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•Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, today, declared that the federal government will not reverse its decision on fuel subsidy, saying bringing back subsidy would jeopardise the future of Nigerian children. Speaking at the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign rally in Dutse, Jigawa State, Tinubu said claims that the subsidy would be rest...
A businessman, Jonathan Nwanze, has challenged the Nigerian Army’s statutory authority to investigate civilians for alleged financial crimes, including money laundering and terrorism financing. He is seeking N120 million in damages in a fundamental rights suit over his alleged unlawful arrest, detention and invasion of his residence, reports T...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has directed its Committee on Aviation to convene an urgent stakeholders’ meeting with relevant aviation authorities over prolonged aircraft holding in the air during Very Important Persons (VIPs) movements and other security-related operations at Nigerian airports. The Senate mandated the committee, chaired by Sena...
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The Police Command in Ondo State says it has arrested a man, Amos Paul, of Unaun, Upenme in Owo Local Government Area, for allegedly brutalising his 10-year-old daughter. DSP Abayomi Jimoh, the spokesperson for the Command, made this known in a statement today in Akure. The Command’s spokesperson said that the suspect allegedly used a heated l...
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•NLC The Nigeria Labour Congress has directed workers in Osun State to embark on a three-day sympathy strike beginning at midnight yesterday to press for the release of statutory allocations due to local government areas in the state. In a statement signed by the Osun NLC Chairman and Secretary, Christopher Arapasopo and Victor Amusan, respect...
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•Health care workers Africa’s latest Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the continent’s top health agency. In mid-May, the DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak, a deadly disease transmitted through contact with bodily fluids that causes haemorrhagic feve...
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•Ebola outbreak A UK medic who tested positive for Ebola while working on the outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been flown to London for treatment, the government said yesterday. The unnamed British citizen “has returned to the UK for specialist treatment after testing positive for the disease”, the government sai...
