Multi medallist at the 20th National Sports Festival, Edo 2020, Ese Ukpeseraye is expecting a fantastic reward from the Delta state government for doing the state proud. She won gold in 80km road race, 1000 m race, 500m and individual Time trials and two silver medals in Team Time Trial. After winning four gold, and two silver medals, Ukpeseraye said …
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The Bauchi State Command of the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, has arrested one of its personnel for smuggling a phone into the Bauchi Custodial Centre. The development had caused violent unrest at the facility as inmates who were to benefit from the smuggling engaged other correctional officers for bursting the deal. Command Public Relations Officer, DSC Adam Abubakar Jibrin disclosed …
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The announcement comes two days after President Muhammadu Buhari announced the appointment of Mr Alkali as the new IGP. The Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali, has announced his first set of appointments including the reappointment of Frank Mba as the force spokesperson. The appointments were announced in a statement signed by Mr Mba. The announcement comes two days …
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A Kaduna High Court has restrained the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS) from burying a late inmate, Wisdom Felix. The restraining order was issued by Bilkisu Mohammed following an ex-parte motion filed by a human rights organisation, Incorporated Trustees of Global Rights, on behalf of Mr Felix’ family. The organisation, popularly known as House of Justice, had asked the court to restrain from …
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Mr Osinbajo recalls how “The Flagship” spoke truth to power at launch of book on The Guardian. Even as it remains a collective struggle to build a nation with the bricks of mutuality, plurality and tolerance, the media, as gatekeepers in the fourth estate, must demonstrate a greater awareness of the society, while upholding the principles of balance, objectivity and …
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There was pandemonium at the Bauchi Custodial Centre on Friday following an attempted jailbreak, The PUNCH has learnt. The quick intervention of Armed Personnel of the Service attached to the Centre immediately averted the incident. Two personnel of the correctional service sustaining varying degrees of injuries. The injured are said to be presently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital within the Bauchi …
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“It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.” Prince Philip Mountbatten, the husband of the Queen of England, is dead, the Royal Family said in a statement Friday. He was 99. His death ultimately ends his 73-year marriage to the Queen, to whom he …
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The World Bank will provide 50 countries with finance to buy COVID-19 vaccines by mid-2021, Mr David Malpass, World Bank Group President has said. Malpass made this known on Wednesday in Washington D. C. during a news conference at the ongoing 2021 Spring Meetings which began on Monday, according to the News Agency of Nigeria report. The president said that …
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Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), says it will meet with the Federal and Kaduna State Governments on the plight of students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization who have been in captivity since March 11. This is part of the forum’s resolution at the end of its National Executive Council meeting (NEC) on Thursday in Kaduna. The ACF National Publicity, Mr …
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Edo State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Esther Edigin and the state’s Solicitor – General, Oluwole Iyamu, among other members of the Edo State Judiciary on Thursday, paid last tributes to Dr. Irene Ododo Osula-Odaro, a former Edo Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, who passed away at the age of 70. Edigin, while delivering her speech at the …
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