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Blessing Okagbare may go to jail over alleged illegal drug use – AFN reveals
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has expressed fear and concern over allegations of Blessing Okagbare’s illicit drug use. Okagbare has been charged with three offences by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), and was suspended just before her semifinal race at the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for a human growth hormone following an out-of-competition test on July 19. The 32-year-old was said to have later tested positive for another banned substance, recombinant erythropoietin (EPO), which increases red blood cell count. She has also been charged for not cooperating with the AIU’s investigation. Speaking with The Guardian, an official of…
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Prepare your handover Note, Nigerians want you out of Govt quickly – PDP to APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to accept their mass failures in party management and governance and stop bothering Nigerians with their regular lamentations.Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary in a statement on Wednesday, noted that, PDP’s position is predicated on a statement by the APC in which it claimed to have improved on electoral process in the country, “whereas what abounds in our nation is a painful story of how the APC has destroyed our economy, our electoral process and our national unity, to the extent that life has become despondent…
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Stop ignoring first ladies – Aisha Buhari to media
First Lady, Aisha Buhari has called on the media to stop shunning governors’ wives.She spoke on Wednesday night in Abuja at an event where some first ladies were honoured.Aisha, the Special Guest of Honour, was represented by her spokesman, Aliyu Abdullahi.Aisha commended the wives of governors who have been assisting women, the elderly, the poor and the less-privileged.“I call on media practitioners to engage more with first ladies so that their projects can get more visibility.“The partnership will be a win-win because the media would have discharged a part of its social responsibility”, NAN quoted her as saying.The country’s First…
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Catholic priest abducted in Abia state
A newly ordained Catholic priest identified as Rev Fr Godfrey Mark Chimezie, officiating priest at St Theresa Catholic Church, Umuahia, Abia State, has been abducted. Fr. Chimezie was kidnapped along Enyiukwu Road Ohokobe Afaraukwu community, Ibeku in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State after concluding a morning mass at St Gabriel ,Okpururie, Afaraukwu. He was reportedly forced out of his car, a Toyota Corolla into an SUV driven by the kidnappers, after which they sped away.
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Corps members can be recruited to fight insecurity, those not willing to join the military services can serve in their community without pay – Governor Fayemi
Governor of Ekiti, Dr Kayode Fayemi State has opined that Corps members can be recruited to fight insurgents, as the security situation in the country requires concerted effort to address it.He said this at an event in Ibadan. According to him, the present situation in the country does not warrant politics of blame and opportunistic opposition, but “it is time to build a nation and not to fritter it away.”The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Fayemi stressed that Nigeria is in need of patriotic statesmen and women and not rumour mongers, ethnic crisis entrepreneurs, provincial men of little minds…
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E-transmission of election result will stop money politics, mediocrity, and political blackmailing – Sheik Gumi
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has commended the senate’s decision to allow the Independent National Electoral Commission transmit election results electronically. The controversial Islamic scholar expressed his opinion in a Facebook post he shared. He said the decision will halt money politics, mediocrity, political blackmailing, rigging and votes manipulation which has become a familiar occurrence in the political field for a very long time. The cleric noted that though there are a lot of technical issues involved, but nothing is insurmountable. He wrote; Since 1999 when the khaki returned to the barracks, we’ve not heard the better good news for Nigerians as…
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Bandits release 90 students, staff of Federal Government College Kebbi
Bandits have released 90 abducted students and staff of Federal Government College (FGC), Birnin Yauri in Kebbi State after being in captivity for 118 days The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, DSP Nafi’u Abubakar confirmed the released of the students and their teachers to newsmen but did not make further clarification. A parent of one of the abducted students also confirmed the release of the students. “Yes. They were released yesterday but are still with the authorities. They are expected to undergo some medical check up before they are released to parents,” he said. When asked whether there…
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Why DSS released Chiwetalu Agu – Ozekhome
Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has disclosed why the Department of State Services, DSS, released Nollywood veteran, Chiwetalu Agu.Ozekhome said the actor was released after they searched his phones and found nothing incriminating.The 65-year-old actor was first arrested by the Nigerian Army last Thursday for wearing Biafra regalia in Onitsha, Anambra State.He was arrested in Upper Iweka Bridge by soldiers while carrying out a charity exercise.Agu was, however, released by the Nigerian Army on Friday, but was re-arrested by DSS operatives who were said to have transferred the veteran actor to Abuja for interrogation.However, Ozekhome in a Statement he…
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BREAKING: Nollywood actor, Chiwetalu Agu released from DSS detention
Nollywood veteran actor, Chiwetalu Agu, has been released from the detention of the Department of State Services (DSS).His release was made possible by the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN).Agu was arrested by DSS hours after he was released by the Nigerian Army last week.The guild made this known in a statement signed by its communication director, Monalisa Chinda on their official page.It reads; “The National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ejezie Emeka Rollas has yet again secured the release of Actor Chiwetalu Agu from the custody of the DSS.“On behalf of the Guild, I was at the DSS…
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Six Women, Nine Children escape from Boko Haram Captivity
Six women and nine children kidnapped in the North-East have escaped their captors, walking for six days through the bush to freedom The 15 hostages were seized separately from the farming villages of Takulashi in Borno state’s Chibok district and Cofure in neighbouring Adamawa’s Hong district several months ago. According to Zuwaira Gambo, Borno’s women affairs commissioner, three of the hostages along with their five children were seized during a raid on Takulashi in October last year, while the other three with their four children were abducted from Cofure in May. The hostages, including an eight-month pregnant woman from Cofure,…
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DSS flies actor Chiwetalu Agu to Abuja, bars family visitation
The Department of State Services has flown veteran actor, Chiwetalu Agu, to Abuja as part of it’s investigations over allegations that the actor was promoting Biafra and inciting members of the public.Agu was first arrested by the Nigerian Army on October 7, 2021, around Upper Iweka in Onitsha, Anambra State, for wearing a Biafra outfit while distributing bread and other items to the poor.The army had accused him of soliciting support for the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra which has been accused of several acts of terrorism. He was subsequently handed over to the DSS for investigation and prosecution. A…
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Usifo Ataga: Suspected killer, Chidinma pleads not guilty
Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Super Tv CEO, Usifo Ataga.Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, in July said the slain Ataga was said to be drugged before he was killed. Ojukwu appeared in court on Tuesday before Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square.She, alongside one Adedapo Quadri, who are the key suspects in the murder case, pleaded not guilty to eight counts bordering on offences of murder, forgery and stealing.Chidinma’s sister, Egbuchu Chioma, from whom…
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