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Day: August 6, 2019

Strange! Man resurrects from coffin while conveying him for burial ceremony (Watch Video)

Eyewitnesses found it difficult to believe their sight as a man who reportedly died 2 weeks ago resurrected as they convey him for burial. The shocking incident happened en-route Ukpom in Ikono LGA in Akwaibom state while family and friends were conveying the copse of a yet to be identified man for burial. One of…

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Court to rule on DSS’s application to detain Sowore for 90 days

Abuja Federal High Court will, on Thursday, rule in the application filed by the Department of State Service (DSS), seeking an order to detain Mr Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC)’s presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, for 90 days pending the conclusion of its investigation. In an exparte order with number: FHC/ABJ/CS/915/19, Counsel…

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Gov Makinde approves N60m bursary for Oyo Law School students

…Charges them to persevere Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has approved the sum of N500, 000 as bursary to each of the 120 Oyo State indigenes in the Nigerian Law School. Governor Makinde, who received a delegation of the Law School students in his office on Tuesday, charged the students to persevere in the…

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Nigerian man bags 90 years jail term in US for fathering 6 children through his daughters

An award-winning Nigerian music director, Aswad Ayinde, has been sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for founded guilty of fathering children with his daughters. According to Mail Online, Ayinde, 55, of Paterson, New Jersey, United States, was sentenced to 50 years in prison penultimate Friday after being found guilty in the second of five expected trials…

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Court freezes Lagos bank accounts for alleged fraud

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the freezing of three bank accounts said to belong to the Lagos State Government over an alleged fraud of N9.9bn. The Punch reported that the three bank accounts, domiciled in First City Monument Bank, Access Bank, and Zenith Bank, are numbered 5617984012, 0060949275 and 1011691254, respectively….

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One killed, 5 others injured in Ondo bank robbery

One person reportedly lost his life, while five other persons sustained serious injury in a bank robbery at Iju-Itaogbolu in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. The Nation reported that the deceased was said to be a staff of the bank which was located on Akure-Ado-Ekiti road, Iju. This was not the first…

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Oyo NLC meets Makinde tasks him on need to pay N30,000 minimum wage

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Oyo State chapter on Tuesday tasked Governor Seyi Makinde on need to pay the N30,000 minimum wage in the state. The chairman, NLC in the state, Mr Titilola Sodo, gave the charge after a closed door meeting with the Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde . Speaking with newsmen, the…

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Sowore from detention calls for more protests against ‘bad govt’

A Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, on Monday evening called for protest against the Federal Government as he expressed satisfaction that despite his arrest, Nigerians were able to stage the #RevolutionNow protests in some parts of the country. Sowore who was visited by members of ‘Take It Back Movement’ in the custody of the DSS…

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Makinde sets up task force to forestall possible epidemic outbreak in Gbagi market

Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde on Tuesday set up a task force to immediately look into the current environmental situation at the popular Gbagi market in Ibadan to forestall a possibility of outbreak of epidemic. Makinde’s decision is borne out of population size and multi-national nature of those that patronized sellers in the market…

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Apply for United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) Entry-Level recruitments 2019

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa’s leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria, UBA has grown to become a Pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers,…

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