The Rivers State chapter of the Association of Local Government Areas of Nigeria (ALGON) has said it is ready to back the call for the impeachment of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The local government chairmen also accused Fubara of embezzling funds intended for the state’s twenty-three LGAs.
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, yesterday, stepped down a motion calling for the suspension of the cybersecurity levy, which has sparked widespread dissatisfaction. During Wednesday’s plenary session, Manu Soro, a lawmaker from Bauchi State, presented the motion, expressing concerns that the levy’s introduction was ill-timed given the prevailing economic condition in Nigeria.
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The Ogun State Police Command said it has arrested a septuagenarian landlord, identified simply as Adesina, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his tenant’s 14-year-old girl (name withheld) at Akegbeyale Street in Ifesowapo Akute, Ifo Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Command spokesman, Omolola Odutola, said the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, where all parties would be grilled.
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The police on Wednesday continued their investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad. This followed the invitation extended to Mohbad’s family and the group of persons mentioned in the ongoing probe of the illegal embalming of the deceased’s body following his death.
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The Nigeria Police has arrested eight suspected cult members at the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti State Command, Sunday Abutu, said, in Ado Ekiti, on Wednesday, that the arrest the previous day followed the intervention of men of the Rapid Response Squad following a distress call.
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The Department of Development Control of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, of the FCT Administration, has demolished shanties illegally built on a road corridor in Wuse Zone 3. The Coordinator of AMMC, Mr Felix Obuah, told journalists after the exercise on Wednesday that the move was part of efforts to clear all shanties in the city.
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. The House of Representatives has called for security presence in schools across the nation to address the worsening security situation in the country. The decision of the House is sequel to the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved at the plenary on Wednesday by Billy Osawaru.
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The Ogun State Police Command said it has arrested a septuagenarian landlord, identified simply as Adesina, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his tenant’s 14-year-old girl (name withheld) at Akegbeyale Street in Ifesowapo Akute, Ifo Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Command spokesman, Omolola Odutola, said the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, where all parties would be grilled.
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The police on Wednesday continued their investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad. This followed the invitation extended to Mohbad’s family and the group of persons mentioned in the ongoing probe of the illegal embalming of the deceased’s body following his death.
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The Nigeria Police has arrested eight suspected cult members at the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti State Command, Sunday Abutu, said, in Ado Ekiti, on Wednesday, that the arrest the previous day followed the intervention of men of the Rapid Response Squad following a distress call.
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The Department of Development Control of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, of the FCT Administration, has demolished shanties illegally built on a road corridor in Wuse Zone 3. The Coordinator of AMMC, Mr Felix Obuah, told journalists after the exercise on Wednesday that the move was part of efforts to clear all shanties in the city.
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. The House of Representatives has called for security presence in schools across the nation to address the worsening security situation in the country. The decision of the House is sequel to the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved at the plenary on Wednesday by Billy Osawaru.
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The bandits, who abducted over 30 persons recently in Maradun Local Government Area, Zamfara State, the country home of the Minister of State, Defence, Hon. Bello Mohammed Matawalle, have demanded the sum of N500 million as ransom.
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Elder Statesman and Dean of Borno Elders Forum, Prof. Khalifa Dikwa, had said that President Bola Tinubu’s administration was blackmailed into approving the cybersecurity levy policy initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
Dikwa made this statement in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday, saying: “These forces can’t be seen and rely on intimidation to get their bidding done while saying the Tinubu administration is blackmailed into making these policies.
“It is the wrong time to impose the cybersecurity levy. I’m not surprised by the directive because Nigeria is seemingly controlled remotely by external forces.”
The House of Representatives has stepped down a motion seeking the suspension of the cybersecurity levy which has brought about negative reactions from Nigerians
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