“I have no direct contact with applicants” — PCO
By Becky Adi
Allegations of fraud, favouratism and passport booklet hoarding are currently rocking Kogi State office of the Nigerian Immigration Service office investigation by Daybreak newspaper has revealed At the Centre of the fraud allegation is one Friday Agada, the Passport Control Officer, PCO.

Multiple sources who spoke to Daybreak newspaper alleges that the passport officer was extorting huge sums of money from applicants before they can obtain passport, even when they have paid the official fees.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2021/05/05/fraud-allegation-rocks-nis-kogi-passport-office/

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Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has insisted that the man inside Aso Rock Villa, Nigeria’s seat of power, is the “Buhari Nigerians voted for in 2015 and 2019, and not one Jubril from Sudan.” Adesina who wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday, Decemer 17, while celebrating Buhari’s 78th birthday, faulted the claim by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who has continued to tell Nigerians that the man in Aso Rock is a clone.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/17/the-man-inside-aso-rock-villa-nigerias-seat-of-power-is-buhari-femi-adesina/

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Nigeria ordered telecommunications companies, including MTN Group Ltd. and Airtel Africa Plc, to suspend the sale of SIM cards while authorities check their compliance with registration guidelines. It didn’t say how long the review would take.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/10/nigeria-ordered-telecommunications-companies-including-mtn-airtel-to-suspend-the-sale-of-sim-cards/

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A hunter in the Czech Republic was charged by a deer that snagged the man’s gun on its antlers and fled into the woods with the weapon, police said.


Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/10/deer-steals-hunters-gun-flees-into-woods/

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A meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) fixed to hold today (Wednesday) over the ASUU strike has been postponed.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/09/fg-postpones-meeting-with-ASUU-over-lingering-strike/

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The Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, yesterday advised the officers of the Ebonyi State Police Command to use their firearms whenever their lives are in danger.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/09/use-your-firearms-whenever-your-lives-are-in-danger-ig-tell-policemen/

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The National Population Commission says Nigeria’s population is now estimated at 206 million. This comes exactly two years after the NPC estimated the country’s population at 198 million.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/08/nigerias-population-now-206-million-npc-claims/

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Professor Mahmood Yakubu has been sworn in for a second term as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and believes elections in the country are getting better.

Read more at: https://daybreak.ng/2020/12/09/breaking-yakubu-sworn-in-as-inec-chairman/