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Gov. Wike’s Police escorts dismissed over alleged misconduct

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Six officers attached to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, were yesterday dismissed by the Nigeria Police Force for breaching its directive not to follow their principals during the December 2016 re-run elections in the state. The six officers, who were alleged to have blocked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from performing its duties, were said to have displayed acts of indiscipline. However, the affected officers denied the allegation saying they were being sacrificed as scapegoats. Shortly after the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Donald Awunah disclosed reasons for…

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African leaders meets in Ghana to decide action towards Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to step down

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African leaders are to meet in Ghana to take a decision on the political conundrum in The Gambia. Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Abuja. Shehu said the meeting of the African leaders would hold in Accra, Ghana after the inauguration of the country’s President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo.He said the meeting was critical to the resolution of the impasse in that country. He said: “President Buhari and other African leaders will on Saturday (today) be attending the inauguration…

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LAUTECH, UCH Doctors raise alarm over pay irregularities

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Oyo State Medical doctors under the employ of two Teaching Hospitals, University College Hospital, (UCH) Ibadan and LAUTECH Teaching Hospital (LTH) Ogbomoso have raised alarm over irregularities in their remuneration, saying that, resident doctors in LTH, Ogbomoso only received three and half month salaries in 2016 while UCH Ibadan resident doctors are yet to get November and December 2016 salary. At a joint press conference in Oyo as part of the National Association of Resident Doctors’ nation-wide sensitisation on its impending strike, the doctors described the situation as unfair and…

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Mikel leaves Chelsea, joins China gold rush

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The Asian Football Confederation has confirmed that John Mikel Obi, Nigeria midfielder has become the latest big name player to join the Chinese Super League gold rush after leaving Chelsea for Tianjin Teda. Mikel had a medical in the port city some 130 kilometres from Beijing on Thursday and the Asian Football Confederation confirmed the deal on Friday. The 29-year-old, who spent more than a decade at Stamford Bridge, was given a free transfer by the London club and will earn 140,000 pounds (173,432 dollars) a week in China, according…

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Ohakim blasts Okorocha -You have taken Imo backward

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Ikedi Ohakim, former Governor of Imo state, has said that the present administration under Rochas Okorocha, has taken Imo State backward in terms of  governance. Ohakim stated this, when he stopped to see for himself a water scheme at Achingali in Obowo Local Government Area of the state, which was built by his administration. It did not give Ohakim joy that the project had been abandoned. According to the former governor, ”you can see that the water scheme has been abandoned and vandalised.” He further stated that ”My administration built…

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Stakeholders raise alarm over N304bn Health budget for 2017

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Stakeholders in the health sector have raised an alarm over inadequate budgetary provision of N304 billion for the Federal Ministry of Health in the 2017 national budget. The stakeholders on the platform of Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health, PACFAH, disclosed that the proposed health budget was cumulatively lower than that of 2016 due to  foreign exchange challenges in the value of  naira to the dollar. In a statement on the State of Nigeria Health Budget – 2017 issued by the PACFAH, the stakeholders, noted that the proposed…

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Man sentenced to life imprisonment for killing and keeping wife’s body in fridge

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Indian police has revealed that an Indian man, Girish Pote, who murdered his French wife before chopping up her body and hiding it in a fridge three years ago has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Girish Pote, 38, was found guilty on Wednesday of killing 33-year-old Madhuwanti Pathak on December 3, 2013 because she wanted to leave India to return to France, where she was born and raised. Pote murdered her in the flat they shared in Bhayandar, a northern suburb of India’s commercial capital Mumbai, after he purchased knives…

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NUPENG shuts down activities at Total depots over sacked workers

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Total Nigeria Limited depots nationwide was today shut down by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers. (NUPENG) ordered stoppage of loading activities at all Total depots over termination of workers appointment. This is according to a statement signed by Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the union and made available to newsmen in Lagos. According to Korodo, the management of Total has been resisting the unionisation of workers under its contract programme in Lagos, Kaduna and Koko in Delta blending plants. The chairman said that the…

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Janet Jackson delivers son at 50

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Pop superstar and younger sister to late Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, has given birth to her first child at age 50 on Tuesday, her spokesperson said Tuesday. “Janet had a stress-free healthy delivery and is resting comfortably,” read the star’s official statement, which did not provide further details. The younger sister of late king of pop Michael Jackson in April stunned fans by halting a global tour and saying that she and her husband were “planning our family.” Natural pregnancies are highly unusual, but not impossible, for women past their…

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Lawyer wife allegedly stabs husband to death

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Haemorrhagic shock from stab wound was the cause of Lowo Oyediran’s death, this was affirmed by a consultant pathologist with the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Dr. Oluwanisola Abduldeen to the High Court sitting in Ibadan. Mr. Oluwanisola made this assertion while testifying before the court in a murder case against Yewande Oyediran, a lawyer accused of stabbing her husband, Lowo, to death. Lowo was allegedly stabbed to death by the defendant at their Akobo area residence in Ibadan on February 2, 2016. The accused was subsequently arrested and charged…

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