The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has arrested a suspected landgrabber, Mr. Urakat Audullahi, who is also known as Saheed Mosadoluwa, aka Ibile, for allegedly attacking and hurting land developers in the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State.Ibile was arrested on Saturday in Lagos and flown to Abuja by a combined team
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The executive secretary of the Student Loan Board, Akintunde Sawyerr, has said the new education loan fund will utilise a fully automated application process.He disclosed this to State House correspondents yesterday alongside the executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zaccheus Adedeji, after briefing President Bola Tinubu at
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has recorded a four percent reduction in road crash deaths in one month, between December 15, 2023, and January 15, 2024.The FRSC also recorded a 22 percent decrease in death caused by road crashes in 2023.At a press briefing in Abuja to mark the
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has verified the authenticity of paracetamol tablets on the Nigerian market after thorough laboratory testing.Recall that social media platforms were awash with reports from a publication titled “Nearly all paracetamol tablets in Nigeria are possibly underdosed."In response, NAFDAC conducted
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Air strikes undertaken by the air component of Operation Whirl Punch eliminated a well-known terrorist and kidnapping kingpin, Janari, and several members of his syndicate.The strikes were executed on Thursday, January 18, 2024, after Janari and his gang were sighted at a location near Gadar Katako in the Igabi local
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The family of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has decried the Supreme Court's delay in the release of the Certified True Copy (CTC) of its ruling on Kanu's matter.On December 15, 2023, the Supreme Court set aside the ruling of the Appeal Court, which,
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Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a suspect, Joel Mba Okodi, who has been on the wanted list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for four years.The police spokesperson in the state, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt, said
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted large consignments of cocaine and colorado, a strong strain of cannabis, concealed in containerized household items and vehicles imported from Durban, South Africa, and Canada at the Tincan Seaport in Lagos.The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement that the
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Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has advocated implementation of grade level 09 entry point for engineers into the civil service.The appeal was made at the weekend during the investiture of the first female and 34th President of NSE, Engr. Mrs Margaret Aina Oguntala in Abuja.Oguntala in her inaugural speech, assured
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Former President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, who faces charges related to an alleged attempted coup, has left Sierra Leone and arrived in Nigeria, according to sources.Koroma, who served as president from 2007 to 2018, was granted permission by Sierra Leonean judicial authorities on Wednesday to spend up to
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