Archive for year: 2019

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the closure of operations of Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) and P&ID Nigeria Limited (P&ID). Two directors of the company were also convicted of charges bordering on economic sabotage and money laundering. With this conviction, the FG may now ask...

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Comrade Rodney Nathan (pictured), the chairman of the #Adamawa State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has refuted reports that a teacher raped a 12-year-old schoolgirl in Namtari. Tribune Online reports that Nathan said the claims made by Adamawa Police command, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (#NSCDC), were...

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Despite the fact that most Nigerians are angry about the fact that senate members of the 9th Assembly are to use about N5.5 billion to purchase vehicles, the leader of the Senate, Yahaya Abdullahi, sees nothing wrong in it. According to Leadership Newspaper, the Senator said people are just...

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A 20-year-old student of the Ekiti State University Ado Ekiti (EKSU), identified as Bukola Odeyemi, has allegedly stabbed her 22-year-old boyfriend, John Iju, to death. The 300-level Biology Education student allegedly stabbed Iju at Treasure Base Hostel, Iworoko-Ekiti, for refusing to give her N2,500 to make her hair. Witnesses...

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Oscar Okwurime, a Nigerian man whose death in a detention centre in the UK is the subject of an investigation by the Home Office, repeatedly said he was feeling sick in the weeks leading up to his death. He died last week at the Harmondsworth removal centre, where he was...

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  Ediozi Odi, a Nigerian human trafficking kingpin, has been sentenced to 129 years imprisonment in addition to 6 life sentences in Pretoria, South Africa. According to iol.co.za, his underage victims are from poor homes and were promised a better life, but had no idea that they were entering...

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Precious Moses, a 300 Level student of the Ambrose Alli University, #Ekpoma, Edo State, has been scalded with hot water by her flatmate, Flourish Chigwe. It was gathered that trouble started after Precious misplaced Flourish’s drawing board. This degenerated into a misunderstanding, during which she was bathed with hot water....

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At least 27 children were killed after a fire broke out at their religious school in #Liberia on Wednesday. . The blaze started about midnight and gutted a dormitory and school building where students slept in Paynesville, near #Monrovia. Only the imam, their teacher, and two students managed to escape. The cause...

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