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The wife of the former State Correspondent of Daily Independent Newspapers and now Benue Regional Manager of First City Monument Bank, FCMB, Mrs. Yuadoo, Tor-Agbidye was abducted by unknown gunmen in the early hours of Friday. It was gathered that the victim, a staff of the state owned Radio Benue was abducted from the family’s private residence along the new Abu King Shuluwa road, new GRA Makurdi. According to a family source, the home of the Tor-Agbidyes was invaded at about 5am by a four man well armed gang who…

A new visa application process has been adopted by the UK embassy, the British High Commission said yesterday, in a statement. The spokesperson of the commission, Joe Abuku, described the new process as a slight change in which “Visa staff now only need electronic versions of support documents.” The new process, which takes effect from December 5 for customers applying for a UK visa in Lagos, Victoria Island and Ikeja, would bring applicants benefits from digital improvements to the UK visa application process. “TLSContact (responsible for UK Visa Application Centres…

Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor has said his government has traced some violent, aggrieved Fulani to their countries and paid them to stop the killings of Southern Kaduna natives and the destruction of their communities saying that the renewed violence is carried out by bandits. El-Rufai made this known while fielding questions from some select Journalists in his office in Kaduna. He said: “For southern Kaduna, we didn’t understand what was going on and we decided to set up a committee under Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (rtd) to find…

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has enjoined Guinness Nigeria Plc to create 200,000 jobs in the next four years from the newly commissioned 1.2 million spirit production line of the company. The Governor, Godwin Obaseki made the appeal during the commissioning of the manufacturing line for the local production of the company’s spirit brands in Nigeria. The Governor while speaking at the commissioning of the new production line located within the Guinness Breweries, Ikpoba hill, Benin, said that the state government would like to partner with Guinness Nigeria to…

Benue State commissioner of police, Mr Haliru Gwandu who described the incident as wicked said that a 55-year-old man identified as Aniete, from Akwa Ibom state took Cephas Benin to work at a plantation but unknown to late Aniete, Cephas had his eyes on Aniete’s motorcycle. The police boss explained that after killing his victim, Cephas took the motorcycle to where it could be sold and in the process, he was nabbed. According to him, “this is a very pathetic situation because this man he killed took him out for…

Unconditional release of detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as the Shi’ite sect,  Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Malami Zeenat, has been ordered by a High Court sitting in Abuja within 45 days. Justice Gabriel Kolawole made the order while delivering judgment on a fundamental right enforcement suit El-Zakzaky filed against the Federal Government. The court held that the continued detention of the applicant without trial amounted to a gross violation of his constitutionally guaranteed rights. It went ahead and awarded N50m damages against…

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Finance Minister under the past President Goodluck Jonathan was on Thursday, honored with the Global Fairness Award in Washington DC, United States. The award was presented to her by the Global Fairness Initiative in recognition of her contribution to sustainable development, through serving others, and her consistent focus on implementing development programs that benefit the poor and less privileged. Speaking at the event in Washington DC, the former minister expressed gratitude for the recognition and pledged to continue to fight for fairness for the less privileged.…