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Shakeup in police as IG deploys 14 AIGs, 26 CPs
The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting and redeployment of 40 senior police officers comprising 14 Assistant Inspectors General of Police and 26 Commissioners of Police to various commands and formations in the country. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Thursday, said the postings and redeployments
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Motorists, commuters decry extortion on Lagos highways
Motorists and commuters in Iyana-Ipaja, Alakuko, and Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State have decried alleged incessant attacks and extortion by some suspected miscreants whenever their vehicles developed faults on the highway. The motorists, who spoke with PUNCH Metro on Tuesday, noted that the miscreants are in the habit of extorting money from them, causing
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2023: Bode George says PDP gave tickets to rich aspirants
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George on Wednesday accused some members of the party’s National Working Committee of being the cause of the party’s failure in the 2023 presidential polls. George while speaking to journalists in Lagos also faulted members of the NWC for handing the party ticket to individuals who had
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FG partners Cross River on food production, security
The Minister of State, Water Resources and Sanitation, Bello Goronyo, has said that the Federal Government will collaborate with the Cross River State Government to improve food production and security. The minister also urged the Cross River Basin Development Authority to work with stakeholders through the expansion of more irrigable lands to boost food production.
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Niger approves Minna stadium renovation
The Niger State Governor, Umaru Bago, has directed the immediate closure and renovation of Bako Kontagora Stadium to meet the specifications of the Nigeria Football Federation. A member of the renovation committee, Malam Danjuma Mansu, disclosed this to newsmen in Minna. He said the closure and renovation would last six weeks, after which they would
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Katsina gov appoints heads of anti-graft, LG service commissions
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has approved the appointment of a new Executive Chairman for the State Anti-Corruption and Local Government Service Commissions. This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen in Katsina on Wednesday by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Malam Ibrahim Kaula. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that
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No plan to withdraw security details from Vips, Force PRO clarifies
The Nigeria Police Force has clarified its position on providing security details to VIPs legally entitled to such services. In a statement issued on Thursday by the Force’s spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, it was emphasized that the Police Force did not intend to remove security details from VIPs with legal and statutory entitlement to such
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Release my supporters, Kogi APC gov candidate tells security agencies
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State, Usman Ododo, has called on security agencies to release chieftains of the party who were arrested in Kogi East on Tuesday. Ododo said the APC chieftains that were arrested were noble people with no questionable character, and had no reason to engage in thuggery
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Former Grammys head accused of rape
The former head of the organisation behind the Grammy Awards on Wednesday was sued by a musician who accused him of drugging and raping her in 2018. The New York Times, which first reported the story, says the state suit filed in Manhattan accuses Neil Portnow — who stepped down as head of the Recording
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Ondo college assures protesting students of NYSC mobilisation
The proprietor of the College of Education, Ero, Ondo State, Mr Oyeleye Fasua, on Thursday, appealed to the protesting students of the institution to be calm, saying the issue of mobilising them for the National Youths Service Corps would be addressed. The students of the college on Monday staged a protest over the failure of
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