Author: Alex Enemanna
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After arresting opposition leaders, Tanzania’s President declares democracy ‘has limits’
Tanzanian President John Magufuli said Friday that freedom and democracy have limits, after a disputed election which saw scores of opposition members arrested and his main rival leave the country. Magufuli was declared the victor of October 28 election with 84 percent of the vote, but the opposition and diplomats have dismissed the process as…
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Kogi to allocate 20% of annual budget for education
Kogi Government has proposed a 20 per cent allocation to the education sector out of the state’s 2021 annual budget. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Hon. Wemi Jones, disclosed this when a team from the Federal Education Qualify Assurance Service paid a courtesy visit on Friday in Lokoja. According to Jones, Gov.…
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Police kill two robbers in gun duel in Anambra
Two suspected armed robbers were on Friday shot dead in a gun battle with the Police in Inland town Onitsha, Anambra state. The suspects were said to be operating on a motorcycle along St. Stephens by Ibekwe Street when they met their waterloo. Confirming the incident, Police spokesperson, Haruna Mohammed, said the corpses had been…
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FG inaugurates robotics, artificial intelligence centre
The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who inaugurated the centre in Abuja, said the inauguration was in line with the digital skills acquisition drive of government as captured in the National Economic Development Policy and Strategy. He said the…
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Ebonyi Commissioner resigns over Umahi’s defection saga
Ebonyi State Commissioner for Inter-Governmental Affairs, Hon Lazarus Ogbee, Friday resigned his appointment under the present administration in the State. Ogbee’s resignation was contained in a letter dated November 12, 2020, titled, “Resignation of Appointment As Honourable Commissioner,” a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent, on Thursday night. The Commissioner’s resignation may not…
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FCT Minister of State gives palliatives to Kogi indigenes
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister of State Dr. Ramatu Aliyu has condoled with flood victims at Koton-Karfe in Kogi State. She also gave palliatives to people affected by the flood, The Nation reports. The minister, who visited the monarch of Koton-Karfe, Alhaji Abdulrazaq Gombo, the Ohimegye Igu, said the visit could have come earlier, but…
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Man kills, buries girlfriend in Lagos
The decomposing body of a bar attendant, Oritoke Manni, has been found at a site in Otolu town, Akodo, in the Lekki Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Manni went missing after visiting her boyfriend, Segun Titilayo, at his house in the area. When efforts by Manni’s family members to…
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COVID-19: Former Ghana President, Jerry Rawlings passes on
Former President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana has died of coronavirus-related complications at the age of 73, according to multiple reports from Ghanaian media. The development comes less than a month after he buried his mother. Rawlings, who is one of the most respected African leaders, was a military leader in Ghana and later became a…
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Two ladies remanded over failed murder attempt on Oyetola
An Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, Wednesday, ordered the remand of two ladies for allegedly attempting to murder the state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola. The state Police Command that arraigned the suspects also accused them of stealing and vandalising Justrite, a mall in Osogbo. The suspects, Tajudeen Suliyat and Ayomide Abdulazeez, both aged 20,…
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Bomb blast kills Afghanistan journalist
Officials on Thursday confirmed that one local journalist Ilyas Dayee was killed by a bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. Dayee was killed after a small bomb attached to his vehicle went off in the provincial capital Lashkargah city, the provincial governor’s spokesman and a local politician told dpa. His brother and two civilians…