Tag: politics
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UniPort student gets death sentence for murder of girlfriend
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced a 400-level Petrochemical Engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt, Damian Okoligwe, to death by hanging for the murder of his girlfriend, Justina Otuene. Justina was a 300-level Biochemistry student at the same institution. Okoligwe was found guilty of killing her in October…
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Trump says he wants to ‘permanently pause’ migration to the US from poorer countries
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status, AP reports. He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE…
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Guinea-Bissau military escorts ex-Nigeria President Jonathan out of country
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been escorted out of Guinea-Bissau by military personnel as confusion persists following the latest coup attempt in the country. Jonathan was in the West African country as part of a joint election observer mission deployed by the African Union (AU), and ECOWAS. A military coup broke out on Wednesday…
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Tinubu declares nationwide security emergency, orders army, police to recruit more personnel
President Bola Tinubu has declared a nationwide security emergency and ordered additional recruitment into the Armed Forces. Tinubu made the declaration on Wednesday in a statement he signed and shared on various platforms including his official handle on X (Twitter). He said by the declaration, the police and the army had been authorized to recruit…
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Police VIP withdrawal is drama, not strategy, ADC tells Tinubu
●Says Nigeria’s security challenge beyond police The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has dismissed President Bola Tinubu’s withdrawal of police officers from VIPs as political grandstanding which will not yield any meaningful results in combating the crisis of insecurity in the country. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party criticised that…
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Terrorists abduct women, children in new attack in Kwara
Reports state that a fresh terror attack has hit Isapa, a settlement near Eruku in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State. Details from the zone indicate that about 11 residents were seized by the bandits. This has happened less than a day after worshippers abducted from a church service in Eruku regained their…
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Life jail for Kanu: South-East leaders seek political solution
In a dramatic proceeding that lasted for over seven hours, Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment following his conviction on all seven counts of terrorism charges preferred against him by the Federal Government. But in a…
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Lagos’ Akanbi, Ayedun, Olaribigbe Shine in Nigeria’s 2025 World Scrabble Championship success
Nigeria rose to the peak of the world as the team was crowned the Best Scrabble-playing country among 27 countries in Accra, Ghana. The country which last won the title in India 2019, did ignited the playing hall of The Palm by Eagles Hotel with their blistering word-power play and prowess on the number-and-word game.…
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Attack on PDP Headquarters, assault on democracy – ADC
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has strongly condemned what it describes as a “disturbing and dangerous assault on democracy” following the violent attack on the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja by armed men under the command of senior officials of the ruling party, warning that the country’s democracy is under…
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World Scrabble: Team Nigeria return home triumphantly
Team Nigeria touched down in Lagos on Monday, carrying not just luggage, but a statement, exciting declaration that the new kings of world scrabble wear green and white. Twenty players. Seven officials. One united fire. And together, they dethroned the United States in the team event in Accra to emerge World Scrabble Champions, outclassing 27…
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