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To mark the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, the Federal Government has declared Friday, Sept. 1 and Monday, Sept. 4 as Public Holidays. The Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau‎, made the statement on behalf of the Federal Government on Monday in Abuja. Dr Rufai Attahiru, overseeing the Office of the Permanent Secretary in the ministry signed the statement in Abuja on Monday. The minister urged Muslim faithful and all Nigerians to use the occasion to pray for peace, unity, prosperity and the stability of the country’s democracy. Dambazau called on Nigerians…

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Senator Hamman Isah Misau, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, was yesterday declared wanted by the Police for forgery. The Police had earlier declared the senator a deserter who absconded from duty on September 24, 2010 and asked the Senate Ethics and Privileges Committee to prevail on the senator to make himself available to face the Force disciplinary committee  for acts of serious misconduct and unprofessional doings. Senator Misau had last Friday accused the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to account for the N10 billion Police internally generated revenue, which…

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Private companies have been banned from demanding female employees to wear high-heeled shoes at work places in the Philippines. According to a labour group that proposed the new directive, the order makes the Philippines the first country in Asia to ban the mandatory wearing of high heels in the workplace. “We hope that the regulation will also be copied and applied for the benefit of workers in the entire Asia region,” said Alan Tanjusay, a spokesman for the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines. “With this regulation, millions…

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One person was feared dead while other passers-by sustained bullet wounds as police engaged armed robbers in a gun duel yesterday following a daylight robbery by suspected armed robbers along Wellington Bassey Way in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital. Eyewitness revealed that the robbers had trailed a Toyota Camry car with Akwa Ibom State plate number AK705 C01, whom they suspected to have made some withdrawal in one of the second generation banks along the road, name withheld. It was gathered that being a busy road leading to the state…

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Modinat Mufutau, a middle aged woman married to two husbands in Ibadan has gotten the leave of a Customary Court to divorce one of the husbands. The woman told an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi in Ibadan how she alternated two husbands in order to satisfy herself and get enough money to take care of her three children. Modinat had begged the court to dissolve her 12-year-old relationship to one of her husbands, Ajadi Mufutau, for alleged lack of care and maltreatment. She told the court that she met Mufutau in…

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The deputy governor of Madina region, Sheikh Mohammad Albijawi has apologized on behalf of the Saudi government over two Nigerian pilgrims maltreated by security personnel at the Prince Muhammad Bn Abdulaziz Airport in Madina. Audu Muhammad and Ibrahim Godi, both from Nasarawa State, were reportedly brutalised by customs officers shortly after their arrival in the holy city. The deputy governor of Madina region, Sheikh Mohammad Albijawi, who tendered the apology during a visit to the victims, vowed that the security officials, who offended the pilgrims, would be sanctioned. He urged…

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