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Petroleum Tankers Drivers (PTD) section of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has insisted that there is no going back on their planned strike despite assurance from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it has intervened to avert the strike action. NUPENG’s national President, Igwe Achese, who released the communiqué in Lagos at the end of its Central Working Committee meeting held at the union’s secretariat in Yaba, said the strike would draw the attention of the Federal Government and other stakeholders to some unresolved…

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Lt. General Ishaya Bamaiyi, Nigeria’s former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), has described the infamous Abacha’s loot has a creation of the Nigerian media, stating that the former Nigerian head of state, General Sani Abacha, never looted the country’s treasury. Bamaiyi spoke at the launching of a tell-all memoir which covers his extensive military career in Abuja. He insisted that, to the best of his knowledge, Abacha decided that funds should be kept in places where they could be easily accessed. “I am not defending Abacha, I am not saying…

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For unlawfully invading TVC television, a Special Offences Mobile Court in Oshodi, Lagos, has ordered the remand of 13 students of the University of Lagos, who were arraigned before it by the police, Saturday . The accused Femi Adeyeye, Toni Aina, Kodri Yaya, Asimi Oladime, Ismahim Olalekan, Segun Okesola, Abdulazeez Soneye, Idris Abogunloko, Muyiwa Olaniyi, Toheed Oladimeji, Joseph Akanni, Lukumon Olusegun, and Abiodun Agbeniyi, were ordered remanded at Kirikiri prisons, Lagos. They were arraigned before Chief Magistrate P.E Nwaka, on two counts charge of unlawful invasion and disruption of activities.…

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Pulka village residents in Borno have revealed that Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids on Friday. In the first attack on Thursday, the jihadists raided the village of Pulka near border with Cameroon where they kidnapped 18 girls. “Boko Haram fighters from Mamman Nur camp arrived in pickup vans around 6:00 am and seized 14 young girls aged 17 and below while residents fled into the bush,” a Pulka community leader revealed. “They picked four other girls who were fleeing the raid they…

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Apostle Adebayo Abiola has been declared the Supreme Head of Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church by an Ikeja High Court, removing Apostle Solomon Alao. In a judgment, the trial judge, Justice Lawal-Akapo, restrained Apostle Alao from occupying the Office of the Supreme Head of Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church of perform the duties and functions of the Supreme Head of the Church. The judge also restrained Apostle David Salako from releasing or parting with the Staff of Office of the Supreme Head of Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church to the…

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