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The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar, has assured the 2022 Batch ‘B’ Stream 11 corps members in Sokoto State that the Shari’a Law is not binding on non-Muslims in the state. The Sultan gave the assurance on Thursday in his palace when the NYSC management team in the state led by the state coordinator and some selected corps members …

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Thursday unveiled the state’s security outfit known as Community Volunteer Guards. He pledged that his administration would legally procure AK-47, AK-49 and other sophisticated weapons for the group. Ortom said that 500 personnel drawn from the 23 local government areas of the state were recruited in the first batch. According to report by PUNCH, …

About two months after the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, aggrieved Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday met behind closed doors in Abuja. Although the details of the meeting were still sketchy as of the time of this report, sources in the PDP said the meeting between Atiku and …

Akwa Ibom State High Court, sitting in Uyo, the state capital, has sentenced a 21-year-old Uduak Akpan to death by hanging for the murder of Akwa Ibom job seeker, Iniubong Umoren. The court also found the accused guilty of rape and accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment for having carnal knowledge of the deceased whom he lured to his father’s …

Edo State Government has commenced the recruitment of professionals into the civil service in line with the government’s plans to strengthen the civil service and reposition it for effective service delivery. Chairman, Edo State Civil Service Commission, Princess Ekiuwa Inneh, in a statement, urged eligible persons to apply for the various vacancies into the state’s civil service, reassuring that the …

*VP receives report of National Defence College Course 30 participants Nigeria’s current security challenges and emerging threats require the country’s military and other relevant stakeholders to be several steps ahead of perpetrators while also stepping up local production of armaments. This was one of the highlights of the response of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, after receiving a presentation on …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – Edo State Police Command has said that it awaits autopsy results to determine the actual cause of death in the two suspicious suicides reports recorded in Benin City, last July. The alleged suicide cases included that of Mr. Efene Eric Oyakhilomen, 45 and Cynthia Agho, 27, reported to the police on July 16 …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – A 65-year-old mother has been hacked to death and buried in an open shallow grave at her own farm in Benin City. The victim, Felicia Atigi was said to have gone to her farm in company of two boys as she did not return home, thereafter. It was learnt that her son, one …

One of the released hostages of Kaduna-Abuja train attack, Professor Mustapha Umar Imam has said that the terrorists that abducted them on March 28 are organised and have spies all over the country. Imam, one of the five freed victims spoke in a video broadcast by Arise TV on Wednesday morning, adding that the bandits deliberated and planned the attacks …

A middle-aged-man, Sunday Samuel, has accused the Ondo State Trauma and Surgical Centre, Ondo Town, of negligence after his wife died during a surgical operation at the facility. The deceased, Fola, was reportedly diagnosed with breast cancer. The mother of four was thereafter placed on medication for about a month in the hospital ward before she was taken to the …