A 15-year-old boy has allegedly staged his own kidnap and demanded the sum of N500,000 as ransom. The minor, who was paraded in Jos on Thursday, told newsmen that he initiated the plan with his friends in order to enable him to buy clothes and celebrate his graduation. “I was the one who initiated the…
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Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem el-Zakzaky has reportedly discharged himself from the Medenta Hospital and is now on his way back to Nigeria barely 96 hours after landing in New Delhi for medical treatment. According to the President, Media Forum of IMN, Ibrahim Musa, he stated that El-Zakzaky and his…
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As Muslims mark the Eid-el-Kabir today, President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Muslims to avoid violent extremist ideas, stating that violent extremism is giving Islam a wrong name. The President said this in a statement on Saturday while felicitating with the Muslim faithful, saying they should be “the mirror through which others see the good virtues…
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Sequel to the robbery incident at the Obafemi Awolowo Hall of the University of Ibadan, the postgraduate hostel of the same university was attacked on Sunday by armed men. About seven men who were armed with machetes entered the female block of the Abdusalami Abubakar Postgraduate hall through a window passage and raided the first…
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Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Timi Frank on Saturday disclosed how the leaders of the party fabricated lies in 2015 to sabotage the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan. With the rising incidence of killing, violence and insecurity nationwide, Frank disclosed that Jonathan managed security challenges in the country…
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The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye, has said that he had a premonition about the February helicopter crash which Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his team survived in Kabba, Kogi State. Adeboye explained that he had received a message from God while praying during the February Holy Ghost Congress that…
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The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, has said a policeman has been killed and two others injured Ijegun area of Lagos. According to Punch some operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad gunned down a shop owner, identified as Biliki, in the Ijegun following which a mob seized one of the policemen and insisted…
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The National Association of Nigerian Students on Saturday shut down South Africa’s grocery chain, Shoprite, at Ota in Ogun State. A News Agency of Nigeria Correspondent in Ota reports that the students picketed the shopping mall to protest what they described as “unrestrained xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.” Scores of young Nigerians residing in South…
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The African Action Alliance on Friday, August 9, expelled its National Chairman and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore from the party. The party at its national convention which held in Owerri, the Imo State capital also suspended 28 other members of the party. The party immediately announced Leonard Nzenwa as the new national chairman of the party. Sowore is currently being held…
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Adeyinka Grandson has been arrested in London for instigating the killing of Igbos in Nigeria. Reports have it that Grandson was arrested at exactly 5:35am by the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command. His arrest was for offences related to Terrorism and Public Order Acts. During the last General Election in Nigeria, Grandson called for the…
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