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Senator Natasha slams N100.3bn suit on Akpabio, claims defamation

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Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central senatorial district, has instituted a N100.3billion defamation suit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, FCT, Abuja. This came after the Senate began a probe of the senator for engaging in verbal exchange with the Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, over sitting arrangement at plenary last Thursday. Akpoti-Uduaghan, alleged that the Senate president tarnished her image through a defamatory post published on his social media platform, Facebook. According to the claimant, the Senate President had in the post…

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Man kills newly wedded wife with 4-month pregnancy in Edo State

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Operatives of the Edo State Police Command arrested one Kelvin Izekor for the murder of his 38-year-old wife, Success Izekor. The unfortunate incident happened at Upper Mission Extension in Benin City on Saturday, February 22, 2025. A resident claimed that the couple recently got married. Also, a viral video on social media shows police officers and residents taking the deceased, who had deep machete cuts on her head, from her apartment into a police Hilux patrol van. The spokesperson of the Edo State Police Command, Moses Yamu, confirmed the incident…

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Trump to sell US residency permits for $5m

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President Donald Trump of the United States of America has unveiled plans to sell new “gold card” residency permits for a price of $5 million each — and said Russian oligarchs may be eligible. Trump said sales of the new visa, a high-price version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could be used to reduce the US national deficit. “We’re going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re going to be putting a price on…

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Onanuga: El-Rufai should stop crying like a child over appointment

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Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, is angry because he was blocked from getting a ministerial appointment in the current administration. El-Rufai has been critical of Tinubu’s government in recent times. During an interview on Arise TV, el-Rufai said it was Tinubu, not the National Assembly, that blocked his nomination as a minister after initially asking him to be part of the government. “The National Assembly had nothing to do with it, the president didn’t…

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Stop lending to unaccountable leaders -NLC tells IMF, World Bank

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President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, weekend in Washington DC, United States, told the International Monetary Fund, IMF and World Bank, WB, to stop lending money to governments not accountable to their citizens. According to Joe, “such loans only deepen the crisis of governance and push nations further into the abyss of debt and underdevelopment.” Ajaero, who stated this, also told the global financial institutions how their economic prescriptions over the years had continued to worsen poverty and undermine Nigeria’s development. Ajaero, who spoke at the 2025…

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Two men sentenced to public flogging in Indonesia for gay sex

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Two men found guilty of sexual relations by a court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday, have been sentenced to be publicly flogged, an official said. While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation — it is illegal in Aceh province, which imposes Sharia, the Islamic law code. In November, locals raided a rented room in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh and found the two men — both students at a local university — together. They were taken to Sharia…

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Thai lady arrested at Lagos Airport with illicit drugs

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A 24-year-old Thai woman, Ms. Pattaphi Wimonnat, attempting to smuggle 43 parcels of Canadian Loud—a synthetic strain of cannabis—into Nigeria, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The illicit consignment, weighing 46.60 kilograms, was intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, confirmed the arrest, stating that officers discovered the drugs hidden in her luggage. “The suspect, who confessed to being a hired drug trafficker, was apprehended on Thursday, February 20, 2025, during the inward clearance of passengers on a…

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Police shun Osun LG polls as PDP wins all seats

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The local government council elections conducted across Osun state yesterday witnessed low turnout of voters, as well as absence of security operatives in polling units. Although some wards and polling units witnessed a large turnout of voters, majority of the units where voting took place recorded low turnout compared to the last governorship election in the state. Voting did not take place in some polling units in Osogbo, Olorunda local government areas and in most polling units of Ilesa-West, Ilesa-East, Irewole, where Remi Abass was killed during the council takeover…

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Ex-RCCG campus pastor, Adekoya weds gay partner in US

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A former campus pastor and leader of the Redeemed Christian Fellowship (RCF) at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Jimmy Adekoya has set the internet on ‘fire’ following the news of his same-sex wedding in the United States. Adekoya, who graduated from the OOU, served as a preacher, music director, and President of RCF before graduating in 2019. However, he sparked controversy on social media when he(Adekoya) posted photos of himself holding a certificate in Master’s degree in Medical Microbiology from the University of Hertford, alongside his gay partner, Seamus O’Donovan (identified as the…

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Court jails 11 internet fraudsters in Benin City

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Justice W.I. Aziegbemhin of Edo State High Court, sitting in Benin City convicted and sentenced 11 internet fraudsters to jail. Those convicted were: Izomor Samuel Efe,  Nosakhare Bright, Emovon Destiny, Vincent Arogbo, Osarentin Morgan Aduwa, Osagiede Destiny Oghosa, Nosakhare Ernest Theophilus, Junior Emmanuel Efe, Osimen Princewill, Obamedo Clinton and David Iyobor. They were prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Directorate of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on separate one-count charges bordering on obtaining by false pretence, advance fee fraud, retention of proceeds of crime and possession of fraudulent documents. The charge against Efe reads: “That you Justice Samuel Efe…

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