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APC Will Takeover Akwa Ibom Like When Hitler Invaded Poland – Akpabio

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Godswill AKpabio, a former Senate Minority Leader, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, will take over Akwa Ibom State in 2019 just like the late German dictator, Adolf Hitler took over Poland. He said just like Hitler invaded Poland in 1940, same way APC will overrun the state. He said this over the weekend at the funeral Mass of his grandmother-in-law, late Madam Mercy Uduoku Neife Igwenagu, at Christ the king Parish, Aguobu-Owa, Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State. According to Akpabio, “Recently, I had an occasion in…

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Japan send basketball players home for spending night with women

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Four players have been sent home by Japan from their Asian Games basketball team, for spending the night with women in a Jakarta hotel. The head of the delegation Yasuhiro Yamashita, said on Monday. The players left the athletes’ village, following their game against Qatar on Thursday to eat at a restaurant where they met a Japanese-speaking local. They were then told about a bar where they could meet women, Yamashita told a news conference. The quartet, who were wearing their team uniforms, spent a couple of hours at the…

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Woman gets married for the first time at age 60

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Teresiah Njoki, a 60-year-old woman,  on Sunday got married for the first time, to a 78-year-old widower, Ayub Mugo Waitara. Waitara, a grandfather, said he had been lonely for the past 10 years. He revealed how he met his bride, “In 2017 while on a private business in Thika town, I saw a woman who appeared very special to me, a strong feeling of love hit me and I decided to follow her. I stopped and asked her out for tea which she obliged. While at the restaurant, we exchanged phone numbers…

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Death toll hits 10 as multiple quakes rock Indonesia’s Lombok island

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At least 10 people have been reported dead as series of powerful earthquakes rock the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, killing and setting off fresh waves of panic after nearly 500 died there following a huge tremor two weeks ago. The quakes hit throughout Sunday, with the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fleeing for cover as parts of the island suffered blackouts. It was followed nearly 12 hours later by a quake measuring 6.9 magnitude and a string of powerful aftershocks. The picturesque…

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Wife stabs husband to death over suspicion of keeping girlfriends

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The Ughelli Police Area Command has arrested a woman for allegedly stabbing her husband to death during a domestic fight after she accused him of engaging in extra-marital affairs. The suspect, Ese Eregarhe, 32, purportedly used a kitchen knife to stab her husband, who is in his late 30s at their Agbarha-Otor residence in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Confirming the incident, a senior officer at the Ughelli Police Area Command said that the suspect had accused the victim of having a string of girlfriends who keep…

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IPOB threatens civil uprising over alleged detention of Imo women

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Security operatives have been given the close of business today to release all the Imo State women allegedly arrested, during their peaceful protest indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday gave the directive, threatening to cause civil uprising if its demand was not met. IPOB’s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement, described as sacrilegious the arrest, detention and torture of the women under what it called most appalling condition. According to IPOB, the women were being detained at Okehi Police Station in Etche, Rivers State. The statement read”…

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Inept government threatens Nigeria’s existence —Briggs

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Annkio Briggs, Justice and equity advocate, has called on the international community to rescue Nigeria from the brink of self destruction over inability to govern well. Briggs, who spoke at a coalition of rights groups from across the nation, hosted by her group, Niger Delta Self Determination Movement, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said: “Before us is a nation at war with itself but in denial because an inept government refuses to take responsibility for governance. In 2018 alone, thousands of our compatriots were massacred in their homes, farmlands and…

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Retired Judge Mobilizes Funds To Rebuild Ayefele’s Fresh FM

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A retired Judge and Deputy Governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress in Osun State, Justice Olamide Oloyode ( retd), has started mobilising donors to assist Yinka Ayefele, in reviving his demolished Fresh FM building. Oloyede, who was retired by the National Judicial Council for publicly criticising Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola for his alleged failure, said this in a statement made available to The Punch. The retired judge, who is also the Lead Advocate, Virtues Unlimited Restorative Justice Initiative, urged Nigerians to come to the aid of the wheelchair-bound…

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LASG To Close 3rd Mainland Bridge Temporarily

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Lagos State Government has said the Third Mainland Bridge would be temporarily shut down for four days starting from midnight of August 23 to midnight of August 26 for “investigative maintenance test” to be carried out. The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya who stated this in a statement today, said the decision was taken after due consultation with the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. The four-day closure, according to Akinsanya, will enable the contractors assess the true state of the bridge after which repair works would…

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Buhari returns from 10-day working vacation

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Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari has returned from his 10- day working vacation on Saturday. He promised that his administration would jail more looters who caused the nation’s economic woes. Buhari made the promise in an interview he granted shortly after he returned to the country from London, United Kingdom. When asked what Nigerians should expect from him on resumption, the President said, “Most Nigerians are expecting that we are going to jail more of the thieves that brought economic problem to the country. I think that is being expected of…

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