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UK PM Theresa May Announces Resignation

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Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close. The prime minister listed a series of what she said were her government’s achievements, including tackling the deficit, reducing unemployment and boosting funding for mental health. But she admitted: “It is and will alway remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.” May’s announcement came after a meeting…

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FG accuses Obasanjo of seeking to divide Nigeria in his old age

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The Federal Government has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of seeking to divide Nigeria in his old age over his comments that the Boko Haram insurgency has become an agenda to ‘Fulanise’ West Africa and Islamise Africa. The government in a statement by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, urged Obasanjo not to allow personal animosity override his love for a united Nigeria, saying it will not be out of place if he withdrew his statement and apologize to Nigerians. The government said comments imputing ethno-religious motive to…

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Kidnap suspect’s confession: We’re interested in newly-wed women

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Mohammed, a 25-year-old member of a suspected gang of kidnappers in the Kpakungu community in the Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State has confessed to the abduction of one Halima Ibrahim on May 11, 2019. The suspect was said to have kidnapped his victim and held her in captivity for over two weeks while demanding N150,000 ransom before her release. Yakubu confessed that he kidnapped Halima with the intent of extorting money from her would-be husband, who also resides in the same area. He said, “We are from the…

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Woman arrested for allegedly throwing 9-month-old baby into well

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A 17-year-old lady has been arrested in the Ekuigbo community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State following the death of a male child she allegedly threw into a well. Sources from the community said the mother was reported to have thrown her 9-month-old son into a well owing to her inability to carter for his welfare. The mother, identified as Eguonor Joseph, according to local sources, had dropped her baby, Harrison Joseph inside a well in the community at about 5a.m but the remains of the baby was…

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Ex-customs boss, Okafor, arraigned for alleged N3b fraud

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Bridget Okafor, a former Assistant Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday, on a 13-count charge bordering on a N3.336 billion sleaze. She was arraigned before Justice Venchak S. Gaba of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Kwali, Abuja, but she pleaded not guilty to the charges. One of the counts reads: “That Bridget Chienyezu Okafor, while in the public service and serving as ACG in charge of finance and revenue in 2015 at Abuja within the…

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Medical student commits suicide for failing exam

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Uzakah Ebiweni, a 300-level medical student of the Niger Delta University, Ammasoma in the Southern Ijaw Local Governmant Area of Bayelsa State, has committed suicide for failing his examination. Ebiweni was said to have dived into the Amassoma River and drowned before he could get help. Sources at the university said few hours after Ebiweni’s body was recovered, another student attempted to kill himself by running into a fast-moving motorcycle, but was rescued by other students. It was gathered that Ebiweni, a student of Surgery and Medicine at the Faculty…

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Dog rescues day-old baby buried alive by its mother

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An infant that was buried and left to die by its 15-year-old mother has been rescued by a three-legged dog on a farm. The incident happened in Korat’s Tha Talat community in Thailand and was reported by major local media. Eyewitnesses said the newborn had been buried in a cassava field, but nobody was aware. However, farmers noticed the dog sniffing around one spot, and they went ahead to dig out what was there and were surprised to dig out a living infant. Police soon apprehended a 15-year-old girl who has…

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111 beer bottles confiscated, 21 arrested by Hisbah in Jigawa

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The Sharia Law enforcement agency in Jigawa State, Hisbah, on Monday arrested 21 suspects allegedly committing immoral acts, while they also confiscated 111 bottles of beer from them. The Hisbah Commander in the state, Ibrahim Dahiru, who disclosed this in Dutse, said the suspects were arrested in Kazaure Local Government Area of the state. Dahiru said that operatives of the command carried out the raid in the early hours of Monday at the popular Gadar Kazaure joint. He explained that during the raid, 14 suspected commercial sex workers and seven men…

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NDLEA berates Akeredolu over call for legalisation of cannabis

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Plans by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, to begin the cultivation of Cannabis Sativa for medicinal and commercial purposes has been berated by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. In a statement by the Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Col. Muhammad Abdallah (retd), the agency denied Akeredolu, reminding the governor that Nigeria remained opposed to the legalisation and decriminialisation of cannabis, in line with the constitution of the country. Abdallah denied claims that he had visited Thailand with Akeredolu to learn how to grow Cannabis sativa for medicinal…

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Traditional ruler, retired police officer arrested for allegedly stealing transformers

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The traditional ruler of Ipene community in the Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State, Chief Paulinus Ogbor, and a retired police officer, identified simply as Onugh, have been arrested by the Ebonyi State Police Command, for allegedly stealing three transformers. The spokesperson for the command, DSP Loveth Odah, said that the duo were arrested by men of the 13 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Calabar, at Unwana in the Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Friday, and were handed over to the police for further investigation. It…

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