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Kamal Bala Yunusa, 23, has been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command in connection with alleged kidnap of his three-year-old nephew. The victim’s mother and Kamal are reportedly of the same parents. According to the command, the child was rescued from a hotel in Katsina, where he had been drugged with “a cough mixture,” before the police revived him in a hospital at about 3 am on Friday. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Salisu Agaisa, told journalists during a parade of Kamal and another suspect, Muhammed…

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ANTs, Association of Nigerian Tenants, has planned on constructing affordable housing units across the country to address housing deficit. The president of the association, Mr Edward Olutoke, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday that the initiative was to assist the low income earners. Olutoke said the association had a duty of empowering Nigerians economically using modern ways of generating credible and stress-free income which they could move into their own houses at ease. “We simply work with tenant-members and investors to create as many affordable housing projects…

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The Nigerian army has finally captured the sambisa forest which is the hideout of the dreaded Boko haram terrorist group. President Muhammadu Buhari in a goodwill message saluted the gallant troops of the Nigerian Army for their historic final crushing of Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa Forest. In a goodwill message to troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole on the successful capture of the Boko Haram enclave in Sambisa Forest, Buhari said that he was proud of the troops. He said: “I am delighted at, and most proud of the…

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Bishop Peter Imasuen, Chairman of the Edo State Pilgrims Board, has described as illegal and wicked, the deportation of one of the participants from Israel on the orders of some members of the Edo State Pilgrims Board Commission. They therefore demanded for the immediate removal of one Constance, the NCPC lady who led the delegation and one of the Pastors attached to the Commission, who was alleged to have plotted the deportation of the lady after she allegedly rejected his love overtures. The incident caused pandemonium at the Ben Gurion…

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Ikenga Ugochinyere, Special Adviser to the Senate President on Youth Matters, has been arrested by Operatives of Department of State Service (DSS). The DSS operatives stormed the Abuja office of Ugochinyere to prevent him from leading a protest against the December 10 legislative rerun election in Rivers State. The DSS operatives were said to have broken into Ugochinyere’s office and carted away documents. The security operatives arrived the office in four unmarked Hilux trucks at around 2am yesterday. It was said that Ugochinyere, who is also the disputed National President…

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Ex-First Lady, Patience Jonathan’s multiple accounts has been frozen by order of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over suspected proceeds from crime. One of the account, domiciled with Skye Bank plc, has a balance of $5,316.66. The presiding judge, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun, while granting the order freezing the accounts ordered the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, file an undertaking in relation to damages payable by it if it turns out that the order should not have been made. This is sequel to a further…

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Francis Idoko, an official of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (DISCO), was on  Friday beaten by residents of a building on Fish Pond Street, Muwo Ojo, Lagos, for disconnecting their line. The residents, who insisted that the official should reconnect them, after raining  blows on him, also let loose a dog, which attacked Idoko. The DISCO official alleged that the building’s prepaid metre was illegally connected. “The house has a prepaid metre but the residents did not go through the right channel,’’ Idoko said. “We are on routine assignment and in…

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Professor Isaac Adewole, Minister of Health yesterday, allayed fears over purported circulation of plastic rice in Nigerian markets, saying preliminary laboratory tests revealed there was no evidence to back up the claims. Adewole, who wrote on his twitter handle @Fmohnigeria noted: ”I have just been briefed by the DG @nafdacagency on plastic rice reports. Preliminary test results reveal there is no evidence backing claims.” It would be recalled that Customs officials seized a batch of 102 bags of rice thought to have been “plastic” rice and samples were sent out…

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