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Month: June 2019

Mob intercepts man who wants to use his wife and son for rituals in Lagos (VIDEO)

Below is a video showing a woman who was tied up in a car with her son by her husband and his friend who intended to use them for money rituals. Things were going according to plan for them until the woman screamed for help. Her cry attracted passersby who approached the vehicle and rescued…

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Kaduna House of Assembly passes bill to ban open religious preaching

The Kaduna State House of Assembly has passed a bill that seek to ban open religious preaching in 23 Local Governments of the state. Speaker of the House, Aminu Abdullahi Shagali while reading the bill during plenary, said a state inter-faith Regulatory council has been established with a chairman to be appointed by the Governor…

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LGs,LCDAs dissolution: Gov. Makinde reacts as Oyo ALGON chairman cries out over threat to his life

The chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Oyo State chapter, Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye, has alleged that supporters of Governor Seyi Makinde and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, are after his life as a result of his resistance to the dissolution of the local government councils by the governor. In…

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Gov. Makinde appoints UK based lawyer as DG Due Process

The government of Oyo State has named Ms. Tara Adefope as the Director General of Due Process Office. Adefope’s letter of appointment, which was dated June 6, 2019 and signed on behalf of Governor Seyi Makinde by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Bisi Ilaka indicated that the appointment takes immediate effect. The…

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I have lost weight since I assumed office, says Sanwo-Olu

Following his assumption as Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday said he has started losing weight as a result of the enormity and pressing demands of the office. “I dare say that I have lost weight and probably I will lose a little bit more but I think it’s what the job entails and…

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Cultists go on rampage in Ikorodu as couple, another killed

•Hoodlums vandalized shops, police arrested 21 Suspected members of the Black Axe cult group in Ikorodu area of Lagos State at the wee hours of Friday murdered a couple and a mentally unstable woman. The killings occurred around 3:42am at Itupate after armed men said to be over 80, stormed the area in search of…

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Paradigm Initiative condemns NBC’s violation of Press Freedom on AIT, RayPower

Paradigm Initiative has in strong term condemned the action of the National Broadcasting Commission in stifling free expression and the freedom of the press by revoking the license of broadcasting channel, AIT/RayPower for clearly undemocratic reasons. In a statement issued on Friday, Paradigm Initiative said: “the NBC claims that its monitoring reports reveal that the…

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Court acquit journalist’s alleged killer wife of murder case

A housewife, Amina Dauda who was accused of killing her husband, Mohammed Matazu, a former reporter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), in Kaduna State was on Friday discharge and acquitted by an FCT High Court in Maitama. Dauda, 28, was arraigned before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf, on May 22, 2013, on a one…

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Breaking: Court rejects AIT,RayPower’s prayer to restrain NBC’s order

•As court grants alternative relief of maintaining status quo A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an order ex-parte for the maintenance of status quo, pending the determination of a motion filed by DAAR Communications Plc in its suit challenging the suspension of its operating licence by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Justice Inyang…

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PDP governors agree to pay N30,000 new minimum wage (Read details)

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors have expressed their readiness to pay the N30,000 minimum wage recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa, disclosed while speaking with newsmen at the end of the forum’s meeting which ended in the early hours of…

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