ROBBERS RAPE CORPS MEMBER IN BAYELSA
A gang of suspected armed robbers has raped an unnamed member of the National Youth Service Corps in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

PUNCH learnt that the hoodlums, during a house-to-house robbery at Yenizue-Gene, a suburb of Yenagoa, attacked the corps member’s apartment located in the area on Sunday.

The armed robbers, said to be three, reportedly stormed the area around 3 am and fired several gunshots into the air to scare away members of a vigilante group, who used sticks and cutlasses as weapons.

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SOLDIERS RESCUE MAN FROM BEING LYNCHED AFTER KILLING MUM IN ABIA
Soldiers attached to 144 Battalion, 14 Brigade headquarters of the Nigerian Army, Ohafia, in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State, have rescued 25-year-old Agaezichi Ogbonna from being roasted alive at Akpaa Mbato village in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state.

The Guardian gathered that youths of the community descended heavily on Ogbonna when they learnt that he allegedly killed his 52-year-old mother. Sources told newsmen that if not for the timely intervention of the soldiers attached to an army checkpoint at Akpaa Mbato village along Aba-Azumini Highway, Ogbonna who was already beaten to a pulp would have been burnt alive by the mob.
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CONFUSION TRAILS SACK OF 300 STREET SWEEPERS’ SUPERVISORS IN LAGOS
There is confusion regarding the actual employers of the 300 street sweepers’ supervisors that were recently sacked in Lagos State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Environmental Utility firm, Visionscape Sanitation Solutions Ltd (VSS) told NAN on Sunday in Lagos that the supervisors were employed for the Lagos State Government, under the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI).

Mr. Adebola Shabi, the Special Adviser to the Governor on CLI said the government had nothing to do with the news making the rounds that it had sacked the 300 supervisors. Shabi said that the CLI contracted Standard Street Manpower Ltd. (SSML) on the employment of street sweepers.
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LASTMA OFFICIALS ‘DETAIN’ SCHOOL PUPILS OVER DRIVER’S TRAFFIC OFFENCE
Officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have been accused of ‘detaining’ some pupils of Eucharistic Heart of Jesus School, Isolo, after the school bus driver allegedly violated the state traffic law.



PUNCH Metro learnt that the bus driver had penultimate Wednesday gone to pick up pupils of the school at their houses in the Isolo area of the state.

He had reportedly picked up two pupils in the neighbourhood when he was accosted by two LASTMA officials, who accused him of not using a seat belt.

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STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST ALBINOS IN YOUR MIDST – LAGOS GOVT URGE SCHOOLS
The Lagos State government has urged school authorities across the state to stop discriminating against albinos in their midst, especially by discouraging them from being exposed to too much sunlight.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Adebunmi Adekanye gave this advice while speaking at an event to mark this year’s International Albinism Awareness Day in Lagos.

According to Adekanye, albinism is no punishment for any crime neither is it the making of any god or goddess as erroneously believed by some people, rather it is an existence of a substantially lower rate of melanin production which is the pigment responsible for the color of the skin, hair and eyes.
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