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Unknown gunmen have ambushed the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Zone-12 Bauchi, Audu Madaki, between Barde and Jagindi area of Kaduna State on his way to Abuja, and killed his orderly. AIG Madaki left Bauchi on his way to Abuja when the terrorists ambushed and attacked him. Sources said that AIGs were summoned to…
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• Beijing plans military ops By Agency Report United House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan, raising tensions between the U.S. and China over the island that China claims as its own. The whole world was hooked onto a flight tracking site as U.S. plane SPAR19 departed for Taipei from Malaysia yesterday evening. When…
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By AFP The United States blacklisted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s purported girlfriend and the tycoon owner of the second-largest estate in London Tuesday in the latest round of sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. Also hit with US business bans were several other oligarchs believed to be close to Putin, four officials Russia has named…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has extended the prolonged industrial action embarked upon over five months ago by another four weeks. Recall that the striking lecturers shut down public universities on February 14, 2022, following the inability of the Federal Government to implement a Memorandum of Action (MoA) entered by the two parties…
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.. flog them well in the bush Apopular Islamic preacher based in Sokoto State, Bello Yabo, has prayed that terrorists who threatened to kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, should be successful in their mission. Yabo, who said…
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Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Sunday, hosted a crucial meeting of some governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. They were mostly the governors who coordinated his presidential campaign during the PDP national convention. The meeting was held behind closed-doors at the Rivers State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)….
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The Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has cautioned the Federal Government against churning out policies that aggravate inflation and harm the populace. ABCON, which gave the warning in its Second Quarter Economic Review for the year, drew attention to the severe impact of the sharp rise in commodity prices triggered by…
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A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday, leading US officials to chide Beijing for not sharing information about the potentially hazardous object’s descent. US Space Command “can confirm the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Long March 5B (CZ-5B) re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approx 10:45 am MDT on 7/30,”…
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In another of the incessant onslaughts, gunmen on Thursday evening reportedly engaged the military in a gun duel at a checkpoint in Zuma Rock Madalla, along the Kaduna-Abuja highway. Reports reaching Rextun City Updates have indicated that the attack began at about 8pm and no casualties have been reported at the time of filing this…
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Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has declared Friday (July 29) work-free for civil servants in the state to enable them register to vote in the next general election. The holiday comes as the INEC closes the continuous voter registration exercise on July 31. “His Excellency urges the people of Kwara State, especially the civil servants,…
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