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Panic and protest, greeted the arrival and settlement of over 200 herdsmen and their cows at Agu Obodo, Obeagwu Ozalla in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State yesterday. The protesting community members said they were overwhelmed by over five trucks that off-loaded the herdsmen, their families and cows in the community and is asking the herdsmen to leave their land within three days as their people can no longer go to their farms. President-General of Ozalla Development Union, ODU, Chief Afam Ani, who led the protesting women, youths…

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In a statement issued on Monday, former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase denied the allegation that some Police vehicles were missing (19) during his tenure. Arase rubbished the claims of the recoveries just as he raised an alarm that some forces were bent on tarnishing his image The ex-IGP’s reaction is coming on the heels of a similar one on July 18 and following another media report that 19 out of 24 vehicles he allegedly took away upon retirement had been recovered from him. In a statement issued on…

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In its public enlightenment series number three, signed by its spokespersons Mr Emma Nmezu, a lawyer, and Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said that the people who actually committed treason against Nigeria and should be languishing in prison are now the people pretending to love the country. IPOB said that President Muhammadu Buhari has no moral justification to talk about, or accuse anybody in the country of committing treason having committed it several times and went scot free. Muhammadu Buhari, who is today the President…

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A bill has been passed by the Ogun State House Assembly on Tuesday to curb the illegal act of land grabbers popularly called ‘omo oniles’. It is no longer business as usual for land grabbers in Ogun State whose activities have caused many deaths and breakdown of law and order, with the proposed 25 years jail term for anyone found guilty of involvement in the act. The activities of the land grabbers are a well-known issue to land owners preparing to put up structures on their landed property in Ogun…

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Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has disclosed that his government is to acquire 5.5-megawatt biomass plant from Germany which would utilize rice husk and other available waste materials to generate electricity. Governor David Umahi, who made this known after inspecting two of the three state-owned rice modern mills, said the plant would arrive the country in the next four months. He disclosed that one megawatt of rice husk plant and another 500 kilowatt would arrive the state soon. The inspection visit took the governor to Iboko in Izzi Local…

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A twelve-year-old girl who was kidnapped in Ketu area of Lagos State on Friday has been rescued by policemen attached to Mowe Division in Ogun State. A suspected member of the kidnap syndicate was also arrested during the rescue operation at the early hours of yesterday, in an hotel at Orimeranmu area of Mowe. The teenager , Eniola Oyekanmi, was abducted at about 4pm, while running an errand for her parents. Thereafter, the kidnappers contacted her parents, demanding N2 million ransom for her release. Her distraught father was said to have…

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Jude Ndukwe, an aide to former aviation minister, Femi Femi-Kayode, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of planning to kill his principal who was re-arrested on Friday in Abuja. Mr. Ndukwe says the EFCC intends to poison the outspoken opposition politician. He said in a statement that the arrest of Mr. Fani-Kayode, after he had been granted bail, was in furtherance of the purpose of silencing the opposition under the guise of fighting corruption. “We are therefore aghast but not surprised that this latest action of the…

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Following a reported “chemical incident” that left 26 travellers feeling unwell, hundreds of passengers and staff were evacuated from London City airport on Friday. “We are treating 26 patients at the scene for difficulty breathing,” the London Ambulance Service said, adding that two of them were taken to hospital. A “hazardous area response team” was also sent to the airport in east London, which caters mainly for business travellers and short-haul flights. The London Fire Brigade in a statement said firefighters and police officers had carried out two full sweeps…

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According to a private member bill sponsored by the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa, Lagos State Government may soon join the growing number of states including Edo, Ogun and Anambra that have imposed death sentence on “any person, who kidnaps, abducts, detains or captures or takes another person by any means or tricks with intent to demand ransom or do anything against his/her, will commit an offence, and liable to a conviction of death sentence. The bill, which is titled: ‘A bill for a law…

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Suspended Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin, on Friday, withdrew the legal action he instituted against Speaker of the House, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, over alleged budget padding. Jubrin had dragged Dogara and 13 other lawmakers before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, alleging that they surreptitiously padded the 2016 budget with about N40billion. He told the court that his colleagues were plotting to implicate and make him “a scapegoat” after he revealed how N40bn out of N100bn allocated to the entire National…

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