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CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Police Force Public Relations Officer, has said no Nigerian has the right to confront policemen or retaliate, even if the cop slapped a ‘civilian’. Speaking through his Twitter account, the Force PRO advised any such victim of Police brutality to rather file a complaint with the law enforcement agency. He was reacting to a viral video of a man dragging a rifle with a policeman during a heated argument and suspicious molestation over his phone. Adejobi further stated that if a person assaults police personnel in uniform,…

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Experts have warned that if prevailing socio-economic challenges and other triggers are not addressed within the shortest period, Nigeria’s inflation rate may spiral above 50 per cent as it currently stands at 20.52 percent, representing the highest rate since September 2005 and still rising.     While inflation concerns are not peculiar to Nigeria, the circumstances driving the surge are peculiar, especially, in the form of poor earnings from natural resources, as a result of theft, sabotage, insecurity and banditry, which have affected local production; foreign exchange concerns, huge expenditure and…

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Lagos State Government through its Ministry of Justice and the state Task Force held a public auction for over 134 abandoned and seized vehicles at Lagos State Task Force headquarters, Alausa, Ikeja, where auctioneers, agents, buyers, and vehicle owners tried to outwit one another. A widow, 49, Dorothy Dike, and her son, Osinachi Ndukwe, wept openly as they begged for price reduction while their only vehicle bought at the rate of N1.8 million on hired purchase was being auctioned for N450,000. A private auction house took charge of the event…

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Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities is willing to end it’s seven month strike. Osodeke, however, said this could only be achieved if concrete agreements are reached with the Federal Government. He gave the assurance in Abuja, yesterday, at a National Town Hall Meeting on Tertiary Education tagged: ‘The Locked Gates of our Citadels -A National Emergency.’ Recall that the union embarked on industrial action on February 14, making it over seven months since public universities across the country were closed down. The Federal Government…

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Alhaji Musiliu Smith, Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), has resigned from his position. PSC spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, confirmed the development last night. According to him, Smith resigned on “health grounds,” adding that the commission will issue an official statement regarding the development today. In the interim, the second most senior Commissioner in the PSC, Retired Supreme Court Justice, Clara Ogunbiyi, who is representing the judiciary has assumed duty as Chairman. The retired Inspector General of Police had been at loggerhead with the police hierarchy, particularly the Inspector General…

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Annastasia Olamma, a 24-year-old female skit maker, has said her family is against her decision to donate one of her kidneys to Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of a former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. Olamma had on Tuesday made the offer after Sonia announced that she needed a kidney donor because she had been diagnosed with rare kidney disease, FSGS Nephrotic Syndrome. Sonia made the announcement on social media months after her parents were arrested in the United Kingdom and charged by the UK Metropolitan Police with conspiracy…

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