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41 persons deported from the UK arrived at the Murtala Mohammed airport on Wednesday with tension showing clearly on their faces. The deportees were very aggressive and refused to interact with newsmen. They screamed intermittently that  they were deported unjustly. Some of them who refused to be identified said; “We were not even given any chance to pick any of our possession. ‘’This is inhuman and our government will surely not do anything about it. We know them.” The 41 Nigerians were deported from the United Kingdom allegedly for various…

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Rochas Okorocha, the Imo State Governor has been taken to the cleaners by his Anambra State counterpart, Chief Willie Obiano. He described the Imo State Governor as a shameless son who is spitting on his father’s grave. Obiano who spoke through his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Strategic Communication and Legislative Matters, Prince Oliver Okpala, called Okorocha “a Motor park governor.” He said the Imo governor had moral problem in fighting the All Progressives Grand Alliances that made him governor after several failed attempts in the past to be one.…

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Due to the incessant road accidents caused by commercial motorcycles, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has recommended a nationwide ban on commercial motorcycles popularly known as `Okada’. The recommendation forms part of the October Road Traffic Crash (RTC) Report 2016, submitted by the Corps Marshal, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). The report quotes Oyeyemi as saying that commercial motorcyclist remained a major cause of fatal road traffic accidents across the country, hence the need for state governments to consider banning them…

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2,968 women have been recruited as food vendors for the Federal Government Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Ogun State. Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun disclosed this on Monday in Abeokuta at the formal launching of the programme designed to provide one free, hot and nutritious meal per day for pupils in classes one to three in the nation’s primary schools. The programme is one of the five social intervention programmes of the federal government to assist and empower vulnerable Nigerians. The governor was represented at the ceremony by his…

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Sylvanus Ukpan, a 35-year-old disabled man, has been arrested by the police in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State for allegedly supplying charms and locally-made bullet proof vests to criminals in the state and neighbouring Cross River State. Parading the suspects, yesterday, at the Command Headquarters in Makurdi, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bashir Makama, said the suspect was nabbed by a special anti-crime squad, code-named Operation Zenda. Represented by the Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent Mose Yamu, the Commissioner explained that the suspect, who was in company of…

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A truck carrying a container loaded with 661 pieces of pump action rifles has been siezed by the Nigeria Customs in Lagos. The truck with registration number BDG 265 XG conveying the 1x40ft container with Number: PONU/825914/3 was intercepted along Mile 2 on the Apapa-Oshodi expressway in Lagos. Briefing newsmen in Lagos, yesterday, the Comptroller-General, NCS, Col. Hameed Ali (retd) disclosed that the rifles were concealed in steel doors and other goods in the container. Ali said that the Roving Team of the NCS Federal Operations Unit, FOU, while on…

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Mr Felix Ofulue, the Head, Corporate Communications Unit of Ikeja Electric (IE) on Monday decried the increasing number of violent attacks on its staff while performing their lawful duties. He said that the company was shocked at the level of violence, citing a recent incident at Akowonjo, Lagos, where an aggrieved woman allegedly stabbed a staff of IE. “It is quite disheartening that a customer will resort to such levels of violence under any circumstance, to express her grievance without even considering the enormity of the action, which could have…

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