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56-year-old man impregnates minor, abducts her for abortion

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Vincent Idogho, a 56-year-old driver, who allegedly impregnated a 15-year-old girl, and abducted her from her grandmother’s house for abortion, has been arrested. The suspect, a driver at a popular transport company along Okpe Road in Sapele, Delta State, allegedly started sleeping with the minor since last November. A source, who craved anonymity, said that each time the girl was returning from school, the suspect would lay an ambush, lure her and most times threaten her. According to the source, “though the girl did not tell anybody, we were beginning…

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President Buhari’s Massive Infrastructural Development Has Boosted Tourism In Nigeria- NTDC Boss, Folorunsho Coker

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Despite Historical Debts We Met, NTDC Has Recorded Landmark Achievements- Folorunsho Coker The Senate has passed the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) (Repeal renactment) Bill 2017 into law. The law, which was initiated to reposition NTDC, is awaiting President Muhammadu Buhari‘s assent. NTDC Director-General Folorunso Coker speaks with TopNews Magazines on his expectations of the law and its relevance to global tourism objectives. Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) Director-General, Mr. Folorunso Coker, has described the new NTDC bill awaiting President Buhari’s assent as the needed legal framework to grow the…

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Dismissed soldier sentenced to death for killing girlfriend

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Sunday Umaru, a 34-year-old dismissed solider has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Plateau State High Court sitting in Barkin Ladi, on Wednesday, for hacking his lover to death over a message he found on her mobile telephone. Justice S. P. Gang passed the sentence after finding Umaru guilty of killing his girlfriend, Charity Thomas, on January 23, 2016. Gang stated that Umaru “mercilessly took the life of Charity Thomas in cold blood” and had to face the full weight of the law. The judge ruled, “This sentence…

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I paid $2million ransom after I was kidnapped by E-money -Victim

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Tochukwu Okeke, an Enugu based politician, who was one of the victims of a notorious kidnapper, Collins Ezenwa, AKA ‘E-money’, who was arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), narrated how he was kidnapped by the late suspect and his gang and the sum of $2million extorted from him as ransom before he was released. Okeke told newsmen that, Ezenwa and members of his gang accosted him in Nnsuka area of Enugu State, on his way back from Abuja, blindfolded and took him into…

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Two Sisters arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs into prison in noodle carton

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Two sisters have been arrested by officers of the Kuje Medium Security Prison in the Federal Capital Territory for attempting to smuggle substances suspected to be cannabis and Tramadol into the prison premises. The prime suspect, identified as Miss Blessing Chinwuba, allegedly concealed the prohibited items in a carton of neatly packed noodles, which she wanted to take into the prison. She was arrested by vigilant officers at the prison’s gate before she could pass the items to an inmate, John Ifeanyichukwu. This was contained in a statement by the…

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WhatsApp cuts recipients of forwarded messages to tackle fake news

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Popular text messaging service, WhatsApp Messenger, has reduced messages a user can forward to five recipients, in an effort to reduce the spread of false information. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that WhatsApp Messenger, acclaimed to be the world’s most popular messaging app, is a freeware and cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook. The application allows the sending of text messages and voice calls, as well as video calls, images and other media, documents, and user location. Previously, users could forward messages to…

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NLC kicks as council of state fixes minimum wage at N27,000

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The N27, 000 fixed by the National Council of State on Tuesday as the new National Minimum Wage has been kicked against by the NLC. The figure is N3, 000 short of the N30, 000 initially recommended by the Tripartite Committee on Review of National Minimum Wage chaired by a former Head of Service of the Federation, Ms Amma Pepple. The Pepple committee had submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2018 and it spiralled disputes, as the majority of state governors insisted they could only afford N22,…

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Spanish court slams 3.57 million euros fine against Ronaldo for tax fraud

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A Spanish court has ordered Cristiano Ronaldo to pay 3.57 million euros ($4.1 million) for committing tax fraud when he was at Real Madrid. The court sentenced him to a two-year jail sentence that it immediately reduced to a fine of 365,000 euros, which adds on to another penalty of 3.2 million euros, the sentence read. A court spokesman said he did not know whether this would be added on to the 18.8 million euros that Ronaldo had agreed to pay Spain’s taxman under a deal reached in June with…

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Atiku insists on debate with Buhari

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Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party has expressed displeasure about the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari from a debate at the time Nigerians expected him to give an account of his stewardship in office. The Director, Media and Publicity, PDP PCO, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, was at the venue of the presidential debate only to discover that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Buhari, was absent at the debate. According to him, the PDP presidential candidate has insisted on…

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Jimoh Ibrahim loses mum in candle fire

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A fire that broke out in the Victoria Garden City, Lagos Island, home of Mrs Theresa Jimoh, the mother of a business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim, has claimed her life. It was gathered that the fire, which started in the early hours of Saturday, was caused by candlelight. The victim, who was reported to have slept off while praying at her residence on Road 3, House B8, was burnt to death before the intervention of firefighters from the Lagos State Fire Service. Her remains were said to have been handed over…

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