Lagos House of Assembly
6 Jun 2024
The Anwar Ul-Islam College Agege Old Students Association Class of 1987 will this weekend host one of their classmates recently promoted in the Nigeria Police Force. He is Ahmed Lateef, a former Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) now promoted to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) rank. Lateef is among the ’87 Class of ACAOSA…
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A court in Mauritius on Monday released on bail the island's former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe after seizing suitcases of cash in raids on his alleged accomplices' homes. Police detained the 63-year-old along with his wife Kobita Jugnauth on Saturday and questioned them for several hours, police sources told AFP. Kobita…
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An army jet killed at least six civilians after mistakenly attacking them while pursuing gangs in northern Nigeria's Katsina state, residents told AFP on Sunday. It dropped a bomb on a cluster of huts on the outskirts of Zakka village in Safana district on Saturday, three residents said. The strike came after bandits attacked…
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Of the 65,073 candidates who sat for the second series of the 2024 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), 34,878, representing 53.6% of the population, passed. According to the examination's officiating body, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), this group obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is facing a fresh wave of internal discord following allegations of forgery linked to its primary election guidelines, a controversy that has further exposed deep-seated divisions within the opposition party. While the PDP leadership has dismissed the accusations as a smear campaign orchestrated by political opponents, insiders suggest the crisis…
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Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State, on the weekend, tasked the new General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, Major General Oluyemi Olatoye, to intensify efforts to end the sit-at-home orders often declared by non-state actors in the Southeast region. Gov. Nwifuru handed down the task when the new General Officer Commanding 82 Division…
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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday, told Governor Ademola Adeleke to stop misleading the public over the Court of Appeal judgment, which purportedly reinstated sacked local government chairmen elected on the platform of the party. The opposition party maintained that the tactic being deployed by the Peoples Democratic Party…
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Angry mob along Airport Road, Lugbe area of the Federal Capital Territory on Saturday allegedly killed two suspected "one-chance" criminals and set their vehicle on fire. According to eyewitnesses, the suspects were intercepted after they allegedly pushed a victim out of their moving vehicle. A commercial driver, who witnessed the incident, hinted that passersby and…
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The Edo Government has confirmed 13 deaths from outbreak of Lassa fever in the state. Dr Stephenson Ojeifo, Director of Public Health at the State Ministry of Health, gave the update during an interview with newsmen on Sunday in Benin. According to him, three cases of Mpox otherwise known as Monkeypox were also recorded, though…
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The Police Command in Ekiti State has detained one Jimoh Abdulraman who brutally assaulted his wife, Mrs Taiwo Akintunde-Abdulraman in Ado-Ekiti in a viral social media video. This is contained in a by the command spokesman, Mr Sunday Abutu, on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti. Abutu said that the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Joseph Eribo, had…