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Fresh batch of deportees from Libya arrived the cargo section of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos yesterday with gory tales. The deportees arrived the cargo section of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 10.00pm aboard an Airbus A333-200 and were received at the Hajj Terminal by the National Emergency Management Agency. They narrated how they were brutalised like animals in Libya. Mr Akhere Ken, one of the deportees from Edo State, said he has been in detention in Libya in the past one year after he was…

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In order to enhance community policing, Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has said that policemen would soon be deployed to their communities of origin. The IGP told a security stakeholders’ meeting in Lokoja that the bulk of the 150,000 policemen to be recruited over the next five years would serve in their respective communities. Idris, who was represented by Shaibu Gambo, Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Finance and Administration, said that the move was to take the police closer to the people. He said that the…

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Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom, Oba Fredrick Akinruntan, has described himself as the leader of all Yoruba Obas. Olugbo had while speaking at an event in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Sunday, said, “I am the leader of all obas in Yorubaland. I speak with thunder in my mouth and I make bold to say so. No one is above me in Yorubaland inasmuch as it has been accepted that we are from Ife. I am the one that Oduduwa met at Ife. We are the husband of Moremi Ajasoro.…

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Khadija Ibrahim, a 23- year -old spinster, on Monday sued her father, Bassa Ibrahim, before an Upper Area Court, Karu, Abuja, for not allowing her to marry a man of her choice. It was reported that Khadija told the court that she had a suitor, who was willing to marry her, but her father refused to give his consent. She said, “The man I want to marry has made several attempts to meet my father to discuss the wedding plan, but he always avoided him. “The only reason he gave…

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Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, was on Monday re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over charges bordering on laundering N4.6 billion. Fani-Kayode was re-arraigned alongside former Minister of State for Finance, Sen. Nenadi Usman and Yusuf Danjuma, former National Chairman, Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON). Also charged is a company, Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Ltd. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) re-arraigned the accused on 17-counts charge of money laundering. Their re-arraignment was sequel to the transfer of the case file to a new trial…

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Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has appealed to workers in Ondo State to forfeit their outstanding salary arrears owed by the immediate past administration, as sacrifice for the development of the state. “If workers meet and say they waived two months, we will be glad, but if they insist on having the full arrears, we will look for ways of paying. The government would continue to try and make sure we don’t owe them salaries,” he said. Akeredolu stated this at the weekend while receiving the committee report to…

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