News Roundup

A gang of senior secondary school pupils in Ogun State have beaten a teacher, Kolawole Shonuga, for stopping one of them from cheating during an examination in their school. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Tuesday at Isanbi Comprehensive High School, Ilisan-Remo, in Ikenne Local Government Area of the State.

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Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, on Sunday, defended President Bola Tinubu, saying those who voted him as president are aware he is not a magician. Oshiomhole in a TV interview noted that there was no time Tinubu pledged to fix the country’s numerous problems in 24 hours during his presidential campaign.

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 Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Sunday departed Abuja to represent President Bola Tinubu at two major international Summits in Rome, Italy and St Petersburg, Russia. At the Rome event, Shettima will join other global leaders for the first Stocktaking Moment (STM) Summit themed “Transforming Food Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity,”

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The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has shifted the date to effect new tariff toll fare at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) from July 17 to Aug. 1. In a statement signed by the FAAN Management on Sunday in Abuja, the postponement was to make the airport users enjoy more of the current charges.

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The Court of Appeal in Lagos has voided a Federal High Court judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to electronically upload results of the governorship and State of Assembly elections from the polling units directly to the Results Viewing Portal (IReV). A three-man panel of the court held that the law gave INEC “very wide discretionary powers” to determine how it transmits or transfers election results.

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 Reeling from the pain and difficulty of plying the dilapidated Sapele Road in Benin, some residents on Sunday circulated a video of Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, stranded at the RCC Junction after a downpour that flooded the road and made it impassable. The video had a background voice taunting the Governor in pidgin English “e don de red…everybody don de collect am now.”

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