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Soldiers dismantle barricades on Ife/Ilesha/Akure Expressway, threatens protesting OAU students
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo A convoy of soldiers on Wednesday ran into the barricades mounted by protesting students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, over the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The students had mounted sbarricades close to Oduduwa University roundabout and also at the Moro end of Ife/Ilesha/Akure Expressway, thereby causing traffic…
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Supo Shonibare in police net for parading self as SDP chairman
Temitope Adedeji, Akure Prominent politician, Chief Supo Shonibare has been arrested and detained by the Police for parading himself as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He was arrested alongside Sir Patrick Anethua and detained at the FCT Police Command, Garki, Abuja around 11am on Wednesday. They were still being held down as at 4pm at the FCT…
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We’ll monitor use of Facebook by IPOB to incite violence, says FG
The Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed says the Federal Government will start monitoring Facebook for the members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who use it to incite violence. Mohammed said this when he met with a team from Facebook on Tuesday. The information minister asked Facebook and other social media platforms to stop allowing the…
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Shekarau, former Kano State governor, dumps APC, joins NNPP
Former Governor of Kano State Senator Ibrahim Shekarau has finally dumped the All Progressives Congress following intractable fallout with Governor Abubakar Ganduje to join New Nigeria People’s Party. Shekarau challenged the Governor over control of the party leadership in Kano State and eventually went to court to challenge the outcome of state congress. Shekarau’s faction initially won at Federal High…
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Make me your President, I can chart path to success-Tinubu tells Kwara delegates
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Kwara All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has urged people of Kwara and delegates in the forthcoming party primary election to support his ambition and make him the next president of the country. He said he would be coming up with a lot of programmes, chart the path to success and make way for…
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NSCDC rescues four under-age girls in Kwara, arrests trafficker
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Kwara The Kwara State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has rescued four under aged girls who were being trafficked from Port Harcourt in Rivers State to Ilorin, Kwara State for the purpose of being used as sex slaves/prostitutes. NSCDC Commandant in the State, Makinde Iskil Ayinla disclosed this in a statement issued by…
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Absence of judge stalls suit to stop Osun, Ekiti, 2023 general elections
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo A suit filed by some members of the Ilana Omo Oduduwa, contesting the legality of the 1999 Constitution as the framework upon which to conduct the Osun, Ekiti and the 2023 general elections, was on Tuesday frustrated due to the absence of the trial judge. Some members of the organization had taken the Attorney General of…
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Stop IPOB from using your platform to incite violence, FG warns Facebook
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has asked Facebook and other social media platforms to stop allowing the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to use their platforms to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in Nigeria.The minister made the demand in Abuja on Tuesday at a meeting with a team from Facebook.He said since IPOB had been…
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Presidency replies NEF, says no group can tell anyone to leave Nigeria
The presidency says no group can threaten anyone else to leave the country. The presidency said this in a statement signed by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu on Tuesday. “We are aware of the latest statement from the so-called ‘Northern Elders Forum’. “We wish to reassure Nigerians that it remains their democratically elected…
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Nigeria will sustain investments in aviation safety, security, Buhari assures ICAO
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja, said more investments will be deployed to the provision of infrastructure and facilities for safe, secure, environmentally friendly and sustainable civil aviation. The President, who received the Secretary General of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Mr Juan Carlos Salazar, at the State House, said Nigeria will support the ideals and aspirations of ICAO…
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