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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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A twelve-year-old girl who was kidnapped in Ketu area of Lagos State on Friday has been rescued by policemen attached to Mowe Division in Ogun State. A suspected member of the kidnap syndicate was also arrested during the rescue operation at the early hours of yesterday, in an hotel at Orimeranmu area of Mowe. The teenager , Eniola Oyekanmi, was abducted at about 4pm, while running an errand for her parents. Thereafter, the kidnappers contacted her parents, demanding N2 million ransom for her release. Her distraught father was said to have…

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Jude Ndukwe, an aide to former aviation minister, Femi Femi-Kayode, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of planning to kill his principal who was re-arrested on Friday in Abuja. Mr. Ndukwe says the EFCC intends to poison the outspoken opposition politician. He said in a statement that the arrest of Mr. Fani-Kayode, after he had been granted bail, was in furtherance of the purpose of silencing the opposition under the guise of fighting corruption. “We are therefore aghast but not surprised that this latest action of the…

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Following a reported “chemical incident” that left 26 travellers feeling unwell, hundreds of passengers and staff were evacuated from London City airport on Friday. “We are treating 26 patients at the scene for difficulty breathing,” the London Ambulance Service said, adding that two of them were taken to hospital. A “hazardous area response team” was also sent to the airport in east London, which caters mainly for business travellers and short-haul flights. The London Fire Brigade in a statement said firefighters and police officers had carried out two full sweeps…

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According to a private member bill sponsored by the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa, Lagos State Government may soon join the growing number of states including Edo, Ogun and Anambra that have imposed death sentence on “any person, who kidnaps, abducts, detains or captures or takes another person by any means or tricks with intent to demand ransom or do anything against his/her, will commit an offence, and liable to a conviction of death sentence. The bill, which is titled: ‘A bill for a law…

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Suspended Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin, on Friday, withdrew the legal action he instituted against Speaker of the House, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, over alleged budget padding. Jubrin had dragged Dogara and 13 other lawmakers before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, alleging that they surreptitiously padded the 2016 budget with about N40billion. He told the court that his colleagues were plotting to implicate and make him “a scapegoat” after he revealed how N40bn out of N100bn allocated to the entire National…

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It has been confirmed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, that the substance found in a container imported by an Ikeja-based multinational roofing materials company (names withheld) is cocaine. The Head of Public Affairs of NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, said the drug was worth over N2 billion. He said that the substance weighed 214.732kg and that investigation had begun. It will be recalled that the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, said it discovered a substance suspected to be cocaine in one of the seven containers brought…

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Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, whose home was raided by operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, has opened fresh can of worms, alleging that his ordeal was a function of his refusal at various times, to help the All Progressives Congress, APC, to pervert justice in governorship election disputes involving Ekiti, Rivers and Ebonyi states. Justice Ngwuta, in a letter dated October 18, which he forwarded to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed and the National Judicial Council, NJC, specifically fingered the Minister…

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The suit by the Federal Government against Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nig. Limited and its subsidiary, Shell Western Supply and Trading Limited, over alleged crude oil theft has been adjourned till December 8, 2016 by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday. Counsel to the Federal Government in the suit is Prof. Fabian Ajogwu, SAN. The case was adjourned following the absence of the trial judge, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun. The plaintiff has, meanwhile, filed an amended statement of claim, which is yet to  be moved. Government in the…

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