The Federal Government has urged the Community Court of the Economic Community of West African States sitting in Abuja to dismiss a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

It stated that Kanu having been granted bail and allegedly escaped from his ongoing trial before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the judgment of the ECOWAS Court on the suit would serve no purpose.

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Operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad, Abeokuta, Ogun State, have arrested a three-man syndicate for allegedly robbing passengers in the Itori area of the state, according to a report by Punch.

The suspects identified as Seun Ademosu, Segun Akinde and Kayode Sokunbi, usually drove around the community, looking for their victims.

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Members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the House of Representatives have explained why they suspended their planned protest against President Muhammadu Buhari.

The party chieftains said they decided to shelve the planned protest because of the respect they have for the office of the president and speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.

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Mr Yusuf Olaniyonu, a Special Adviser to the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki has said that the senator had violated no law as it regards to assets declaration in Nigeria.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, Olaniyonu, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, described as untrue allegations linking one of Saraki’s companies to the recent leaks by Paradise Papers.

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According to a report by The Punch, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday traced N860m to the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada; and a former acting governor of Taraba State, Sani Danladi.

While N500m was traced to Wada, N450m was traced to Danladi.

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A devoted mum who struggled to sleep at night accidentally killed herself with a lethal cocktail of prescription tablets, an inquest heard.

According to Sun UK, the woman identified as Katrina Glynn, 34, was found dead on her couch at her Bolton home in August, after she suffered from bouts of anxiety and sleeplessness, as her partner worked away.

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Deepti Regmi, an 11-year-old girl from Nepal, spontaneously developed a peculiar ability last year. She is, inexplicably, able to smell colors, and can supposedly even identify them while blindfolded.



Although she does not have an official diagnosis, her ability appears to be related to the sensory phenomena known as synaesthesia.

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The spokesperson of Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS), Sunday James, has said that it was not officially notified of the arrest warrant against the embattled former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms Abdulrasheed Maina.



While speaking exclusively to DailyTrust by telephone, James said no government agency notified the NIS of the arrest warrant against Maina.

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The All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied reports that the party’s National Executive Committee NEC meeting has been postponed.



On Thursday, there was a report that the party’s National Caucus and NEC meetings, scheduled for October 30 and 31 respectively, had been postponed.

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A Nigerian makeup artist, Teniola Aisha Kashaam has shared the story of her life why she had to stop bleaching her skin. The young woman revealed she began skin bleaching at the age of 19 which made her more attractive. But, the addiction nearly pushed her to the edge.



Kashaam shared her story on Instagram and wrote:

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Two months after he returned from his medical sojourn in London, United Kingdom (UK) for an undisclosed ailment, President Muhammadu Buhari still operates from his official residence located in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.



The president had, two days after returning from the medical vacation which spanned 103 days, written to the National Assembly, in line with constitutional provisions, intimating the parliament of his return to the country and resumption of office in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

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Reno Omokri, the former Special Adviser on New Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted to a statement credited to the Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita where she denied reinstating the former Pension boss, Abdullahi Abdulrasheed Maina.



Recall that the Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami had reportedly directed the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) to reinstate Maina, after being on the run for alleged N2 billion scam, among others.

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A former acting Governor of Kogi State and former Board of Trustees (BOT) member of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has jumped ship to join PDP.



Clarence Olafemi, who announced his defection while addressing newsmen on Sunday in Lokoja, said his decision is due to the alleged sidelining of the original members of the party by its leaders in the state.

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The police in Enugu State have arrested a man who allegedly stabbed a commercial s*x worker to death on Sunday, following a disagreement he had with the woman.



The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement on Monday, said that the incident happened at about 3:30 a.m. at Onuato Street, Enugu.

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A gunman who reportedly held two employees hostage at a central England bowling alley was arrested Sunday night after armed police moved in according to the Associated Press.



He was treated at the scene and taken to a hospital for treatment. The two workers held for roughly four hours were released unharmed, police and ambulance officials said.

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While speaking to journalists in Abuja at the weekend, the Chairman Senate committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, called for the arrest and prosecution of the Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, and other individuals who were indicted in the recent export of rotten yams from Nigeria to the United States of America.



According to DailyPost, The lawmaker who blamed the federal government over the rising food crisis in the country, said the inability of the Federal Government to plan and make adequate provision for its citizens was largely responsible for the crisis.

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The Governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha has described the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu as a mad man, according to a report by Pulse.



According to the report, Okorocha also said that Kanu’s actions have led to the tagging of Igbo people as IPOB members.

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A Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has joined eminent Nigerians of northern extraction and evaluated the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari in the light of recent calls on him to seek re-election by some northern governors, and declared that the President had not done enough.



While speaking in a chat with Saturday Vanguard, Junaid Said: “I have not seen evidence as a Nigerian, who goes to the market that the life of the average Nigerian is getting better. It is either these governors have their ambition or maybe they are beginning to think of what they can do.

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A Senate panel yesterday said N140billion has been recovered as a result of its probe on the N30trillion revenue leakages between 2006 and 2016, according to Dailytrust.



The panel said the fund has been remitted to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The revelation followed consideration of an interim report of the joint committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff and Marine Transport chaired by Senator Hope Uzodinma (PDP, Imo). Presenting the report, Senate said N128bn has been paid to the CBN by commercial banks involved in the revenue leakages.

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Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, Dr. David Oyedepo, has challenged academicians to ‘stop being merely bookish and start grooming thinkers’.



Oyedepo, who delivered the keynote address at the 54th meeting of the Committee of Deans of Post Graduate Schools in Nigerian Universities at Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, also declared that the greatest challenge facing the black man is not intellectual bankruptcy, but laziness and inability to task his thinking faculty towards realising assets that will benefit his immediate environment.

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Soldiers and police launched teargas to prevent the latest anti-government protest. Protesters also erected makeshift barricades and blocked roads in Togo’s two main cities on Wednesday as they continue to protest against President Gnassingbe.



The situation is getting worse in the capital Lome as streets were blocked and most shops were shut in the commercial area of Deckon, according to AFP reporters in the city.

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The governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has revealed that contrary to the sanctimonious posturing of his predecessor, former Governor Peter Obi, the state was saddled with a huge domestic debt of N127 billion when heleft office in March 2014, Daily Sun reports.



Speaking in the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, Governor Obiano explained that his silence over the debt his predecessor sought to tie his hands with had been mainly because he did not want to allow his regime to be distracted at inception. He explained that he wanted to concentrate on the delivering his promise of good governance to Ndi Anambra.

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Nunieh officially married a lady in her 40s on Tuesday at the Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.



The former member of the National Assembly, who said he was now a king in Ogoniland, River State, explained that he had been alone after his former wife died in 1991.

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Nunieh officially married a lady in her 40s on Tuesday at the Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The former member of the National Assembly, who said he was now a king in Ogoniland, River State, explained that he had been alone after his former wife died in 1991.


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