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Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina has explained that President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to seek medical attention abroad was based on prior appointment with his doctors who have treated him over the years. Speaking in an interview Sunday, Adesina said Buhari was well informed of the difficulties Nigerians are passing through even as he said that the ensuing economic recession which he described as inevitable would soon end. Adesina also rebuffed claims of a media clampdown even as he affirmed that the president had received the report on the Attorney General’s investigations…

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Police have arrested a young woman, Chinedu Chukwu, for abducting and selling her elder sister’s four-year-old daughter. The girl, Chinecherem Irechukwu, a pupil of Unity Primary School in Inyi, a community in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu, was declared missing on December 15, 2016. The police was notified after Chinecherem did not return from school. Spokesman, Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the development, said the case was referred to Gender/Anti-Human Trafficking Section of the state Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department. In the course of…

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A local official has disclosed that about 236 people may have been killed in the botched Nigerian air strike against Boko Haram that hit a camp for civilians displaced by the unrest. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday had said the death toll from Tuesday’s strike on the town of Rann in the far northeast had risen to 90, although it claimed that could climb as high as 170. But Babagana Malarima, president of the local Kala-Balge government in Borno State where the strike took place, claimed the death toll…

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Osun State pensioners gathered close to the Freedom Park along one of the major roads in Osogbo, the state capital have erected about six canopies. The aggrieved pensioners added a new twist to their protest against the non-payment of their pensions when they erected ‘internally displaced pensioners’ camp. Initially, the canopies did not raise any suspicion but much later, the leaders of the protesting retirees hung banners with the inscription: “You are welcome to the internally displaced pensioners’’ camp. The ‘camp’, modelled after the internally displaced persons’ camps in parts…

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The Head of Corporate Communications of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), Mr. Godwin Idemudia, on Saturday said there would be a nine-hour power outage in Lagos Island, Victoria Island and Ikoyi on Monday Jan. 23. Idemudia, said this in a statement made available in Lagos. “We wish to inform our consumers that on Monday Jan.23, between 08:00-17:00 hrs, there will be an outage on the 132kv bus-bars (outdoor) at Alagbon S/T. “This is to enable our maintenance crew to connect the new and old sections of the 132kV bus-bars together.…

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Ifeka Obi, Forty-seven-year-old textile trader, was arrested by officials of NDLEA as he was about to board a flight at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Wednesday when a search of his baggage revealed a curious cargo. Tucked within a load of foodstuffs, which he told operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the scene that he was exporting for sale in Cambodia was 4.4kg of methamphetamine. According to the NDLEA, at about $325,000 per kilogramme, the narcotic cargo Obi was caught with will fetch his handlers…

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Marketers yesterday, told Nigerians to hold the CBN, the banker to the government, responsible for the scarcity of petroleum products as the apex bank has refused to make dollar available at the fixed rate of N305 to $1. Oil marketers have refused to resume the importation of petroleum products, particularly petrol, until the Federal Government can guarantee them access to dollars at the official exchange rate fixed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). But the government has said that the action of the marketers has not led to an…

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The enforcement of the Do Not Disturb (DND), code by NCC, which compels mobile network operators to stop sending unsolicited messages to their subscribers has commenced. Prof Umar Danbatta executive vice chairman of NCC at a meeting with the Academia on ITU Study Group Participation held at Digital Bridge Institute, Abuja, said the move became imperative because the NCC had given the operators ample time to comply with the regulatory directive and was now ready to enforce the N5 million fine stipulated for any breach of the directive by the…

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