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Insecurity: Nigerians should be allowed to carry weapons – Shehu Sani
A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, Thursday, said with Nigeria’s worsening security situation, Nigerians should be allowed to officially carry weapons in defending themselves. The PUNCH had reported how terrorists on Monday night bombed the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks and attacked a train filled with passengers. Subsequently, the Nigerian Railway Corporation on Tuesday announced the suspension…
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Liverpool, Man Utd to clash in Bangkok as Premier League clubs resume tours
Liverpool and Manchester United will meet in a high-profile friendly in Bangkok in July, the clubs said on Thursday, as Premier League teams resume lucrative pre-season tours which stopped when COVID-19 hit. After the July 12 clash in the Thai capital, Cristiano Ronaldo and his United team-mates will fly to Australia for two more friendlies,…
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Senate threatens Akpabio, NDDC boss arrest over N2.2bn contractors’ fees
THE Senate’s Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has summoned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the Sole Administrator of Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr Effiong Akwa, over non-payment of N2.2bn to contractors. The committee said it was acting on petitions filed by Akom Survey Services Limited over alleged refusal…
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Bruce Willis: What to know about aphasia
The news that film star Bruce Willis has retired from acting due to aphasia has shone a spotlight on the poorly understood communication disorder. Here’s what you should know. – What is aphasia? – “Aphasia just means that someone has a problem with language that they weren’t born with,” Hugo Botha, a neurologist at Mayo…
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Osinbajo, Afe Babalola seek legal education curriculum overhaul
Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and founder of Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola, have canvassed an overhaul of the curriculum for legal education to reflect contemporary reality. The legal giants and senior advocates identified an obsolete curriculum as one of the biggest challenges confronting the development of legal education in Nigeria. Osinbajo and Babalola…
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Indigenes seek Olubadan’s cooperation for Ibadan devt
The Board of Trustees of the apex socio-cultural organisation of Ibadanland, the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, on Wednesday asked the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, to take the council into confidence in any matter that concerns the ancient metropolis. According to a statement from the Olubdan Palace, the call was made at the…
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Hanifa: Kano court fixes April 12, 14 for continuation of hearing
A High court, sitting in Kano on Wednesday, fixed April 12 and 14 for the continuation of hearing in the ongoing trial of a school proprietor, Abdulmalik Tanko, for the alleged murder of a five-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar. At the resumed sitting for continuation of hearing, the prosecution counsel, Deputy Director Public Prosecution Kano State,…
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Police rescue app gets over 10,000 fake alerts in four days
The Nigeria Police ‘Rescue Me App’ has received over 10,000 fake emergency alerts in four days. This is according to the Acting Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a tweet via his Twitter handle on Wednesday. The Rescue Me App was launched by the police to help citizens in distress to report crimes…
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Kaduna attack: Trains are not the progress Nigeria needed
On Monday night, terrorists attacked a Kaduna-bound passenger train that left from Abuja. They ambushed the train by detonating some explosives laid on the railway tracks. The violent implosion that followed not only stopped the train in its tracks but also imploded the myth of the progress Nigeria has made under the present regime. So…
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PFN, CDHR, lawyers differ over prison’s beauty pageant
THE Executive Director, Prison Fellowship Nigeria, Mr Benson Iwuagwu, has said there is no ground for the anger that greeted the recent beauty pageant held in Kirikiri Maximum Custodial Centre from the legal perspective. Iwuagwu, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, described the reaction of many Nigerians to the pageant as a…
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