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Pastor killed after kidnappers received N2m ransom

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A Lagos based pastor, Fredrick Aramuwa abducted by hoodlums on the Idoani-Ifira Road, in Ondo State on March 31st, has been found dead on Easter Sunday and his lifeless body, dumped by beside the road. It was gathered that, the pastor was going to Ifira Akoko from Lagos, with his driver when he got missing. It was later discovered that the deceased pastor was abducted a few kilometres to Ifira, his home town. The source said, “Contacts were made with Lagos and his departure was confirmed. The community started searching…

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Security facilities attacked in Imo by gunmen, inmates set free

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Unidentified gunmen reportedly attacked a correctional facility in Owerri, the Imo State capital, and freed inmates. The Imo State Police Command headquarters and SCID building situated in the state capital were also attacked in the early morning raid, which a security source said started around 1 am. Although the police said “some inmates” were freed, a media report claimed as much as 1, 500 inmates escaped. “At about 0100hrs of date, armed men suspected to be members of IPOB/ESN criminal gang in their numbers invaded Owerri Prisons mine using dynamites…

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Austrian Catholics fly rainbow flag in solidarity for LGBT

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Following the Vatican decision last month that the Church couldn’t bless same-sex partnerships, the Catholic church of the parish of Hard is one of many in Austria which decided to fly the rainbow flag in solidarity with the LGBT community . The powerful Vatican office responsible for defending church doctrine, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), handed down a ruling that same-sex unions could not be blessed despite their “positive elements”. The office wrote that while God “never ceases to bless each of His pilgrim children in this…

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NAF says Fighter jet not shot down by Boko Haram

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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said its Alpha fighter jet, marked NAF 475 was not shot down last Wednesday by Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa Forest of Borno.   The jet was reported missing on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, after losing radar contact with the air force base, Maiduguri, the state capital. While denying the alleged false report in a statement yesterday in Maiduguri, NAF’s Director of Public Relations, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet said: “Our attention has been drawn to some videos being circulated on Social Media and media…

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Covid-19: Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin is dead

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Yinka Odumakin, the National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere dead. Report has it that, Odumakin died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital’s Covid Isolation Centre. Yinka, a human rights activist, who is married to a fellow activist, Joe Okei Odumakin, played a major role in the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO that fought the regime of late military head of state, General Sani Abacha, after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election. As Afenifere spokesman, Odumakin spoke tenaciously for the rights of the Yoruba and the people…

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Reno Omokri leads protest against Buhari’s medical tourism in UK

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Pastor Reno Omokri, a social media activist and former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan flew from his base in the United States of America to lead protest against Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari who left Nigeria for medical attention in the United Kingdom. The rally, tagged #HarassBuhariOutofLondon took place on April 2, 2021 at President Muhammadu Buhari’s residence, Abuja House, 2 Campden Hill, Kensington, London W8 7AD. According to Omokri, “The rally was held in strict compliance with COVID19 protocols with protesters massing in groups of six.” He said the London…

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Resident doctors’ strike paralyses activities in government hospitals

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The ongoing strike by resident doctors in the country may have paralysed activities in 98 per cent of government hospitals nationwide, as doctors refused to admit patients, while most of those on admission are not getting adequate attention. While patients and their relatives were groaning in despair due to neglect, most of the hospitals had started discharging patients, with the alternative to seek medical attention from private hospitals. Resident doctors in most of the hospitals complied fully with the strike directive from their parent body. Only medical consultants and nurses…

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Covid-19: NCDC records 106 new infections, total now 162,997

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 106 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,997. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. The country’s daily new cases continue to follow a downward trajectory, from an all-time high of 2,314 on Jan. 22, the country’s daily new positive cases came down to 48, as at March 29. The agency stated that the country have tested 1,767,694 people since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic…

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Traders protest seizure of rice worth millions of naira at Bodija market

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Hundreds of traders at the Bodija market in Ibadan, yesterday protested the seizure of bags of rice worth millions of Naira by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). The traders took to the streets of Ibadan to protest against what they called invasion of their shops by men of the Custom service who they alleged broke into shops at midnight to seize the bags of rice. The rice traders; both men and women, who were seen carrying placards with various inscriptions, called on the customs authority to return all…

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Corruption pervasive in Nigeria government including judiciary – US

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The Nigerian government has been accused by the United States of massive corruption and stifling of free speech in 2020. The US stated this in the ‘2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,’ released on Tuesday. In their separate reactions on Wednesday, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and a former President of the  Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Malachy Ugwumadu, berated the regime of Muhammadu Buhari. Expressing concern about corruption in Nigeria, the US, in the report, stated that it was widespread and pervasive at all levels of…

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