Author: Alex Enemanna
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Bode George mocks Tinubu, says presidential ambition huge joke
Peoples Democratic Party stalwart, Chief Bode George, has described the presidential ambition of All Progressives Congress leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a huge joke. George said this during a chat with newsmen while reacting to Tinubu’s decision to inform the President, Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to contest. “This so-called ambition must be a huge…
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Search ends in Delta building collapse, three confirmed dead, eighteen rescued
Three persons have been confirmed dead after a church building collapsed at Okpanam community in Delta State. A woman and two girls lost their lives to the incident which occurred on Tuesday in Oshimili North Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in Delta, Bright Edafe, confirmed the number of…
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2023: Sen. Kalu Vows To Match Tinubu Grit To Grit
Former Abia State governor and Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has said he will be ready to contest the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential ticket with former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu if the party zones it to the South. Speaking in an interview, yesterday, Kalu said that while…
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Former Interim President Ernest Shonekan Dead
The head of defunct Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, is dead. He headed the government set up to succeed General Ibrahim Babangida’s regime. He died in Lagos at the age of 85 on Tuesday, January 11. Shonekan headed the then government between August 26 and November 17, 1993, when he was removed from office…
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Edo Panel of Inquiry summons retired Police CSP over death of UNIBEN student in 2013
A Chief Superintendent of Police, Mrs. Carol Afegbai (rtd), has been summoned by the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry to appear before it on 26, November 2020 over the circumstances surrounding the alleged shooting of one Mr. Ibrahim Momodu by the police on May 27, 2013 in Benin. The family of the deceased is…
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Court sentences six foreigners, Nigerian to seven years imprisonment over oil theft
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced six foreigners and a Nigerian to seven years imprisonment for oil theft. Justice J. K, Omotosho gave the verdict on Monday after three years of prosecution by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The foreigners were identified…
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Troops arrest 11 illegal miners, neutralise scores of bandits
The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Accord have arrested 11 illegal miners and eliminated scores of bandits on Nov. 21 in parts of Zamfara and Katsina States. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Monday, said the troops continued to record successes in the fight against banditry and other…
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Court orders Sen. Ndume’s remand over failure to produce Maina
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the remand of Senator Ali Ndume over his inability to produce former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who has jumped bail in respect of his ongoing N2bn money laundering trial. PUNCH reports that Justice Okon Abang ordered that the Borno South…
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Alleged corruption: France ex-president Sarkozy goes on trial
Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on Monday for attempted bribery of a judge, a potentially humiliating postscript to a career tainted by legal woes. Though he is not the first modern French head of state in the dock — his predecessor and political mentor Jacques Chirac was convicted of embezzlement — Sarkozy…
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Uzodinma to reward ‘deserving’ Imo journalists
Imo State governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma says his administration will, in the coming year, float awards for serving and deserving media practitioners in the state. The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Mbadiwe Emelumba, disclosed this weekend while speaking at the first-anniversary celebration of Ozisa 96.1 FM, in Owerri, Vanguard reports. “Senator Hope Uzodimma…