Kaduwa Pradhan
7 May
Three Indian nationals have been kidnapped but rescued in Ogun State. On May 4, the Divisional Police Officer of Mowe divisional headquarters received a distress call from the manager of Breeze Company Nigeria Limited, located at Lagos-Ibadan expressway that their staff have been kidnapped. The manager explained that on May 3, while his principals, numbering…
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The federal government has reaffirmed its determination to continue raising awareness of the dangers of social vices that have been bedevilling society, such as drug and substance abuse, banditry, sexual and gender-based violence, trafficking in persons, ritual killings, radicalization, violent extremism, and cybercrime. The Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Lanre Issa-Onilu, gave…
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Eighteen governorship candidates in Akure signed a peace accord on Friday ahead of the 2024 Ondo State off-cycle governorship election scheduled for Nov. 16. Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, Chairman of the National Peace Committee (NPC), who oversaw the signing, said it was to support a peaceful and credible electoral process. He also said the accord would…
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Police in Comoros said Friday they had arrested the alleged leader of a smuggling network involved in the capsizing of a migrant boat that claimed around two dozen lives. The boat sank on a well-known smuggling route between the Comoros island of Anjouan and the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte on November 1. "The…
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The Katsina State Government has recruited, trained, and graduated 550 operatives under the second batch of its Security Watch Corps (SWC) programme to help combat terrorism and related criminality in the state. This comes as suspected bandits killed two security personnel and injured five others in Jibia Local Government Area on Thursday night. Speaking at…
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The Committee Against Bad Governance (CABG) has asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to relieve the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Mele Kyari of his position. The group in a press conference addressed by its Convener, Malam Mohammed Bello in Abuja stated that the “clout chasing gambit of the…
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Police in Comoros said Friday they had arrested the alleged leader of a smuggling network involved in the capsizing of a migrant boat that claimed around two dozen lives. The boat sank on a well-known smuggling route between the Comoros island of Anjouan and the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte on November 1. "The…
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Spain coach Luis de la Fuente on Friday named uncapped trio Aitor Paredes, Marc Casado and Samu Omorodion in his squad for Nations League matches against Switzerland and Denmark. The 20-year-old Omorodion is in line to make his debut with some doubt over the fitness of skipper Alvaro Morata who was admitted to hospital in…
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Global food prices rose in October to their highest level in 18 months, with a sharp increase in the cost of vegetable oil, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices of a basket of food commodities, reached 127.4 points last month, a…
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A Russian court sentenced two soldiers to life in prison for the massacre of a family of nine people in their home in occupied Ukraine, state media reported on Friday. Russian prosecutors said in October 2023, the two Russian soldiers, Anton Sopov and Stanislav Rau, entered the home of the Kapkanets family in the city…
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