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27 rifles recovered in Niger by NDLEA officials

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27 new firearms has been recovered from two suspects during a routine stop-and-search operation in Kontagora area of Niger State by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).   The suspects: Danjuma Auta, 35, and Daniel Danrangi, 25, both male and from Dirin Daji, Sakaba Local Government Area of Kebbi State were arrested along Kontagora-Zuru road, Niger on Monday night.   According to the Niger Commander of the agency, Mr. Aloye Isaac Oludare, the duo were arrested with 12 locally-fabricated AK-47 rifles and 15 locally-fabricated pistols. The rifles…

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Commercial driver arrested with human heads in Ondo

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Hassan Saka, a commercial driver, has been arrested by men of the Ondo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday, with two human heads. The suspect, was reportedly arrested with the two heads hid in a brown carton. The state Commander of the NDLEA, Mr Haruna Gagara, at the state command headquarters in Akure, said, “Saka was arrested by men of the command who were on stop and search duty along the Akure-Owo Expressway.” The suspect, who said he had been plying the Akure- Okene (Kogi…

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172 persons arrested at Cubana nightclub fined N6.8m

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172 persons arrested by the Lagos state police command for violating COVID-19 protocols, have been convicted by a mobile court sitting at the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit in Oshodi. The state police command said on Monday that the presiding judge ordered each of the 172 violators to pay a fine of N40,000, and also sentenced them to community service. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had while parading them at the command headquarters in Ikeja, said the 172 persons were arrested during…

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President Buhari says Jangebe school abduction will be the last

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President Muhammadu Buhari has given assurance to Nigerians that, last Friday’ abduction of female students from Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe, will be the last to happen in the country. The president’s statement was relayed on Sunday, through Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, who led a high-powered federal government delegation to sympathise with the people and government of Zamfara State. He said new measures had been developed by the federal government which would bring a complete end to all forms of criminality in the nation. “The President is…

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Covid-19: Nigeria records 155,417 cases in 1 year

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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 341 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 155,417. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday. Exactly one year ago, Feb. 27, 2020, Nigeria recorded its COVID-19 index case, believed to be the first in Sub-Saharan Africa. Till date, 155417 cases of the disease have been confirmed, while 133,256 patients have been discharged and 1,905 COVID-19 related deaths recorded in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In…

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New York governor accused by a second woman of sexual harassment

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‌ New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has been accused of sexual harrassment by a second ex-employee . This time the allegations came from 25-year-old former health adviser Charlotte Bennett, who told said the governor sexually harassed her in the spring of 2020. According to Bennett, the 63-year-old politician said in June that he was open to dating women in their 20s, and asked her if she thought age made a difference in romantic relationships. While Cuomo never tried to touch her, “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep…

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Insecurity: Kano State shut down 10 boarding schools

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Kano State Government has officially shut down 10 boarding schools in the outskirts of the state to avoid a repeat of the insessant kidnappings of school children going on in the northern parts of the country. The state Commissioner for Education, Muhammad Sunusi Kiru, disclosed this in a short audio message over the radio stations in the state yesterday night. The Education Commissioner said the closure became necessary due to the rising number of abductions of school children in neighbouring states. The closed schools are situated at Ajingi, Sumaila, Jogana,…

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President Buhari’s words are meaningless -Aisha Yesufu

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Aisha’s Yesufu, the human rights activist, who was a strong member of the #Bring Back Our Girls Movement, which was on the frontline of the campaign for the release of students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, in 2014, has carpeted President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that, it is “meaningless”. Yesufu’s reaction was as a result of the abduction of the students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State, Yesufu said the primary responsibility of government is to protect lives. In a statement on Friday night, Buhari…

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Sunday Igboho attacked by DSS operatives on Lagos-Ibadan expressway

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On his way to a meeting, popular activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Suni Igboho was said to have been attacked in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State by men of the Department of State Security(DSS). The armed DSS was said to have attacked Sunday Igboho at Guru Maraj’s area in Ibadan on Friday, but his arrest was halted by his men who put up resistance. Sunday Igboho, while speaking with newsmen, lamented that he was disappointed that he was attacked without committing any offence by men of DSS who on…

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Bandits raid dormitory, kidnap school girls in Zamfara

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Armed bandits raided a school dormitory in Zamfara overnight, raising fears of another mass kidnapping in the Northern region. Reports say more than 300 girls are unaccounted for after a headcount of remaining students, said a teacher at the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe. He said the attack happened around 1:00 am (midnight GMT) on Friday, but did not provide details on the number of students present in the school at the time. Heavily-armed criminal gangs in northwest and central Nigeria have stepped up attacks in recent years, kidnapping…

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