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President Buhari appoints wife as member of C’ttee for elimination of drug abuse

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President Muhammadu Buhari, has appointed his wife, Dr. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari as member of Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse. The Committee has the former Military Administration of Lagos, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, retd, as its chairman. President Buhari also inaugurated the Ministerial Steering Committee which is headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha. The president presides over Inauguration of Two-Tier Presidential Intervention Structure on the Elimination of Drug Abuse in State House, Monday. Inaugurating the two committees at the Presidential…

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Pastor arrested for defiling church member’s twin daughters

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Mike Oliseh, a 54-year-old assistant Pastor of the Anointed Chosen Vessel Ministry, Okota, Lagos, has been detained at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, for allegedly defiling the 12-year-old twin daughters of a church member and close friend. It was gathered that while Oliseh allegedly penetrated the private parts of the first victim, he allegedly  inserted his fingers in the private parts of the twin sister. It was learnt that Oliseh, an indigene of Delta State, and the girls’ father, Obi (not real name) lived on Ago Palace Way,…

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BEDC refutes fictitious information on license withdrawal message by EDO by EDOSCO

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The attention of the Management of BEDC Electricity PLC (BEDC), has been drawn to a fictitious online publication posted by the Edo State Civil Societies Organization (EDOSCO) that the operating license of BEDC has been withdrawn and that customers in Benin, should not pay for electricity based on this position. We wish to strongly condemn the publication in its entirety which is a propaganda by EDOSCO, an organization peddling misinformation, after BEDC instituted court cases against some of it’s members for illegal tampering with power equipments. Our esteemed customers should…

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Man sentenced to 15years imprisonment for having sex with pregnant goat

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Reuben Mwamba, a 22-year-old man, who admitted having sex with a pregnant goat, has had his jail term extended to 15 years. Mwamba was previously imprisoned by a court in Zambia for five years but prosecutors were outraged, so they took his case to a higher court. Now the Kasama High Court has sentenced the 22-year-old to 15 years of hard labour. The court was told that Mwamba of Mutono village had broken section 155 (b) of the Penal Code, Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia. But prosecutors demanded…

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Reps approve June 12 as Democracy Day

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June 12 has been approved by the House of Representatives on Thursday as Democracy Day in Nigeria. The current date, May 29, was deleted from the Public Holidays Act and replaced with the new date. The presidential election acclaimed to be the freest and fairest in the country’s history was held on June 12, 1993, but the results were annulled by the then military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. The approval followed the adoption of a report by the Committee of the Whole on a bill seeking to amend the Public…

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Teacher defiles five-year-old pupil in Ondo

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Ebenezer Adeyeye, a primary school teacher, has been remanded in prison custody by a magistrate court sitting in Okitipupa, in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. Adeyeye, was accused of defiling a five-year-old pupil inside the school’s toilet in Okitipupa. He was arrested by the men of the Ondo State Police Command on November 7, 2018. The accused was said to have lured the victim to the school toilet, where he allegedly had a carnal knowledge of her. He was arraigned on one count of rape. According to…

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Intersociety to Vatican -Retrain Mbaka

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The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, yesterday called on the Third Vatican Council to retrain the  Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, following the alleged humiliation of the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,   Peter Obi by the priest. The society says doing so “will help in saving the image of the Catholic Church and its people of good conscience, as Enugu Adoration Spiritual Director is in dire need of fresh ideas and higher studies.” Intersociety also called on…

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Jamil Isyaku Gwamna: Buhari, APC Do Not Need Campaign To Defeat PDP In 2019

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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe State, Dr. Jamil Isyaku Gwamna on Wednesday said the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari were visible enough for APC to defeat the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the next general elections come 2019. Dr. Gwamna who is the Sardaunan Gombe, made this disclosure, saying that the people-oriented programmes and policies of the Federal Government would make APC defeat any opposition in 2019 with ease. He insisted that it would be difficult for the PDP or any party to convince those…

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Small Doctor arrested over illegal possession of firearms

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Hip-pop musician, Temitope Adekunle, a.k.a. Small Doctor was yesterday released from custody by an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court, alongside three of his band members on a bail bond of N5 million each. They were counseled to be of good behaviour. Co-defendants in the suit filed by the police are Dare Osho, Sanusi Lateef and Hussein Darego. Small Doctor was set free from police custody with a warning not to engage in any violent act for the next one year. The court ruled in his favour after he was arraigned…

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Scientists invent gel that may stop sperm production

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Scientists in the United States will soon start human trials of a male birth control gel, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Wednesday. Currently, the only approved male contraceptives are condoms or vasectomies, surgical procedures to block sperm. There are myriad forms of birth control for women and they often come with complicated and disruptive side effects. If it proves safe and effective, it would be the first new birth control for men since the condom was introduced in the 1800s. Between condoms and female birth controls, we now…

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