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Unilag 13 freed
Mobile Court yesterday freed the 13 University of Lagos (Unilag) students it ordered detained in Kirikiri prisons last Saturday. The Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Task Force) court sitting in Oshodi freed them at the instance of their lawyer, Mr Monday Ubani. The students, including a rusticated…
Read More »Germany, Belgium, others deport 50 Nigerians
Fifty Nigerians were on Thursday deported from eight European countries over immigration and drug-related offences. The countries are Germany, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Austria. Others are Belgium, Spain, Hungary and Sweden. The latest deportation is coming barely 48 hours after 40 Nigerians were deported for the same reasons from Italy and…
Read More »PDP’s internal crisis remains
The stakeholders meeting called by former president, Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday, to resolve the Peoples Democratic party’s leadership crisis ended without resolution, as Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, Chairman of the Party walked out of the stakeholders meeting. Sheriff who got to the venue of the meeting a few minutes after…
Read More »Ban: Jehovah’s Witnesses many ‘sins’
Russian government on Thursday listed the sins of Jehovah’s Witnesses to include the prohibiting of its members from taking blood transfusion. Spokeswoman for Russia’s Justice Ministry told the Supreme Court that the action by the church violates the law on resistance to extremism. It was on the second day of…
Read More »Herdsmen: FG to deploy 3000 ‘Agro-rangers’
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it plans to deploy 3,000 Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC) personnel to protect farms and agricultural investments in the country. Minister of Interior Abdulrahman Dambazau, revealed in Abuja, while briefing newsmen on efforts by the government to protect Nigerians and their property…
Read More »Nigerian women turned sex slaves by ISIS in Libya
Five Nigerians were among the 35 women captured by the Islamic state fighters in Sirte, Libya and turned into sex slaves for months. The Nigerians, including two children and 28 Eritreans were recovered by Libyan forces last December and then made to face another spell of detention in a Misrata…
Read More »Jehovah’s Witnesses’ faces another ban, may be declared extremist organisation in Russia
After being banned during Joseph Stalin’s reign in the Soviet Union in the late 19th century, where thousands of members were deported to Siberia, Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian organisation faces another ban in Russia. Russia’s Supreme Court will today, Thursday hear a request by the government to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses…
Read More »FG launches Nigeria’s Economic Recovery Growth Plan
The Federal Government has launched the Nigeria Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) which seeks to restore the nation’s economic status following the high rate of inflation and recession. The ERGP was launched before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting inside the Council Chamber, Aso Rock, Abuja…
Read More »Strike: ASUP issues 3-week ultimatum
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has given the federal government a three-week ultimatum, effective from March 27, 2017 to address the shortfalls in the personnel and other payments owed its members or face industrial action. President of the union, Comrade Usman Dutse, who disclosed this to journalists, said…
Read More »Meningitis outbreak, God sent to punish Nigerians- Governor Yari
Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State has said that the outbreak of Type C Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the country was a direct punishment from God to the people of Nigeria for their various sinful acts. Yari whose Zamfara state appeared to be worst hit said that God had always sent…
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