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FEC meeting cancellation: Fayose, others berates FG

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Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor, and some Nigerians have berated the Federal Government over the cancellation of yesterday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Fayose, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, described the reason given for the cancellation of meeting as funny, saying: “Is it not funny that the same Federal Government that declared public holidays forgot that there would be a Tuesday after the public holidays and FEC meeting will be held on Wednesday? “Methinks they should look for another lie next…

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TUC flays minister over directive on casual workers as Government begins payment of doctors arrears

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The Federal Government has begun the payment of backlog of resident doctors nationwide. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, who made the revelation yesterday at the resumed negotiations between government and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in Abuja, explained that the office of the Accountant General of the Federation had remitted the arrears to the apex bank for immediate action. Faulting the ongoing strike, the minister accused the doctors of violating Section 18 of the Trade Union Dispute Act of the Federation 2004. Ngige also…

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Woman allegedly kidnaps seven-year-old girl for 19 months

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A 20-year-old woman, Ajoke Owolabi has been arrested by the Ogun State police command for allegedly kidnapping a seven-year-old girl, Racheal Olorunshola, and keeping her in custody for 19 months. The little girl, according to a statement by the command’s spokesman, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, in Abeokuta yesterday, said the suspect kidnapped the girl while returning from school and the parents have been looking for her since then. Oyeyemi disclosed that the girl was “suddenly brought home to her parents by a Good Samaritan last month. Few weeks later after her…

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Minister declares support for Atiku, vows to resign if Buhari seeks re-election

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Senator Aisha Alhassan ‘Mama Taraba’, Minister of Women Affairs, has vowed to oppose President Muhammadu Buhari if he shows interest in the 2019 presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The minister said she would resign and pitch her tent in the camp of Atiku Abubakar, if the President showed interest to contest against Atiku. The Presidency offered no comments on Senator Alhassan’s comments, while the APC said its leadership will meet to react to the issue. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on its part, said it was a…

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Suya seller arraigned for attempted murder of 4-year-old girl

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Halilu Abdulahi, a suya seller, on Wednesday at an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, pleaded guilty to an attempt to slice the throat of a four-year-old girl. Abdulahi, 40, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate A. O. Ajibade on a two-count charge of attempted murder and unlawful assault. The accused pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against him. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Hafsat Ajibode, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Aug. 18 at 5.35 p.m. at No. 1, Denton St., Ebute Meta. She said the accused lured…

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Doctors strike: Federal hospitals ordered to recruit casual doctors

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Pending the resolution of the ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has directed chief medical directors and medical directors of federal hospitals to immediately engage the services of locum doctors to augment the services of consultants, National Youth Service Corps doctors and  medical doctors on internship. The order was contained in a circular with Ref. No. C. 3132/Vol. V/116, addressed to all CMDs/MDs of federal tertiary health institutions across the country. Adewole said the move became imperative in order to…

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55 cases of Domestic violence against men by wives reported in Lagos

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In renewed cases of domestic violence in Lagos state, a total of 55 husbands have reported to the Lagos State Government how their wives battered them in the last eight years. The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, Adeniji Kazeem at a media briefing in Ikeja, yesterday, revealed that more men were now coming forward to report cases of violence against them by their women. Kazeem, who is the chairman, Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, said there had been 55 cases of men reporting domestic violence…

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Guilder Ultimate search winner Hector assassinated

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Winner of the 2006 Gulder Ultimate Search, GUS, reality TV, Season 3, Hector Oluwaseun Jobarteh has been assassinated. Jobarteh was shot dead by unknown gunmen at his residence in New Oko-Oba, area of Lagos State on Sunday. The Lagos State Police have arrested three suspects in connection with the assassination. This was made known by the new Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal. Edgal said three persons are being interrogated over the killing of Jobarteh, a father of one, who was reportedly trailed to his house and shot…

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Rooney arrested for drunk driving in another woman’s car, pregnant wife ‘plans to walk away’

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Wayne Rooney has been arrested and charged for drunk driving after he was found driving another woman’s car intoxicated. His pregnant wife of nine years, Coleen, was on holiday abroad with their three sons. Wayne is reported to have “kissed and cuddled” single mother Laura Simpson, who has since suggested that she would have “spent the night” with Wayne had it not been for his arrest. Now Wayne is said to be scared that his marriage is over, with sources close to him claiming that Coleen believes that this latest scandal is…

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Lagos CP orders removal of anti-kidnapping OC over alleged bribe

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Mr. Edgal Imohimi, the Acting Commissioner of Police, Lagos State command, has ordered a full-scale investigation into the alleged corrupt practices preferred against the Officer in-Charge (O/C) of the Anti-Kidnapping and Cultism Unit of the command, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Adejobi Akinade. It would be recalled that a group, Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NORPIN) had in a petition to the new Commissioner of Police, on September 1, 2017, accused CSP Adejobi of unlawful detention, demand of N70,000 bribe for bail and sexual molestation in a case of…

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