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Suspected bandit in possession of military kits arrested by the Nigerian Army

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The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu said in a statement that, the Nigerian Army troops operating along Mokwa-Jebba road, intercepted and arrested a fleeing bandit in a vehicle travelling from Zuru to Ibadan during a stop and search operation on Sunday. Nwachukwu said the vigilant troops spotted an occupant of the vehicle, who claimed to be Sgt. Aminu Sule. He said the suspect was found to be in possession of a pair of camouflage, military boots, knife and substance suspected to be charms. He said on further interrogation,…

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15 victims escape bandits’ den after drunken guard sleeps off

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About 15 persons abducted by bandits in Tegina town of Niger State, fortunately escaped from their abductors on Sunday, when the stationed guard mounting the house they were kept, slept off. The 15 were among the adults abducted together with 156 pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamic School more than two weeks ago but were said to be separated from the children before been taken to a forest in Zamfara State. According to reports, the 15 victims managed to open the door of the house in which they were locked in…

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NDLEA arrests officer, wife for selling illicit drugs

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A serving officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has been arrested for his involvement in the selling of assorted illicit drugs to students of a federal university and cultists in Ogun state. Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that the drug dealer who served in the Lagos state Command of the security agency was arrested on Wednesday, June 15. This, he said, was after days of…

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Kebbi State NUT shuts 7 schools indefinitely

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State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Alhaji Isah Arzika said about seven schools in Kebbi State has been shutdown indefinitely in the aftermath of the attack on Federal Government College (FGC), Birnin Yauri, by suspected bandits. He said that those affected were schools located on the frontlines of the areas prone to attacks by suspected bandits. He said that the government had directed all school principals to close any school which they believed were not safe, adding that police and vigilantes had also been deployed to the…

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16-year-old girl fakes own kidnap, collects N500,000 ransom

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Ekiti State Police command has arrested a 16-year-old girl, Abimbola Suluka alongside her boyfriend, Oluwaseun Olajide for allegedly kidnapping herself to raise the sum of N500,000. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Sunday Abutu in a statement issued on Saturday, June 19th, said they were arrested on Thursday in a hotel in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital where they lodged. Abimbola is alleged to have conspired with her 25-year-old boyfriend and two of his friends to stage the abduction so as to raise money and relocate from the state following…

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Dangote truck set ablaze for killing two persons in Ogun

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A truck belonging to Dangote cement company was set ablaze by a mob, shortly after it crushed a commercial motorcyclist and a passenger to death along the Ilaro-Ibese Road in Ogun State. In protest, the mob blocked the road and set the truck ablaze while the driver fled the scene, to avoid being lynched. The incident made some travellers on the road stranded for hours, restricting vehicular movements. According to an eyewitness, one of the corpses of the victims had been deposited at Ilaro General Hospital morgue, while the other…

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Intensive care unit of Premier hospital shut down over chef’s death

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The death of the celebrated chef, and CEO of I Luv Desserts, Adepeju Ugboma who allegedly died from surgery complications, has made the State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency to shut down the Intensive Care Unit of Premier Specialists’ Medical Centre, Victoria Island. Peju, as she is fondly addressed, died after undergoing a botched surgery for fibroid related ailment at the hospital. The late microbiologist was said to have suffered internal bleeding after the surgery, which made her condition to deteriorate and she was later admitted to the intensive…

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Anambra 2021: Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah picks YPP governorship ticket

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Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, representing Anambra South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, for the November 6, Anambra election. Ubah emerged unopposed at a primary election organised by the party in Abuja, on Thursday. He was subsequently cleared by the party leadership to pick the ticket. In his acceptance speech, Ubah allayed the fears of Nigerians about the crisis in the South-East. He expressed confidence that the insecurity in the region would not affect the conduct of the polls while…

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