The Edo State House of Assembly has passed a resolution directing the state’s chief judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, to set up a seven-man committee to investigate the allegations of gross misconduct levelled against the deputy governor of the state, Hon. Philip Shaibu.The House passed the resolution at its plenary yesterday.
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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has reportedly tendered an unreserved apology to Delta State first-class monarch Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, over an invitation to question him regarding alleged cases of attempted murder, assault, and others.An online publication reported on Monday that the Olu of Warri was invited by
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu, and a dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, 30, for selling and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to students and at social parties in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.Operatives of the anti-narcotics agency on patrol around the Opolo area of
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The general overseer of the Glory House City Church, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America (USA), Pastor Chuzzy Udenwa, has given scholarships to 30,000 students, aimed at assisting them financially.The cleric, who spoke at the weekend in Minna, Niger State, while ministering to the students drawn from all tertiary institutions
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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has condemned the killing of 16 soldiers (officers and men) and some civilians on Thursday, March 14, 2024, by suspected armed youths.The killings were carried out by youths from the Okuama community in the Ugheli South local government area of Delta State when the
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Th Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said the N1.15 trillion 2024 proposed FCT statutory budget was designed to transform the capital city and rural communities.Wike spoke when he appeared before the Senate and House Committees on FCT to defend the budget. He said of the
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The Kwara State government has concluded plans to introduce the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine, to secondary schools across the state.The state commissioner for education and human capital development, Hajia Sa'adatu Modibbo-Kawu, stated this when the advocacy team from the state Primary Healthcare Development Agency visited her in Ilorin, the
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The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the Federal High Court to send him to Kuje prison.He alleged that the Department of State Services had no medical facility to treat him, adding that there was a conspiracy for him to die in DSS custody.He
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Days after the killing of at least 16 soldiers and officers of the Nigerian Army in the Okuoma community of Delta, the State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, visited President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.Oborevwori told State House correspondents after the meeting that the situation is under
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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, hinted on Tuesday that the 16 soldiers who lost their lives in Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, may have been killed by mercenaries.The Senate President made the assertion during a debate at plenary over the ‘gruesome’
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