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•Tambuwal relaxes Sokoto curfew •How police fought to save Deborah’s life— CP Okunlola •I was a devout Muslim, Quran frowns on killing —Tunde Bakare No fewer than 34 lawyers were on the defence team of the two suspects allegedly inviolved in the lynching of 200-Level students of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Deborah Sanuel, as operatives of the Nigeria Police …

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described as spurious an allegation by a former National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, that he once asked him to rig an election in his favour. “The allegation, which was made on a national television, is not only false, …

Kano State Police Command has said this morning’s explosion along Aba Road by Court Road in the Sabon Gari area of Kano, was caused by a gas cylinder and not bomb. The Command issued a statement, confirming the explosion but stated that gas and not bomb, caused the explosion that brought down a school building. Vanguard had reported the explosion, …

The Nigeria Police Force, Sokoto State Command, have declared fleeing suspects captured in viral video of the killing and subsequent setting on fire of Deborah Samuel wanted for culpable homicide. The PUNCH reports that the deceased who was, until her death, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was accused of blasphemy after which some of her classmates …

A bomb explosion, on Tuesday morning, rocked Sabon Gari, Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State. The explosion went off at a school in Aba Road, leaving parents running helter-skelter to pick their children. An eyewitness account in a video going viral said the blast was by a suicide bomber. Information were still sketchy as at the time of filling …

Nigeria’s Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of Mr Ibrahim Magu and seven other Commissioners of Police (CPs) to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG). Ibrahim Magu is the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who was removed from office as the nation’s anti-corruption Tsar, following allegation of financial improprieties leveled …

Edo State Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) has received the commendation of the federal government for its durable and quality infrastructural projects in the state. Coordinator, Edo NEWMAP, Dr. Tom Obaseki (right), with other officials of the State Project Management Unit (SPMU), during a meeting with the federal government’s Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) Auditors, in Benin …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration is revolutionizing the healthcare sector, pursuing a holistic decentralization of the system and upgrading primary healthcare centres, equipping them with world-class equipment and manpower to guarantee the delivery of efficient, affordable and quality healthcare services to Edo people. Edo State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Obehi Akoria; wife of Edo State …

Governor of Bauchi State and presidential aspirant in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bala Mohammed, said President Muhammadu Buhari has failed as a president because he surrounds himself with “liars and sycophants” Mr Mohammed, who was in Katsina Sunday evening to meet with PDP delegates ahead of the party’s presidential primary elections, said Mr Buhari has failed to provide good leadership to …

• Govt has not contacted us, I went to fetch the corpse myself, father laments The Christian Association of Nigeria on Sunday said it would explore all avenues to get justice for Deborah Samuel, a 200 level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, who was lynched last week for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. In a chat with The PUNCH on …