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Nigerian Army to conduct Exercise Still Water in, Lagos Ogun

Nigerian Army to conduct Exercise Still Water in, Lagos Ogun

The Nigerian Army, on Monday, said it’s set to conduct an operation codenamed Exercise Stillwater, from 12 October – 23 December 2022 in Lagos and Ogun States. It advised residents of the states not to panic during the period as it would be conducted jointly with sister services, para-military, and other security agencies. Major Olaniyi Osoba, acting Deputy Director of 81 Division Army Public Relations in a statement, said the exercise is aimed at enhancing troops’ level of professionalism and preparedness in curbing security challenges prevalent within areas of responsibility such as kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism, ritual killings, and pipeline…
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EndSARS: Nobody died at Lekki toll gate, blame Atiku, Obi for fabricating lies – MC Oluomo

EndSARS: Nobody died at Lekki toll gate, blame Atiku, Obi for fabricating lies – MC Oluomo

Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has denied the claims that lives were lost during the EndSARS protests that shook the foundations of the country in 2020. Oluomo, who serves as the Chairman of Lagos Parks and Garages Management, made this claim while addressing supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, during their 5-million man march to support the candidacy of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Lagos on Sunday. He said it was rather a political game orchestrated by Tinubu’s rivalries in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively. Recall…
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OGUN: Yahoo boys kidnap, kill 40-year-old man for money ritual

OGUN: Yahoo boys kidnap, kill 40-year-old man for money ritual

Two suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo boys, have confessed to the police how they kidnapped a 40-year-old man and killed him for a money-making ritual Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspects told the police that the victim Abdullahi Azeez, was dismembered after they took his life. The suspects, Friday Abinya Odeh (21) and Poso Idowu (20), Oyeyemi said, were arrested after a report was lodged at the Owode Egba Police Division on June 9, 2022, by the relations of the victim that he left his home at Kobape on June 8, but never…
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Aregbesola wants 30% of Nigerian prisoners released

Aregbesola wants 30% of Nigerian prisoners released

Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola says he will meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 percent of inmates from detention centers across the country. Mr. Aregbesola made this known when he appeared at the Nigerian News Agency (NAN) Forum in Abuja. The minister said the interface was necessary as more than 90 percent of inmates were being held for breaking the laws of various states. Mr. Aregbesola also said that more than 70 percent of the 75,635 inmates currently awaiting trial. The minister said that federal criminals in the system were much less than…
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The Behemoth Called “ABIA” And The Exchange Of Deceits – Opinion

The Behemoth Called “ABIA” And The Exchange Of Deceits – Opinion

What a walking disaster with a strange-sounding melody of frustration, in a state adjudged to be the 12th richest state among the Nigerian federating states! Why would a state blessed and punctuated with revered intellectuals and astute professional juggernauts be basking in the euphoria of exchanges of ignorance? For barely 24 years, no government in Abia State has ever produced a new general framework of economic thought. It is totally inconceivable and it distorts the technology of reasoning how a state rich in both human and material resources is dying by instalment. Our state governance system has so reduced us…
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