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Police apprehend yahoo CDHR members in Delta
By Tega Odje SIX suspected internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Yahoo Boys, have been aprehended by police, just as they confessed on camera how they joined a popular human rights group units at Uvwie and Udu local government areas of Delta State to enjoy cover in carrying out their nefarious activities. In six separate confessional audio-visual clips obtained by our Correspondent...
Allow Tribunals, Supreme Court work – Gowon Warns Politicians
Former military head of state, Yakubu Gowon has urged aggrieved candidates in the 2023 general election to accept the outcome of the election petition tribunals and the Supreme Court. Gowon made this plea on Thursday while speaking at the 15th edition of Punuka annual lecture 2023 in honour of a late supreme court justice, Chukwunweike Idigbe, in Abuja. According to him,...
Rep. Ben Kalu Welcomes Senate President, Lawan To Bende, Applauds His Support For Sen. Kalu
Member representing Bende Federal Constituency and Spokesperson of the House of Reps, Hon. Benjamin Kalu on Saturday welcomed the Senate President, His Excellency, Sen. Ahmad Lawan to the to the const...
Buhari Writes Senate, To Borrow Fresh $4bn And €710m
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly, seeking approval to borrow the sum of $4,054,476,863 billion and €710 million. The request was made known in a letter read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan at plenary on Tuesday. In the letter titled Addendum to Request For Senate’s Concurrent Approval Of Multilateral Fund Projects Under the 2018-2021 Federal Government External Borrowing...
Tinubu, Others Accused Of Fraud, Tax Evasion, Money Laundering
Dapo Apara, a Nigerian chartered accountant, has accused a former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu; a consulting firm, Alpha-beta, and a former commissioner in the state, Akin Doherty, of money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, and sundry corrupt practices. Mr Apara, in writ of summons deposed to at a Lagos high court, claimed that Mr Tinubu and Alpha-beta reneged on...
Police Confirms Killing Of DCO By Bandits In Zamfara
Zamfara State Police Command has confirmed that a group of armed men suspected to be bandits, wielding sophisticated weapons, attacked the Zurmi division at Nasarawa Area of Zurmi Local Government Area. It said that the policemen on duty retaliated and repelled the attack after a serious gun duel in which many of the bandits were killed and some took to...
Man dies after drinking herbal mixture
The Osun State Police Command on Monday said it had commenced investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of one Mutiu Adekunle, who died after drinking a herbal mixture. Adekunle’s death occurred on Sunday around 11.15 pm at a hospital where he was rushed to, having developed complications after drinking a herbal mixture given to him by one Alfa Nureni...
Veteran Journalist Peter Enahoro Is Dead
A veteran journalist and one of Nigeria’s most celebrated columnists, Peter Enahoro, is dead. Enahoro, popularly known by his pen name, Peter Pan, died in London, the United Kingdom on Monday, aged 88. The development was announced in a terse statement by Nigeria’s foremost female journalist, Ms Bunmi Sofola. The statement read in part, “Regret to announce the passing on of our...
Tinubu’s Legal Team Bars Media Interviews On Petitions Against Presidential Election
The legal team of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, has placed a ban on media interviews throughout the defense of their client in the three petitions against him. The legal team ordered that any lawyer that flouts the ban, no matter his rank or how highly placed, would be kicked out of...
Insecurity: Nigeria Difficult Country To Secure, Saya Former NSA, Gusau
Former National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Gusau (rtd) has opined that Nigeria is a difficult country to secure with an estimated population of 223.8 million and a diverse terrain covering 923,768 square kilometres. Speaking during the launch of the Askarawa security outfit created by the Zamfara State government to complement the work of the security agencies on Wednesday, the retired...
