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August, 2018

• 17 August

  Detained Premium Times Reporter Released On Bail

  

  A magistrates’ court in Abuja has granted bail to Samuel Ogundipe, a Premium Times reporter who was arrested on Tuesday. Abdulwahab Mohammed, the magistrate, granted the bail in N500,000 and a surety who must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction. This comes after activists and organisations, within and outside the ...

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• 17 August

  Police Arrests Rapists who Target Infants in Katsina

  

  The police in Katsina State has arrested men who were involved in four cases of rape of infants between four to nine years. Those arrested were among various shades of suspected criminals paraded at the police headquarters in Katsina on Wednesday. According to the state’s police spokesman, SP Isah Gambo, ...

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• 17 August

  Suspected Pipeline Vandal Escapes from Court after Arraignment

  

  Kingsley Ibeto, a suspected pipeline vandal,who was arraigned before a Federal High Court, Lagos on two counts charge bordering on unlawful dealing in petroleum product played a fast game on the court on Wednesday as he disappeared into after his plea was taken on the charges. Ibeto was charged before the ...

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• 17 August

  Senate Re-invites INEC Chairman Over Election Budget

  

  The National Assembly Joint Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again invited the Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to give further clarifications on the 2019 General Elections Budget. The Chairman of the Senate committee on INEC, Sen. Suleiman Nazif, made this known to newsmen today after ...

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• 17 August

  FG Says No Ransom Paid for Dapchi Girl

  

  The Federal Government today insisted that it did not pay any ransom to secure the release of the Dapchi girls. The school girls were abducted by Boko Haram in February and released in March after a swap deal. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement, in ...

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• 16 August

  Fayose’s Rush Recruitment In Bad Faith, Says Fayemi

  

  The last minute move by the outgoing administration of Governor Ayodele Fayose to recruit 600 teachers to the Teaching Service Commission, 400 staff to the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and 1000 to the Ministry of Establishment is a deliberate effort to put obstacles in the way of the ...

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