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Stay away until Ebonyi is safe, Umahi warns Herders
Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi has warned herdsmen to stay away from the state until peace and calm is restored. He made this known while speaking on Tuesday in Abakaliki, the state capital. Umahi said that with recent killing of policemen and burning of police stations, the region’s problems is beyond herdsmen. He however, pointed out that the herders should not yet return to the state until it is safe. He said: “We are killing policemen, we are burning police station which means that south-east leaders should know that our problem is not just herdsmen. We want to put it…
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No reasonable Government will allow Pantami in it’s cabinet – Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that no reasonable government will allow the Minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami in it’s cabinet. Wike said this reacting to the minister’s previous comments allegedly supporting Al-Qaeda which has generated reactions, with some Nigerians calling for his resignation. Isa Pantami has however, come out to deny association with the terrorist group. Speaking on the situation in an interview on AIT, Wike stated that in an ideal society, the allegations against Pantami should jolt any government into action. “No government can fold its hands and allow it. I don’t understand why…
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Gunmen attack Police Station in Enugu; Kill two Officers
Gunmen are said to have attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters in Adani, Enugu State’s Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area. The incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday. According to reports, two police officers were killed, and several others wounded, when the police station was set on fire The assault on the police station began about 2:30 a.m. and lasted for an hour. This follows several attacks on police stations in the South-East and South-South in recent weeks. Though the Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed arm, Eastern Security Network, were suspected for being behind the attacks by the immediate…
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Senators endorse bill to create database for cows
A bill seeking to create a database for cows is currently being considered on the floor of the senate. The bill for an Act to ‘establish national livestock and management (protection, control and management etc) bureau’ is being sponsored by Bima Enagi (APC, Niger South) and it scaled a second reading on Tuesday April 20. The legislation is aimed at solving the challenge of animal identification and management by establishing the National Livestock Bureau for the purpose of livestock identification, traceability, registration, cattle rustling control and livestock disease control. Enagi who stated that Nigeria has been unable to participate in…
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COVID19 QR code: You are causing serious hardship for people travelling – Singer 2baba calls out NCDC
Singer, 2Face Idibia, has called out officials of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC for ‘frustrating’ Nigerians traveling home from other countries regarding their COVID19 test results. 2Face in a video he shared on Instagram expressed his frustration about the poor work ethics of NCDC officials. He made particular reference to the website of the center as well as the staff who according to him are never available to pick up calls when Nigerians who need their assistance try to reach them. 2Face who was in an airport when he made the video, said some Nigerians are stranded at…
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Buhari cannot be bullied by calls for secession – Garba Shehu
The presidency on Tuesday made it known that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be bullied by calls for secession. This was according to a statement by Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu during a media parley at the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja. He said those calling for secession are the problems of the country. Shehu noted that Nigerians want to be one and continue with the existence of the country. He further added that the Governors of the South-West have all denounced those calls. “One thing with this president is, you can’t intimidate Buhari, you can’t bully him. A…
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Your marriage will hit the rocks if you keep listening to motivational divorcees – Actress Nnaji Charity
Actress Nnaji Charity has asked those taking advice from those she described as “motivational divorcees” to stop as it will make their marriage crash. Charity who gave the advice via an Instastory post she shared, added that only the husbands of these “motivational divorcees” can prove her otherwise. She wrote; Your marriage is 99% about to hit the rock if you keep listening to a motivational divorcee…..E get whyPls and pls don’t ever take advice from a motivational divorcee…..only the ex-husband will proof me order wise….e get why
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No administration has done more than President Buhari’s administration – APC
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that since Nigeria gained independence 1960, no administration has done more for the country than President Buhari has done since he assumed office in 2015. APC National chairman and Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni, stated this on Tuesday, April 20, at the maiden edition of the media interactive session of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Professional Forum. Represented at the forum by the Secretary, Caretaker Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, Buni said “They want to downgrade the government. There has not been a government like this in the history of the nation.And I am not…
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Derek Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death
A Minneapolis jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd after he knelt on his neck for over 9 minutes. Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts Tuesday, April 20, for his involvement in George Floyd’s death, a verdict that could send the disgraced former Minneapolis police officer to prison for the rest of his life. The judge announced that Chauvin was convicted of second- and -third-degree murder, as well as second-degree manslaughter. He faces up to 75 years in prison when he returns for sentencing in eight weeks.…
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Singer Temmie Ovwasa recounts how she made out with her lesbian partner at the back of a church she had gone to perform
Openly gay Nigerian singer, Temmie Ovwasa, has recounted how she went to a church to perform and then made out with her girlfriend at the back of the church. Posting via her Twitter handle, Temmie wrote ”I was 17 when I accepted an invitation to perform in a church in a town that was 6-7hrs away, just so I could see my girlfriend(asuu strike). The bus broke down in the middle of the road, that didn’t faze me. we made out at the back of the church after I performed. God is Good.”
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Nigerians should expect diminished queues from today – NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) Mele Kyari, has assured Nigerians that the queues building up in filling stations will be diminished from today. He sadi this on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. The industrial action by petroleum tanker drivers against their employers over issues of the compensation package had caused the lack of petrol. According to the NNPC MD, the intervention by the corporation has resulted in an amicable settlement between the concerned parties as the industrial action has been called off for a period of…
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NDLEA arrest undergraduate and her boyfriend who produce and sell drugged cookies to school children in Abuja
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 300-level university student identified as Rhoda Agboje and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, who both specialise in producing and selling drugged cookies to school children and other unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja. According to Femi Babafemi, the Spokesperson of the agency on Tuesday, he said narcotics agents with the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Command of the NDLEA have also launched a manhunt for another member of the syndicate involved in producing the cookies with Arizona, a highly psychoactive variant of cannabis; alcohol and rohypnol among other ingredients.…
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