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Dr. Reuben Abati, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, was yesterday invited for questioning by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged cash taken from office of the embattled National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, retd. Abati, who arrived the EFCC on Formella Street, Wuse 2 in Abuja, was questioned by the operatives on the various sums of money he allegedly collected from the ONSA. The former presidential spokesman was still being quizzed as at the time of filing the report and it was…

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Contrary to the accusations by the EFCC against former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said that it was impossible for his former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, to have stolen $2.2 billion. Responding to questions after his lecture on Youth Entrepreneurship at the famous Oxford Union in the United Kingdom, former President Goodluck Jonathan, said: “They said the National Security Adviser (Sambo Dasuki) stole $2.2billion. I don’t believe somebody can just steal $2.2 billion. We bought warships, we bought aircraft, we bought lots…

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Panic and protest, greeted the arrival and settlement of over 200 herdsmen and their cows at Agu Obodo, Obeagwu Ozalla in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State yesterday. The protesting community members said they were overwhelmed by over five trucks that off-loaded the herdsmen, their families and cows in the community and is asking the herdsmen to leave their land within three days as their people can no longer go to their farms. President-General of Ozalla Development Union, ODU, Chief Afam Ani, who led the protesting women, youths…

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In a statement issued on Monday, former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase denied the allegation that some Police vehicles were missing (19) during his tenure. Arase rubbished the claims of the recoveries just as he raised an alarm that some forces were bent on tarnishing his image The ex-IGP’s reaction is coming on the heels of a similar one on July 18 and following another media report that 19 out of 24 vehicles he allegedly took away upon retirement had been recovered from him. In a statement issued on…

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In its public enlightenment series number three, signed by its spokespersons Mr Emma Nmezu, a lawyer, and Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said that the people who actually committed treason against Nigeria and should be languishing in prison are now the people pretending to love the country. IPOB said that President Muhammadu Buhari has no moral justification to talk about, or accuse anybody in the country of committing treason having committed it several times and went scot free. Muhammadu Buhari, who is today the President…

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A bill has been passed by the Ogun State House Assembly on Tuesday to curb the illegal act of land grabbers popularly called ‘omo oniles’. It is no longer business as usual for land grabbers in Ogun State whose activities have caused many deaths and breakdown of law and order, with the proposed 25 years jail term for anyone found guilty of involvement in the act. The activities of the land grabbers are a well-known issue to land owners preparing to put up structures on their landed property in Ogun…

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Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has disclosed that his government is to acquire 5.5-megawatt biomass plant from Germany which would utilize rice husk and other available waste materials to generate electricity. Governor David Umahi, who made this known after inspecting two of the three state-owned rice modern mills, said the plant would arrive the country in the next four months. He disclosed that one megawatt of rice husk plant and another 500 kilowatt would arrive the state soon. The inspection visit took the governor to Iboko in Izzi Local…

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