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The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, has been invited to the House of Representatives by the House Committee on Petitions over some officers’ refusal to retire. The Obasi-Pherson Help Foundation had alleged that some Assistant Comptrollers and Comptrollers were due for retirement but had blatantly refused to leave the service. The House…

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A driver, Chibuike Oliagba, 24, who allegedly assaulted his uncles with a cutlass, on Wednesday, appeared before an Amawbia Chief Magistrates’ Court, Awka. Oliagba, a native of Agbani Village, Nibo in Awka, is charged with assault and threatening violence. The Prosecutor, Insp John Ogbonnaya told the court that the defendant committed the offences on Feb.…

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Libya's minister for cabinet affairs, Adel Juma, was wounded in an attempted assassination in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, the Government of National Unity said in a statement. The UN-recognised GNU, which is based in Tripoli, condemned the attack and said Juma was "in stable condition" after "shots were fired at his car" by an…

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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Illela Border Command, Sokoto State, has arrested a suspected human trafficker, Sirajo Illela, and rescued two female victims bound for Libya. The Comptroller of the command, Mr. Tony Akuneme said this in a statement issued by the Command Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Abdullahi Mohammed on Wednesday in Abuja. Akuneme said…

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Public toilets in Katangua Market in Lagos have been sealed for discharging effluents into public drains and exposing people to communicable diseases. The operators of the public toilets engaged in environmental pollution by using pumping machines to pump untreated wastewater and sewage into public drains. The toilets were sealed following investigations by the Lagos State…

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Gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded Dogon Ruwa community in Wase Local Council of Plateau State on Monday morning, abducting a man, his wife, and their child.

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Concerned Rivers People have advised Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara to refrain from implicating Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike in his ongoing Supreme Court dispute. In a statement issued by Alex Nwogu, the group’s Public Relations Officer, CRP expressed dismay at attempts by certain factions to malign Wike following the dismissal of Fubara’s…

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A Kogi State youth group has condemned recent "malicious and baseless" publications circulating on social media, accusing Austin Usman Okai, a prominent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) figure, of spreading misinformation aimed at undermining the state government's progress. The Kogi Progressives Youth for Good Governance, in a statement released by Secretary-General Adejoh Sylvester Ikani, specifically addressed…

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Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have apprehended a 35-year-old armed robbery suspect, Innocent Chigozie, alleged to be the leader of a cultist gang responsible for terrorising farmlands along Uzo Afor Road in Okahia Community, Elele, Etche Local Council.

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Ime Obi Onitsha, the apex traditional council of the commercial city, has expressed deep sorrow and outrage over the gruesome killing of Justice Azuka, a lawmaker representing Onitsha North Constituency 1 in the Anambra State House of Assembly.