{"id":341,"date":"2016-03-18T22:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T21:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsscreenng.wordpress.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2016-03-18T22:04:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T21:04:45","slug":"today-in-nigeria-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/today-in-nigeria-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today in Nigeria
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Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatal Owoseni on Friday disclosed\u00a0that 11 trans-border armed robbers have been killed while ammunition\u00a0and other items were also recovered from them.<\/p>\n

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the\u00a0Economic and Financial Crimes Commission\u00a0(EFCC), gave details of how Senate\u00a0President, Bukola Saraki allegedly looted
\nKwara State while he served as the state\u2019s\u00a0governor between 2003 and 2011.<\/p>\n

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1\u00a0Division Nigeria Army, Major General Adeniyi\u00a0Oyebade, disclosed that in their\u00a0operations focusing on an anti-cattle rustling\u00a0and armed banditry within the north west zone, no fewer\u00a0than 35 armed bandits have been killed while\u00a038 of them have been arrested and handed\u00a0over to the police in the various states of their arrest.<\/p>

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Ahead of the River State re-run elections, the topmost contending\u00a0parties, the\u00a0 PDP and APC in the state,
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Another soldier was reportedly killed in an ambush in River State barely 24 hours to the re-run election.<\/p>\n

The remains of the late Minister of State (Labour), Mr. James Ocholi SAN, his wife and son were laid to rest in his home Dekina Local Government of Kogi State amidst tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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