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Masqueraders reportedly attacked Muslim worshippers at their Mosque in Ikun-Ekiti, Ekiti state on Tuesday. The Imam, Alhaji Abdul-Rasak Abubakar-Bello, who was rushed to the Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti after the incident, received stitches on his head. He revealed that the Muslims were held hostage in the mosque for four hours by the masquerades, who threatened to kill them. He said: “There was no way we could escape because they were waiting for us outside after initially attacking us inside the mosque with iron rods and woods. When we succeeded in locking…

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A group under the aegis of South East Peoples Assembly, SEPA, has requested the Federal High Court in Abuja to revoke Nnamdi Kanu’s bail barely 24 hours after the sit-at-home campaign that crippled business activities in the South East. The group, on Wednesday, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to revoke the bail it granted to leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. The group in a letter dated May 31 and signed by its President, Prince Chukwuemeka Okorie, urged the Chief Judge of the…

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Most markets, banks and schools in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states, including those in the rural areas, were closed and the roads were totally deserted in the early hours of the morning as a result of the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to mark the 50th  anniversary of the declaration of the defunct Republic of Biafra and honour heroes and heroines of the struggle, yesterday. Outside the S-East, the directive was partly complied with in Port Harcourt, Asaba and Bayelsa but ignored in Uyo.…

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The Christian Association of Nigeria Lagos State chapter has endorsed the sacking of the Presiding Chaplain of the Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa, Ikeja, Venerable Femi Taiwo. The Chairman of CAN in the state, Apostle Alexander Bamgbola, said the sacking of Taiwo was done by the Governing Council of the chapel which hired him, adding that the council had the power to fire him. However, questions on the circumstances surrounding the sacking, including the order for Taiwo, his wife and kids to vacate their official quarters within 24 hours,…

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In a brief statement issued by the First Lady’s office, Aisha Buhari has left for London on Tuesday to join President Muhammadu Buhari, who has been in the UK receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. Aisha Buhari’s office released a brief statement saying she was going to Britain to “spend some time” with her 74-year-old husband. “Her Excellency will spend some time with her husband President Muhammadu Buhari who is presently on medical vacation,” said a statement, which included photographs of her boarding a plane, dressed in an all-white outfit.…

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Another three-storey building at ‪No. 9, Daddy Alaja Street, Oke Arin‬, Idumota on Lagos Island, collapsed yesterday morning with two people confirmed dead and 14 others rescued.‬ This is the fourth building to have collapsed in Lagos in less than a month. It was gathered that the collapsed building was being renovated with people inside when it caved in. The bodies of the deceased have since been deposited at the Lagos Island Hospital mortuary while the 14 persons that were rescued were being treated at the emergency unit of the hospital.…

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Two teachers of a Primary School in Dutsen Tanshi area of Bauchi have been arrested by the Police for raping a six-year-old pupil of the school. The Commissioner of Police, Bauchi state Command, Garba Umar disclosed this while giving the scorecard of the command in stemming the tide of kidnapping, rape and armed robbery at a Press Conference in his office in Bauchi. He said the suspects, Sani Abubakar, 39, and Usman Hassan, 33, both of Dutsen Tanshi, were arrested on March 8th, 2017 at about 9:00 am for having…

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