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Bukola Saraki, Senate President Monday condemned the attack on Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi in Yobe State by suspected Boko Haram insurgents. In a statement in Abuja by Yusuph Olaniyonu, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Saraki described the attack as one too many, and urged the security agencies to get to the root of the matter by bringing the perpetrators to book.. Saraki called on security agencies to reinforce security around academic institutions in the country to prevent criminal elements from taking advantage of such soft targets to disrupt academic activities and wreck havocs at a time the…

The 2018 Akwa Ibom Appropriation Bill passed last Wednesday by the state House of Assembly into Law has become an Act. This follows assent to the 2018 bill totaling N646.6 billion by Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State on Monday at the State Executive Council Chamber, Government House, Uyo. . The amount is against the N651billion which the governor had earlier proposed to the State House of Assembly. A break-down of the budget shows that N431billion is for capital expenditure, N94.6 billion for Recurrent Expenditure while Consolidated Revenue funds charges stands at N120.8billion. Emmanuel thanked the House of Assembly and…

Justice Sybil Nwaka of Ikeja Special Offences and Sexual Court, Tuesday, sentenced a 58-year-old man to a 60 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a 12-year-old pupil. Justice Nwaka sentenced Obinna Izegben after he found him guilty of the charge of defilement brought against him by Lagos State. “This defendant is charged with the offence of defilement of a child, contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal law of Lagos State 2015. “Upon his plea of guilty, the prosecution stated the fact of the case and it was established that he was found guilty of the offence. I cannot agree…

Vandora, one of the evicted Big Brother Naija 3 housemates, has said that she was voted out for refusing to partake in s*xual activities. She claimed her eviction is connected to this. Vandora, who was evicted alongside her strategic partner, Dee-One on Sunday, said she was traumatized after the eviction. She said people did not vote for her despite being true to her personality, although she is happy she formed new friendship. Speaking to Africa Magic, Vandora said, “I was evicted because people did not vote, Our pair was not ordinary. According to her, ”I don’t think we did anything…

“I forced her to go back to school against her wish, unknown to me that this calamity is awaiting her here,” Amina Usama, a mother of an abducted student in Yobe State, bellowed and sobbed uncontrollably. Usama could not trace her daughter who is one of the 94 students in Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, in Burasari local government area of Yobe state abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Monday, February 19. She cannot forgive herself at the turn of event, saying, ”My daughter always complained that there was no security in the school.” Another parent, Lamuwa Yadi, said…

Police have burst a purported baby-making home in Imo State and rescued nine pregnant girls. Briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt, Cyril Okoro, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Administration who addressed the press on behalf of Mr. Ahmed Zaki, the state Commissioner of Police, said the Inspector-General of Police monitoring team led by ACP Bennet Igwe discovered the girls while they were searching the home of one Mrs. Ngozi Egeonu in Imo. Okoro further said: “Operatives of the IGP team unit acting on credible intelligence arrested Nkechi Uzoemene, Roseline Okey and Nwolu Rita who conspired among themselves and sold a two-month old…

Forty-nine passengers Tuesday escaped death after a Dana Air plane overshot the runway of the Port Harcourt Airport. A Dana aircraft with registration number 5N-SRI performing a flight from Lagos to Port Harcourt overshot the runway and ended up in the bush in Omagwa, Port Harcourt. Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) confirmed the incident in a statement issued in Lagos. Yakubu said: “A Dana aircraft flight 9J0363, flying from Abuja to Port Harcourt airport, has overshot the Port Harcourt runway. “The incident was suspected to have been caused by a heavy rain, which…

The Federal Government Monday challenged the powers of the National Judicial Council, NJC, to interfere in the ongoing criminal proceeding it initiated against Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja. Federal government had in a 10-count charge marked CCT/ABJ/01/17, alleged that apex court jurist had between June 2, 2011 and July 19, 2016, refused to declare his ownership of 28 plots of land to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB. It accused Justice Ngwuta who is also facing another 18-count criminal charge before the Federal High Court in Abuja, of engaging…

The Police Intelligence response Team under the office of Inspector-General of Police has arrested the ring leader of the Fulani herdsmen and three other kingpins who carried out the killing of scores of Benue citizens in a bloodbath attack, following the enactment of the law against open grazing by the Benue state government. The suspects are Alhaji Laggi 40 years, mastermind and gang leader of the herdsmen group; Mallam mumini Abdullahi 34 years, Muhammed adamu 30 years and Ibrahim Sule 32 years. A senior Police source attached to the IGP’s IRT stated that the ring leader and three other suspected…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Monday, said it has spent $5.8 billion about N1.8 trillion to import 9.8 million metric tonnes of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to tackle the scarcity in the country. In a statement in Abuja, Mr. Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of the NNPC, stated this Tuesday during a public hearing by the Senate Committee on Public Accounts at the National Assembly Complex. Baru, who was represented by Mr. Abdulrazaq Isiaka, the Chief Operating Officer, Finance and Accounts, said the NNPC carried out the massive importation in fulfilment of its statutory role of supplier of last…