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A 28-year-old technician, who absconded with a customer’s Toyota car meant for repairs at Ladipo market in Mushin area of Lagos, has been arrested by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. The suspect, Michael Okechukwu Eze, was asked to repair air conditioner of the car, December 20, 2017. When the owner contacted him on phone to know when the car was ready, he was by Eze informed that the car had been stolen. But his disappearance from his workshop aroused the suspicion of the car owner, who alerted policemen at Ilupeju division. Speaking with journalists Tuesday at the headquarters of…

Two persons including a hunter were killed by unsuspected herdsmen Sunday night in Obin-Ayama community, Ika North-East and Onitsha-Olona, Aniocha North Local Government Areas, Delta State. This came as three persons were arrested by the police at Ogbelo-Ogume community, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of the state for cattle rustling. Undisclosed source said the hunters were in the bush close to Ndemili, Ndokwa West, at midnight in search of animals when the herdsmen killed them and inflicted matchete cuts on another. One of the sources , who pleaded anonymity, said; “They went into the bush for hunting and in the…

An outbreak of a cattle disease known as Contagious Bovine Pleuro Pneumonia, CBPP, has killed 13 cows in Hayin Sheka, Sabuwar Kasa in Kafur and Musawa local government areas of Katsina State over the weekend. The Director, Veterinary Services in the State’s Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr. Isa Abba, who confirmed the development Tuesday, said the outbreak was caused by activities of some cattle rearers who graze outside the state and return to the state with the disease. Dr. Abba said though the government has since swung into action with the vaccination of 3,000 contact animals and those…

A teacher in a private Nursery and Primary school (names withheld) in Calabar, Cross River State capital involved in a four-man robbery gang died in a gun duel between the gang and men of the Uwanse Police Division, Calabar along Goldie-Mount Zion road, Calabar south local government area of Cross River State. The police who responded to a distress call engaged the gang in gun battle resulting in the injury of one person and escape of the driver, while the police recovered from them two locally made pistols, phones, laptops and cash, StraightNews gathered. A close source said the gang…

Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, has spoken on why disciplinary actions have not been taken against those behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina into the service. Maina, former chairman of the presidential task force on pension reforms, was recalled and deployed to the Ministry of Interior, under controversial circumstances. Amid the outcry of the news of his reinstatement, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered his sack and asked Oyo-Ita to probe the embarrassing situation. Following a recommendation by the Office of the Head of Service, the Federal Civil Service Commission dismissed Maina in 2013 for absconding from…

The Federal Government says it is alarmed by the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Nigeria, saying 70 percent of the 500 million translating to 350 million of such weapons in West Africa are found in the country. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, retd, Minister of Interior, stated this at a high level meeting on proliferation of small arms and light weapons as well as drug abuse in Nigeria Tuesday in Abuja. He stressed the need to check the trend before the 2019 elections, attributing the proliferation of the illegal weapons to Nigeria’s porous border. “Following the meeting we had…

Hate speeches in Nigeria spread like a raging fire devouring harmonious relationships, severing age-old ancestral ties and endangering communal spirit. The purveyors of the vitriolic messages usually ply their trade on Facebook and other social media where they have absolute control and unhindered access to spew their venoms. In 2015 general elections, All Progressives Congress discovered this willing tool- hate speech and used it effectively to wrestle political power from the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party. Few weeks ago, Facebook and other social media were awash with hate speeches and messages during the purported feud between Senator Godswill Akpabio and…

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has given President Muhammadu Buhari hard knocks on three glaring areas of his inertia, telling him not to seek re-election in the forthcoming general elections. In an 18-page letter to President Buhari, Obasanjo outlined the three major areas he has run aground to include nepotism, lack of understanding of the workings of internal politics and blame game. “But there are three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most of us thought we knew about him. One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant…

The Federal Government has given official recognition to Messrs UC Rusal, a Russian Company, as the core investor of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, following the signing of the Renewed Share Purchase Agreement between Government and the Russian company in Abuja, on Friday. The Renewed Share Purchase Agreement, was signed during a brief ceremony at the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Abuja, witnessed by the Minister, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Minister of State, Hon Abubakar Bawa Bwari; Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), Alex Okoh; Russian Ambassador to Nigeria, Nickolai Udovichenko; CEO/Member…

“I have spent many years of my life in stadiums, but today is a feeling like no other,” elated President George Weah told the mammoth crowds in the capital, Monrovia. Former international soccer star, Weah was sworn in as Liberia’s new president Monday, taking over the impoverished West African nation from Africa’s first female leader soon after 13:00GMT in front of an estimated 35,000 people. It is Liberia’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. The 51-year-old, who was FIFA’s 1995 player of the year, took the oath of office dressed in all white at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports…