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Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Nigeria Minister of Information and Culture, has debunked media reports claiming that he said the federal government does not know who will sign the 2017 budget. In a statement issued to newsmen on Wednesday by his Special Adviser, Segun Adeyemi, the Minister said he was misrepresented in the statement, maintaining that such statement was a malicious misrepresentation of what transpired at the post-Federal Executive Council Meeting press briefing earlier today. “Our attention has been drawn to a story in a section of the media quoting the Honourable Minister…

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Family of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke have threatened court action as it was confirmed that Adeleke died as a result of aspiration of gastric contents due to multiple drug overdoses. The leader of a team of pathologists who conducted an autopsy on him, Dr. Taiwo Olufemi Solaja disclosed this yesterday. The pathologist made the disclosure at the resumed proceeding of the Coroner Inquest raised by the Osun State government to probe the death. Solaja also ruled out the element of poison in the politician’s death. Giving evidence during a…

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A public bus driver was yesterday handcuffed to a patrol truck by policemen along Sopkonba Road Junction, Benin, the Edo State capital. A resident, Augustine Ogbomwan, who was filming the torture of the unidentified driver with his mobile phone camera, was also said to have been detained by the police. It was learnt that some cops attached to the Esigie Police Division had stopped the driver’s vehicle on Sunday. The policemen allegedly asked the driver to alight from the vehicle and searched him. A businessman, Franklyn Irabor, who lived close…

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The immediate demotion of Malam Nuradeen Abubakar, the Principal, Unity Junior Secondary School, Malumfashi and Malam Yakub Ibrahim, Head Teacher, Rimaye Model Primary School, Kankia, has been ordered by Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State. Alhaji Abdu Labaran, the Senior Special Assistant on Media to the governor, made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday in Katsina. Masari directed that the duo should be redeployed as classroom teachers. He also warned the Principal of the senior section of the Unity Secondary School Malumfashi, Malam Nasiru Muazu, to-sit up and…

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21 victims have given mass burial as the death toll in the attack at Epogi community of Mokwa Local Government Area, Niger State has risen to 27, while the state government has vowed that the perpetrators will be brought to book. The Director-General of Niger State Emergency Management Agency, NSEMA, Mr. Ibrahim Inga, disclosed yesterday in Minna that 21 people were killed in the attack, while three bodies were recovered from a river. Inga said three other victims died at the Federal Medical Centre, Bida, bringing the total number of deaths…

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At the inauguration of pedestrian bridges, a lay-by and a slip road at Berger bus stop, the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday said Vehicles Inspection Officers have been permanently banned from all Lagos roads. The governor also asked the Federal Road Safety Corps to restrict the operations of its men to highways and stay off state roads. The governor said the VIOs and the FRSC contributed significantly to gridlock in the state, adding that his government would employ technology to track and monitor vehicle registration and certification. “The…

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In honour of the late retired Maj.Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo, a former Military Governor of the old Western region, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has declared May 19, work free day in the state . Fayose announced the date in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday during a meeting with members and executives of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS). The governor said that nothing would be too big to honour the late Adebayo, having paid his dues and contributed immensely to the growth and development of Yorubaland. “In this…

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