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The Nigerian Army has said at least three people were killed when supporters of an imprisoned Shiite cleric clashed with security forces during a protest march in Abuja. The military said troops and police “repelled the attack” by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, who also “fired weapons”, threw stones and Molotov cocktails. “Unfortunately during the encounter, three members of the sect were killed while four soldiers sustained various degrees of injuries,” the army said in a statement on Monday night. Six members the IMN sect have been killed…

26 inmates of Agodi Prison, Ibadan, Oyo State, are set to write the 2018 National Examination Council (NECO) examination. This is contained in a statement issued by the Prison Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Anjorin Olanrewaju, on Tuesday and made available to newsmen, in Ibadan. He said the inmates were registered to take examinations in Science, Arts and Commercial subjects. “The examination will be a maiden one in the prison. “It is one of the reformatory tools deployed by the Nigerian Prison Service to ensure inmates’ reformation and reintegration into…

Richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, President, Dangote Group, has initiated a new project aimed at celebrating hardworking homemakers. The project, tagged the World Puff-puff Day, is to be celebrated on October 27 every year, according to Dangote Flour Mills. Two tonnes (40 bags of 50-kilogramme) flour were used at the maiden edition of the event, which held on Saturday, with 30,000 pieces of puff-puff produced. The Group Marketing Executive, Dangote Flour Mills, Mrs Funmilayo Bolarinwa, said the firm aimed to beat the current Guinness Book of World Records of 200kg (four big bags)…

Chief Tony Anenih, former Minister of Works and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is dead. Mr Anenih died on Sunday evening at the age of 85, at Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment. Anthony Akhakon Anenih was born in Uzenema-Arue in Uromi. In 1951 he joined the Nigeria police force in Benin City. Working at home, he obtained secondary school qualifications. He attended the police college in Ikeja, and was selected for further training in the Bramshill Police College, Basingstoke, England in…

The Senior Special Assistant to the Kaduna state Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr Samuel Aruwan, has announced that no fewer than 32 persons were arrested in connection with the renewed violence in the Kaduna metropolis and its environs on Friday. Aruwan said the number of arrested persons over the renewed disturbances was given by the police at the state’s Security Council meeting, adding that “these persons will be investigated and prosecuted.” Aruwan noted that within the areas covered by the curfew, “security agencies thwarted attempts to destroy places of…

Mr Francis Ogbonnaya, owner of a beer parlour, in Amasiri community in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has threatened to sue the Chairman of the LGA, Enyim Enyim, over an alleged half a million naira beer debt. The 61-year old, who owns Madison Bar in Osisioma Road, Ihie village in Amasiri community, alleged that the council boss allegedly incurred the debt between 2012, when Enyim was the coordinator of Amasiri Development Centre, and 2017 when he eventually became the council chairman. In a petition addressed to the…