KIDNAP SAGA: MELAYE RETURNS, SAYS HE SPENT 11 HOURS IN THE WILDERNESS
Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi east, says he has regained his freedom after spending 11 hours in the “wilderness”.

Melaye’s brother had raised an alarm on Thursday that the senator had been kidnapped.

Ben Murray-Bruce, a senator from Bayelsa, had quoted him (the brother) as saying Melaye was bundled into a Toyota Sienna while he was travelling to Kogi for his court appearance.
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BREAKING: IMO LOCAL GOVERNMENT APC CHAIRMAN ASSASSINATED
The chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ideato North Local Government of Imo state, Sunny Ejiagwu, has been murdered by suspected assassins in the early hours of today, Friday, July 27th.

Confirming the incident, the state commissioner of police, Dasuki Galandanchi, said Ejiagwu was murdered along the Akokwa road in Ideato North local government area and his body has been deposited at a nearby mortuary.

“The APC chairman in Ideato North has been murdered. I was at the scene of the crime and only came back. His corpse has been evacuated to a mortuary.
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JOHN ABEBE, FATHER OF SOUNDCITY VJ MOET ARRAIGNED FOR FORGERY, REMANDED IN IKOYI PRISON
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zonal Office, on Thursday, July 26, 2018, arraigned John Warimeme Abebe who is Obasanjo’s in-law and father of Soundcity VJ, Moet Abebe, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a four-count charge bordering on forgery, fabricating evidence, using fabricated evidence and attempt to pervert the course of justice.

One of the count reads: “That you, Dr. John Warimeme Abebe, on or about the 22nd day of June, 2010 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, knowingly forged BP Exploration Nigeria Limited’s letter dated 30th November, 1995 to Inducon (Nigeria) Limited by inserting in page 2 of the said letter the following words: “Also note that the ‘Buy-Out Option’ only applies to the pre-production stage of the NPIA. The $4m buy-out is thus irrelevant from production of oil in any of our fields” and purported same to have been issued by BP Exploration Nigeria Limited and committed an offence contrary to Section 467 of the Criminal Code Cap C17, Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2003.”
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IMRAN KHAN CLAIMS VICTORY IN PAKISTAN ELECTIONS
Pakistan cricket legend turned opposition stalwart Imran Khan claimed victory Thursday in the country’s tense elections, following accusations of poll rigging by rival parties.

“We were successful and we were given a mandate,” Khan said during a live broadcast, adding there was “no politician victimisation” in the contest.

Results were still being tallied Thursday, hours after Khan’s supporters took to the streets to celebrate winning an election that opponents have said the powerful military rigged in his favour.
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WHITE HOUSE UNDER FIRE FOR BARRING CNN REPORTER FROM EVENT
The White House was under fire Wednesday for barring a CNN reporter from attending an event with the president, allegedly for having asked questions that officials objected to.

Reporter Kaitlan Collins was quoted by CNN as saying that White House communications officials told her she could not attend an event with US President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker because she had asked “inappropriate” questions earlier in the day.

“We strongly condemn the White House’s misguided and inappropriate decision today to bar one of our members from an open press event after she asked questions they did not like,” the White House Correspondents’ Association said in a statement.
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