BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Edo, Nigeria – Suspected ‘Yahoo’ boy, reported to have killed his girlfriend in his Benin City apartment has narrated that the content of the chat messages he found in her phone provoked him to stab her to death with a kitchen knife. The suspect, Victor Ochonogor Ifakachukwu, 25, also said aside the chat messages, he …
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BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Edo, Nigeria – Asharami Energy, a Sahara Group Upstream and Gas company has renovated Ologbo police station to strengthen Community policing in and around Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo State. The landmark gesture is in fulfillment of the company’s social responsibility to its host communities which are within the jurisdiction of Ologbo police station. …
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The turbulent continent of Africa has experienced seven coups since August 2020, before army officers in the West African country said Wednesday they had deposed President Ali Bongo in Gabon. A timeline: – 2023: Niger –On July 26, 2023, members of the presidential guard overthrow Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum, elected in 2021. General Abdourahamane Tiani, head of the presidential guard …
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Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi, the man that designed Nigeria’s flag, is dead. He died in the early hours of Tuesday after a brief illness. One of his children announced his death on Facebook. He wrote: “Life is indeed transient; I can say boldly that you lived a life with a landmark. “Continue to rest, my father! Pa Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi (O.F.R.): …
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The crisis rocking the leadership of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) took a turn for the worse yesterday, with the suspension and counter-expulsion of senior members of the party. In the latest crisis, a faction of NNPP loyal to Founder of the party and Chairman of its Board of Trustees (BoT), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, delivered the first blow by announcing …
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The Commonwealth on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the military coup in Gabon. A group of senior Gabonese military officers appeared on national television in the early hours of Wednesday and said they had taken power after the state election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term. The signs of a coup in Gabon come just weeks …
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The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has affirmed the N50 million damages that was awarded against Senator Elisha Abbo for assaulting a lady, Ms Osimibibra Warmate, in a sex toy shop in Abuja. A High Court of Federal Capital Territory had ordered the lawmaker who represented Adamawa North, to pay damages over the incident that occurred in 2019. …
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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, in his reaction to the coup in Gabon, has predicted that there would be more military takeovers in French-speaking West and Central African countries in the near future. The PUNCH reports that some army officers Wednesday toppled the democratic government of President Ali Bongo, who has been in power since 2009. Bongo was announced the winner of the …
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The Ambrose Alli University (AAU) Ekpoma in Edo State chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday denied allegations that they were graduating students who were based outside Nigeria even as it took a swipe on the Governor Godwin Obaseki administration which it said was running the university against standard ways of running a university. Addressing a …
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President Bola Tinubu has said a comprehensive consensus against the spread of “contagious autocracy” across Africa is the next step forward with respect to how the power in Gabon will play out. The Nigerian leader noted that he is committed to working with other heads of state to defend democracy on the continent. President Tinubu stated this in his first …
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