Nine Nigerian pilgrims die in Saudi -NAHCON

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The number of Nigerian pilgrims who have died while performing the 2019 Hajj in Saudi Arabia has risen to nine. This was made known by Dr Ibrahim Kana, the Chairman, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria. Kana disclosed this in Muna on Monday while revealing the activities of the medical team of NAHCON for the pilgrims. Kana said, “The deceased, a Lagos State pilgrim, collapsed at Jamrat and was brought to hospital in Muna but died, she was hypertensive.” Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Muna, Kana said the leader of the…

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Residents flee Taraba towns over murder of policemen

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Residents of the Ibi Local Government have remained gripped by fear for their safety after the bodies of the three policemen allegedly killed by soldiers of the 93 Battalion in Taraba State have been evacuated to Abuja. The man at the centre of the controversy, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume, who is believed to be a notorious kidnapper, hails from the area. Consequently, many of the residents have continued to flee their homes following the presence of members of the police investigative team from Abuja and the massive arrest of suspected…

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Banker commits suicide, says ‘You married the wrong man’ on suicide note to wife

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After drinking an insecticide and leaving his wife a note that says “you married the wrong man”, a banker with one of the first generation banks has committed suicide in his apartment in Victoria Island, Lagos. A commercial bus driver was also reported to have committed suicide in the state, after taking same substance. Both incidents occurred over the weekend. While the deceased banker, identified simply as Onyechere, was said to have left a suicide note behind for his wife, the commercial bus driver did not. The lifeless body of Onyechere,…

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100-level NDU student shot dead by NSCDC officer

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A 100-level student of Bayelsa state-owned Niger Delta University, Ammassoma in Bayelsa State, was allegedly shot dead by an operative of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at the weekend. It was gathered that the NSCDC operative at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday was battling to free his rifle when the gun went off and hit the student identified as Obinna, in Efeke-ama area of the community. The deceased, a year one student of Petrochemical Engineering, was rushed to Tantua hospital, while the killer operative was taken into…

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81 migrants rescued by charity ship from Libya

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SOS Mediterranean and MSF, French charities, have rescued another 81 migrants off the coast of Libya on Sunday, who joined 130 others aboard the ship the Ocean Viking. The young men, mostly Sudanese, who had left Libya late Saturday in a blue rubber dinghy, clapped and cheered as the ship came into view. Sunday’s rescue was the third in as many days. The ship, jointly operated by SOS Mediterranean and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has been patrolling international waters some 50 nautical miles off the coast of Tripoli. “We’re the…

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Drivers, passersby grab Dollars flying out of a bullion van in Georgia

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Some drivers in Georgia stopped their cars and rushed to grab dollars flying out of a bullion van on Tuesday. The drivers were caught on camera grabbing cash that was flying through the air on the highway.   Dunwoody police responded to Interstate 285 around 8 p.m. Tuesday after about $175,000 (about N62 million) was reported to be “flying all over the road,” said Sgt. Robert Parsons, public information officer. The 911 callers reported that more than 15 vehicles had stopped on the interstate in Dunwoody, some 17 miles from Atlanta, and…

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Protesting Students shutdown Shoprite in Ogun over Xenophobia

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South Africa’s grocery chain, Shoprite at Ota in Ogun State was on Saturday shutdown by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), over Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa. An eye witness reports that the students picketed the shopping mall to protest what they described as unrestrained xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa. Scores of young Nigerians residing in South Africa have been brought home in body bags in recent years, having been killed in apparent xenophobic attacks in the former apartheid nation. The Shoprite mall was shut…

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Suspected rapist of 10-year-old girl says I didn’t meet her a virgin

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Terna Taga, an eighteen-year-old boy, who allegedly impregnated a 10-year-old internally displaced person, Masenengen Targba, has said he did not meet the girl a virgin. On Sunday, Targba was said to have been abandoned at a hospital but later rushed to Foundation Memorial Hospital, Makurdi, where she gave birth to a baby girl. Taga is a farmer who dropped out of school in Senior Secondary School 1. Taga, who was paraded by the Benue State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Garuba, said that though he slept with the little girl twice,…

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Maurice Iwu granted N1billion bail

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Prof. Maurice Iwu, ex-chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), who is being prosecuted for fraud, has been granted bail by Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High court yesterday, to the tune of N1 billion with two sureties in like sum. While delivering his ruling on the bail application, Justice Obiozor said: “Bail is hereby granted to the defendant to the tune of N1billion with two sureties in like sum. “The first surety shall be resident in Lagos State and shall transmit his land use as evidence of…

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Man arraigned for attempting suicide after arrest for alleged N116m fraud

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Lokesh Parwani, an Indian national, who allegedly attempted suicide after he was arrested for an alleged N116 million fraud yesterday appeared at an Igbosere Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State. The Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (Force CIID), Annex, Alagbon-Ikoyi, arraigned Parwani, the Personnel Manager of an Indian-owned firm in Lagos, on a three-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and attempted suicide. Police counsel, Morufu Animashaun, alleged that Parwani and his accomplices, who are on the run, conspired and defrauded his employer of the said sum on July 19, 2019, at…

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