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The immediate demotion of Malam Nuradeen Abubakar, the Principal, Unity Junior Secondary School, Malumfashi and Malam Yakub Ibrahim, Head Teacher, Rimaye Model Primary School, Kankia, has been ordered by Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State. Alhaji Abdu Labaran, the Senior Special Assistant on Media to the governor, made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday in Katsina. Masari directed that the duo should be redeployed as classroom teachers. He also warned the Principal of the senior section of the Unity Secondary School Malumfashi, Malam Nasiru Muazu, to-sit up and…

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21 victims have given mass burial as the death toll in the attack at Epogi community of Mokwa Local Government Area, Niger State has risen to 27, while the state government has vowed that the perpetrators will be brought to book. The Director-General of Niger State Emergency Management Agency, NSEMA, Mr. Ibrahim Inga, disclosed yesterday in Minna that 21 people were killed in the attack, while three bodies were recovered from a river. Inga said three other victims died at the Federal Medical Centre, Bida, bringing the total number of deaths…

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At the inauguration of pedestrian bridges, a lay-by and a slip road at Berger bus stop, the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday said Vehicles Inspection Officers have been permanently banned from all Lagos roads. The governor also asked the Federal Road Safety Corps to restrict the operations of its men to highways and stay off state roads. The governor said the VIOs and the FRSC contributed significantly to gridlock in the state, adding that his government would employ technology to track and monitor vehicle registration and certification. “The…

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In honour of the late retired Maj.Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo, a former Military Governor of the old Western region, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has declared May 19, work free day in the state . Fayose announced the date in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday during a meeting with members and executives of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS). The governor said that nothing would be too big to honour the late Adebayo, having paid his dues and contributed immensely to the growth and development of Yorubaland. “In this…

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Fresh batch of deportees from Libya arrived the cargo section of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos yesterday with gory tales. The deportees arrived the cargo section of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 10.00pm aboard an Airbus A333-200 and were received at the Hajj Terminal by the National Emergency Management Agency. They narrated how they were brutalised like animals in Libya. Mr Akhere Ken, one of the deportees from Edo State, said he has been in detention in Libya in the past one year after he was…

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In order to enhance community policing, Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has said that policemen would soon be deployed to their communities of origin. The IGP told a security stakeholders’ meeting in Lokoja that the bulk of the 150,000 policemen to be recruited over the next five years would serve in their respective communities. Idris, who was represented by Shaibu Gambo, Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Finance and Administration, said that the move was to take the police closer to the people. He said that the…

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Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom, Oba Fredrick Akinruntan, has described himself as the leader of all Yoruba Obas. Olugbo had while speaking at an event in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Sunday, said, “I am the leader of all obas in Yorubaland. I speak with thunder in my mouth and I make bold to say so. No one is above me in Yorubaland inasmuch as it has been accepted that we are from Ife. I am the one that Oduduwa met at Ife. We are the husband of Moremi Ajasoro.…

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Khadija Ibrahim, a 23- year -old spinster, on Monday sued her father, Bassa Ibrahim, before an Upper Area Court, Karu, Abuja, for not allowing her to marry a man of her choice. It was reported that Khadija told the court that she had a suitor, who was willing to marry her, but her father refused to give his consent. She said, “The man I want to marry has made several attempts to meet my father to discuss the wedding plan, but he always avoided him. “The only reason he gave…

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