Crime

Olabode Adaramola The Niger State branch of the Nigerian  Medical Association (NMA)  has decried the poor level of immunization coverage in the state. The state chairman of the association, Dr Mustapha Yahaya, stated this on Friday when he led members of the association on a courtesy call on the leadership of the  State House of Assembly, in Minna. Dr. Yahaya, …

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Olabode Adaramola The Niger state Ministry of Education, says it had suspended a Vice Principal, Malam Mohammed Mohammed, who had sexually violated  and impregnated a female student, Miss Faith Danjuma,  of his school, Government Day Secondary School, Tunga Minna. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Alhaji Yahaya Garba disclosed this to newsmen in Minna on Wednesday in an interaction with …

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Olabode Adaramola Father  of a 16-year-old female student of Government Day Secondary School (GDSS), Tunga Minna (Gidan-kwano), impregnated by her Vice Principal, Malam Mohammed Mohammed, has  cried out for justice to secure the future of his daughter who is  said to have neen abandoned by the man who impregnated her. The randy Vice Principal, Malam Mohammed Mohammed had  in March …

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  Chief Magistrate Chinyere  Elewe Nwecheonwu of Chief Magistrate Court Zone 6, Abuja on Monday adjourned till January 25, 2018, further hearing on the matter between the Federal Government and the BGL Group and its officials, this is even as Managing Director of the Company, Albert Okumagba was again absent in court.   The adjournment became necessary after counsel to Deputy …

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    Two herdsmen suspected to be kidnapers and cattle rustlers have been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command in connection with the kidnap and killing of another herdsman. Hassan Amodu and Abubakar Abdullah kidnapped Taye Amodu on the 23rd of October 2017 at Obada Oko area of Abeokuta and also made away with eight cows belonging to …

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The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected human trafficker while trying to transport two teenage girls from Lagos to Abidjan in Ivory Coast allegedly for commercial sex work. The suspect, Martha Edea, 30, a mother of two from Ogoja in Cross River State, was nabbed in Lagos after travelling with the …

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The Nigeria Customs Service will soon adopt a new initiative, Authorised Economic Operator programme (AEO) to plug the loopholes exploited by unscrupulous people engaged in the importation of light weapons and other prohibited products. The AEO is a programme introduced by the World Customs Organisation in conjunction with National Customs Administration to facilitate safe and secure trade across international borders. …

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The Nigerian Communications Commission NCC, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Central Bank of Nigeria to enable digital mobile operators incorporate Special Purpose Vehicles to offer mobile money services. The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umaru Danbatta, stated this while hosting the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Financial Inclusion for Development, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, …

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...As Commission Put Strigent Measure in Place To Check Further Abuse …Encourages Youth To Imbibe Saving Culture The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has disclosed that listed companies have been found to fake operating positions to get regulatory approval to delist from the equities market. The Commission said to further checkmate such scenario from playing-up again due to its zero …

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The Nigerian Customs on Monday has seized 6,206 bags of foreign parboiled rice in Lagos worth over N105,000,000 in cash. Deputy Comptroller, Nigerian Customs, Mr. Dauda Ashigye and Comptroller Mohammed U. Garba briefed the Nigerian press on the seized bags of rice in Lagos. Smugglers have continued to make series of attempts to flood Nigeria with goods which are known …

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