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About 5,667 rams and 993 cows have been distributed by Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State to civil servants and groups in the state to enable them celebrate Sallah. In a statement, the Director General to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Alhaji Yusuf Idris, said the gesture was part of Matawalle’s efforts to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Idris said, “Considering the high cost of essential commodities, especially the animals in the market, the governor found it imperative to buy and distribute the animals to civil servants…

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Following a protracted battle between the family of a late businessman, Victor Ekwerekwu, and his widow, Ndidiamaka Ekwerekwu, over the paternity of their nine-year-old child, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered that a DNA test be conducted on Chidera Ekwerekwu. The widow has gone to Justice D.A. Onyefulu of the Anambra State High Court for an order restraining the IG from releasing the result of the test conducted on the child. According to her, subjecting the child to a DNA test “amounts to slavery, servitude and a degrading…

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The Borno State Commissioner for Information, Babakura Jatau, has announced that 601 repentant terrorists who are being reintegrated into their communities have been given N20,000 stipends and some basic equipment to practise their respective vocations. Jatau said the funds and the starter packs were given to the repentant terrorists by the North East Development Commission and the International Organisation for Migration. He denied reports that the state government was giving each of the beneficiaries N100,000. The commissioner said only about 10 per cent of the 601 repentant terrorists were actually…

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An Ex-Boko Haram terrorist, who is in the custody of troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force, has said a factional leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, told them while in the forests that the Federal Government was insincere and cheated them. The surrendered terrorist, according to a release from MNJTF on Friday, added that Shekau was worse than those he condemned and he was happy to have escaped from the sect. In the release by the MNJTF Chief of Public Information, Col Timothy Antigha, 47 Boko Haram fighters surrendered…

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‌ Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, has been ordered by the Federal High Court in Abuja to appear for arraignment on money laundering charges preferred against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu gave the order in a ruling on an ex parte application shortly after it was moved by EFCC’s lawyer, Faruk Abdullah. The judge ordered the defendant who was alleged to have fled to the United Kingdom shortly after leaving office in 2015, to appear in court to answer to the…

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Two policemen, Assistant Superintendent of Police Tijani Olatunji and Inspector Gboyega Oyeniyi, have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force for allegedly subjecting a suspected robber’s girlfriend to dehumanising treatment at the man’s house in the Ibadan area of Oyo State. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, who confirmed the development in a statement on Thursday, said efforts were on to arrest another cop and a yet-to-be-identified civilian involved in the incident. Mba, however, said the officers were on legitimate duties. It was gathered that the police team had…

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