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No fewer than 19 post-graduate students granted scholarships by the presidential amnesty programme have allegedly been abandoned by the federal government. The students, who are currently in their final year at the People’s Friendship University of Russia, alleged that Paul Boroh, sacked co-ordinator of the presidential amnesty programme, stopped sending funds to them in June 2016. President Muhammadu Buhari had sacked Boroh on March 13 and ordered anti-graft agencies to probe the amnesty programme, and replaced him with Prof. Charles Dokubo. Leader of the scholarship beneficiaries, Abilo Franz, said in a statement that a delegation of the students met with…

No fewer than 13 persons have been killed in fresh attacks in four villages in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State, and Ukemberagya community, Gaambe-Tiev council ward of Logo local government area of Benue State. While 10 were killed by bandits in Birnin Gwari communities on Tuesday, three others were slaughtered in Benue by herdsmen Thursday. In the Birnin Gwari incident, which came less than three days after Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff, gave his men a three-week ultimatum to flush out bandits from the area, the bandits overran Mashigi, Dakwaro, Sabon gida, and another village killing at least ten people,…

Trouble is looming in Ovre-Eku community, Delta State, as detectives have arrested its chief for allegedly intruding and burying charm, together with live goat, hot drink and yam at the plantation of Presco Plc Nigeria in Orhiomwon local government area, Edo State. However, Chief Felix Okotie, spokesperson to the President-General of Ovre-Eku community, Chief Joseph Ukueku told Vanguard “The chief priest of Ovre Eku was arrested at the Eruotor Shrine in Ovre-Eku, Eku to the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 5, Benin City, Edo state, by Presco police Tuesday afternoon. He did nothing wrong.” Differing with…

The Muslim law has caught with a Sudanese woman who married without the father’s consent as she on completion of a six-month imprisonment was flogged 75 lashes. Apart from her punishment, her husband was sentenced to two years of imprisonment. “She completed her six months in jail and today she was flogged 75 times” as ordered by the court, lawyer Azza Mohamed Ahmed told AFP. The woman, a resident of the war-torn Darfur region, was flogged at a police station in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, after having served a six-month prison sentence. This incident is just a week…

Attempt by some suspected robbers to rescue their colleagues earlier arrested by the police proved abortive Tuesday in Oleh, Isoko South local government area, Delta State, as three of them were killed in a gun battle with men of the state police command. It was gathered that the deceased killed on Tuesday, were members of a robbery gang that have been terrorising Oleh and its environs. Confirming the incident Wednesday, Mr. Andrew Aniamaka, Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, said the suspected robbers were killed after they had ambushed some police officers from the Oleh divisional headquarters, who…

A Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting at Ebute- Metta, Lagos, Wednesday, sentenced a property developer, to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding 133 accommodation seekers of N25 million. Chief Magistrate O. O. Olatunji convicted the property developer, Alhaji Ayobami Oseni after his plea of “guilty” to 267 counts of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretences and stealing. Mr. Olatunji said that the offences contravened Section 285, and is punishable under sections 312 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. He sentenced Oseni to 10 years imprisonment on each of the 267 counts without an option of fine. The Magistrate said…

Two men who allegedly stole their neighbour’s, Bajaj motorcycle, killed the owner and dumped his body in the bush have been apprehended by men of Ogun State Police Command. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said the two suspects; Patrick Udom, 35, from Akwa Ibom State and Roland James, 25, from Delta State have been arrested. Oyeyemi said they were arrested following a complaint by the elder brother of the victim, one Moses Utuede, who reported at Obalende Divisional headquarters that his younger brother, Happy Patrick left home around 7 a.m. on 15th…

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo says “Even the position that I currently occupy, I did not ask for it and I’m prepared to leave it at a short notice. It doesn’t mean anything.” Osinbajo, who addressed Benue stakeholders Tuesday night in Makurdi, shortly after visiting IDPs camps for victims of herdsmen crisis in the state, was reacting to statements by the Catholic Bishop of Gboko, Most Rev. William Avenya, who had alleged that the Vice President had been mute in the face of killings, oppression of smaller tribes and the palpable fear of an Islamic agenda by the present government. The…

Barely 24 hours after the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, reported a sustained decrease in inflation rate, the Bureau, Wednesday, reported that transport fare was moving in opposite direction, with the average fare paid by commuters for bus, air, water and motorcycle (Okada) journeys, rising for the fourth consecutive month in April 2018. The NBS stated this in its Transport fare watch April 2018 report. Data by the NBS showed that average fare paid by commuters for motorcycle recorded the highest increase, month-on-month ( MoM) in April, followed by fare for bus within the city, fare for water way transport,…

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has given contractors handling the Oron-Calabar section of the East-West road a matching order to speed up completion of the road before the rains. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this Wednesday while briefing the State House correspondents after the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mohammed further said, “Council directed the Minister of Niger Delta to speed up re-negotiations with the contractors to ensure immediate resumption of the completion of that phase of road.” He announced that the FEC has…