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Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has asked Nigerian youths to seek other means of employment as the government cannot provide everyone with jobs.

A statement released by the Deputy Director/Head of Press of the ministry, Charles Akpan, said the minister stated this during a Town hall Meeting on Popularization of blue/green collar jobs among graduates of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, which was held in Edo State.

Ngige who was represented at the event by the Director, Special Duties and Projects Department in the ministry, Martina Nwordu, said told the young graduates that the wealthiest youths in the world at present were not government employees.

The minister also urged Nigerian youths to invest their talent in other job sectors, as the richest youth of the world, aged between 21 and 31 years, are not employees of government but smart entrepreneurs who distinguished themselves in creative skills in various areas.

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A Hippopotamus believed to be wrecking havoc on farmlands in Samanaji, Kebbi State, has been killed after being trapped by some fishermen in the area.

According to reports, Samanaji is located around the banks of River Niger. The Council's Chairman, Bello Sarkin Gabas, and Council Members have visited the area yesterday


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According to reports, Students Union Government [SUG] president Adegboye Olatunji has been indefinitely suspended by the management of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, over cult-related offenses.

Yesterday, we reported how the police arrested him and one Olarewaju Taiwo, in the full regalia of the cult during initiation of new members of the group.

The duo were arrested following information received by the police from members of the public that some group of people, suspected to be cultists, were sighted in a bush at Gbogidi area of Ilaro where they were trying to initiate new members.

In reaction to this arrest, the school authorities on Monday announced the suspension of the SUG President. Sola Abiola, the deputy registrar public relations of the institution, disclosed this in a statement for alleged involvement in cultism.

She added that this is consequent upon the foiling of a meeting of some cult groups from the neighbouring community, by the security architecture and network of the Polytechnic, the local vigilante group in conjunction with Nigerian Police Force and the Directorate of State Security.


“The suspension of Mr Adegboye is in line with the Act establishing the Polytechnic and the provision of the Students Handbook coupled with the Polytechnic’s zero tolerance to cultism, pending his appearance before the Students Disciplinary Committee to establish his culpability or otherwise” she added.


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Police in Anambrastate have rescued a 14- year-old girl allegedly kidnapped in Onitsha.

The police spokesperson, Haruna Mohammed, said three suspects, including a female were also arrested in connection with the abduction.

The victim held hostage for 27 days and allegedly raped severally by the suspects was rescued by the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) at their hideout in Ogidi.

He said: “At about 5:30pm, the Command Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) trailed and arrested at their hideout in Ogidi the following syndicate: Onyemechi Aniobi ‘m’ aged 23years, Elochukwu Okudo ‘m’ aged 25 years and Pauline Elechi ‘f’ aged 24 years.

Suspects had on the 12/1/2020 allegedly kidnapped a 14 year-old girl in Onitsha and took her to an undisclosed location.

Consequently, On the 30/1/2020 the syndicate contacted the victim’s mother through SMS and demanded for ransom of ten million Naira which was later reduced downward after much pleading by the mother.

Suspects equally sent a first Bank account number 3120904371 bearing one John Blessing to the.

Meanwhile, the victim who was held hostage for twenty Seven days and allegedly raped severally by the suspects was rescued by the Police and taken to the hospital for medical examination.”

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The Abia State Police Command has warned members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB ) not to attend the burial ceremony of His Royal Majesty, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, and his wife, who are the parents of their leader, NnamdiKanu.

According to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Ene Okon, “Whoever thinks along that line is fooling himself. IPOB will dance during the burial and the police elephants will dance too.”

He added that the traditional prime minister in Afaraukwu (Nnamdi Kanu’s hometown) has been informed that the burial will not hold if IPOB members attend.

“They (Afaraukwu community) should tell IPOB not go near the area not to talk of participating in the burial,” he warned. Speaking on what will happen if IPOB disregard the warning, Ene Okon said, “we are going to scatter the place.”

He continued: “I am saying this again for emphasis that there is no way police will allow a proscribed group to participate in the burial of the King and Queen of Afaraukwu simply because they are the parents of their acclaimed leader.


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Two serving corps members in Kano have tied the knot months after the met during their orientation program in the state.

The couple Mohammed Alhaji Musa and Hauwa Yahaya Bagudu both met during the 2019 Batch ‘A’ Orientation Course, where they reportedly fell in love with each other.
A post shared on NYSC Official Forum reads:

The ancient city of Kano stood still today when two serving Corps Members, Mohammed Alhaji
Musa and Hauwa Yahaya Bagudu exchanged marital vows.

The new couple met at NYSC Kano State Orientation Camp in Kusallah Dam Karaye during the 2019 Batch ‘A’ Orientation Course.

NYSC Kano State Coordinator, Malam Baba Ladan, who led other NYSC Staff and Corps Members to the wedding reception which took place at Nigeria Air Force Base in Kano, commended the new couple for maintaing their relationship which blossomed into marriage.

He also praised them for fulfilling one of the objectives of the NYSC Scheme which is to achieve national unity and integration.

The Coordinator used the ocassion to appeal to other Corps Members to build relationships that would bring good memories in the future.

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A writer and researchers has highlighted eight reasons why she believes premarital sex is actually a good thing.

Says, Culturally, society's attitude toward women and sex is pretty messed up.

Society tells us that it's dirty, filthy, and wrong, and women who have it are sinners who have to pretend that they don't know what a male organ looks like.

Then, on that magical day at some point in their adulthood, those formerly dirty women get married (if any guy will still have them and their tattered hymens) and the sex act, a thing they've been doing in a dirty way for years, suddenly transforms into an amazing and blessed experience.

Sex, you see, is a very bad, dirty thing that you should only do with someone you love very, very much.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has terminated two key observers in the reprimand examination against him, as he began an evident crusade of counter only two days after he was absolved by the Senate.

Trump terminated Gordon Sondland, the U.S. minister to the European Union, only hours in the wake of expelling Ukraine master Alexander Vindman, an enlivened Army lieutenant colonel, as indicated by proclamations discharged by Sondland and Vindman's legal counselor.

"The most influential man on the planet – floated by the quiet, the malleable, and the complicit – has chosen to get payback," Vindman's lawyer David Pressman said in an announcement, including his customer was "accompanied" from the White House.

It was an astounding move by Trump to free his organization from individuals who have affirmed in the indictment test, which researched Trump's endeavor to constrain Ukraine to seek after examinations that could help his 2020 re-appointment offer.

Sondland – a political deputy who gave 1 million dollars to the Trump's presidential battle – affirmed openly that he accepted there was a renumeration in Trump's interest that Kiev seek after examinations.

"I was prompted today that the president plans to review me taking effect right now as United States Ambassador to the European Union," Sondland said in an announcement, revealed by numerous U.S. news sources.

"Our work here has been the feature of my vocation," he included.

Ukraine master Vindman – who dealt with National Security Council – was one of various Trump organization authorities that tuned in on a July 25 call where Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky to do "some help" and examine his political adversary.

"It was wrong, it was ill-advised for the president to request an examination concerning a political rival, particularly an outside force," Vindman said during his declaration.

Prior on Friday Trump – who was vindicated for this present week on all denunciation charges – showed that Vindman would be expelled.

"You believe I should be content with him? I'm not," Trump said.

As per different U.S. media reports, Vindman will be reassigned to a situation in the Defense Department.

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The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that reports being flowed via web-based networking media that the Service had alarmed general society about the development of psychological oppressors into the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and different pieces of the nation are bogus.

The Service likewise exposed reports that extravagance transports of three significant vehicle organizations were captured on the Lokoja-Okene Road by people suspected to support an ethnic plan.

An announcement by Public Relations Officer, DSS National Headquarters, Abuja, Dr Peter Afunanya, read, "the consideration of the Department of State Services (DSS) has been attracted to bogus reports being circled on the online networking that the Service had cautioned people in general about the development of fear mongers into the FCT and different pieces of Southern and Middlebelt areas of Nigeria.

"Another deceptive report identifies with the supposed seize of extravagance transports of three significant vehicle organizations on the Lokoja-Okene Road by people suspected to support an ethnic plan.

"The alarm purportedly gave by the Service on the appearance of Boko Haram and other psychological oppressor components to the previously mentioned spots has been available for use since 2013 when it was first made by underhandedness creators whose handicraft is to cause tumult.

"Thus, the report concerning affirmed assault on the extravagance transports passing on a specific ethnic gathering to their nearby base was first made a few years back to trick and affect clueless people.

"The general population is asked to ignore these misleading stories and reports completely. As phony news that they seem to be, the DSS wishes to expel them as non-existent and in this way depict them as invention of the creative mind of their makers. The illusive stories are simply planned by certain radicals to affect ethno-strict and political emergencies of rough and damaging measurements the nation over.

"It has, in any case, become clear that the fundamental point of taking part in these unwanted activities is to likewise undermine national security for the accomplishment of some ulterior objectives.

"The Service scowls at the persistent abuse of social, strict and ancestral contrasts by purveyors of fate to touch off outrageous savage activities among the masses.

"While security and law requirement organizations are completely dedicated to supporting most extreme endeavors in guaranteeing open wellbeing in the country

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A lady identified as Chinwendu Chita has been arraigned before Ejigbo Magistrates Court on charges of alleged assault of her husband, Okechukwu Chita and a Police woman at their residence in Alhaji Agbeke Street, Ago Palace in Okota area of Lagos.

Chita, 32, was accused of continously assaulting her husband for not showing enough commitment in their marriage by getting her pregnant, leaving him scared of returning to their home.

The lady who allegedly began assaulting her husband in 2018, subjected him to more physical abuses after the police intervened.

The accused allegedly asaulted her husband after locking him up in their apartment 22nd December, 2019. She reportedly used a frying spoon to smash his head and face causing him grievous injuries, before forcefully collecting the sum of N650,000 from him in exchange for his life.

Chinwendu who continued beating her husband despite warnings from the police, also allegedly assaulted a police woman Sgt. Ojooniyan Omonike, who was sent over by the DPO of Ago Police division to invite her to the police station.

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One Adetunji Adesina a 29-year-old primary school drop-out, has confessed to stealing from bank customers using the ATM machines.

According to reports, Adesina, who hails from Osogbo, Osunstate, made this revelation on Tuesday after being arrested by the police in Benin, EdoState.

He was arrested while in possession of 10 different ATM cards and cash amounting to N678,000 withdrawn from the account of one Mr. Ekhitomwen Aghama.

According to him , he met Ekhitomwen at the ATM machine of one the new generation banks along Sapele Road, Benin.

“I pretended that I wanted to use the ATM machine, then deliberately dropped my phone on the ground. While Aghama was trying to help me, I punched the cardless button on the ATM machine.

He was, unaware that I pressed the cardless button, so he thought his card was stuck in the machine and went to seek for help from bank workers. At that point, I removed it from the cardless transaction and removed his ATM card.

I got his ATM pin number when I was pretending to help him and later withdrew 678,000 from his account, using the ATM and PoS, just before I was arrested by the police,” he said.

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The Nigerian Government has reducedits visa application charges for citizens of the United States from $180 to $160.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the old amount comprised $160 as visa fee and $20 as “processing and expedient fees”.

According to the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr Muhammad Babandede, the reduction followed a review of the US’ visa reciprocity policy for Nigeria.

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Four members of the National Youth Service Corps scheme, representing thousands of others, on Thursday, visited President Buhari to thank him over the recent increase in their monthly allowances from N19,800 to N33,000.

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme as a laudable one that needs to be sustained as it affords the opportunity for Nigerian youths to understand the country better.

“People come from far and wide; some from Victoria Island in Lagos have not even been to Ikeja. They now find themselves in Daura and other parts of the country. Whenever I go to my town, I get in touch with members; some of them from Lagos, some from Port Harcourt,” he stated.

President Buhari who said this Thursday in Abuja while playing host to corps members who came on a thank-you visit to him, also praised General Yakubu Gowon for the initiative.

“Whenever I meet General Gowon up till today, I thank him for initiating the NYSC. It is a nationalist and patriotic thinking that led to the development of the scheme,” he added

Four members representing others countrywide came to convey their “deepest gratitude” to the President over the recent increase in their monthly allowances from N19,800 to N33,000.

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According to reports, tragedy struck yesterday in Ile Oluji, Ondo State, as armed robbers attack two banks, leaving several people dead.

The robbery operation started around 4pm at Polaris and First bank. About four policemen were killed in the attack that also saw a bank security guard and a customer shot dead.

An eyewitness revealed that the robbers gained entry into the banks with the aid of dynamites.


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18-year-old Nnadi Michael, one of the four seminarians abducted at the Good Shepherd Seminary, Kaduna State, has been found dead.

According to reports, they were abducted in January, when gunmen dressed in military uniforms attacked the school located at Kakau along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway. Three of the seminarians were, however, released on Friday.

Those freed are Pius Kanwai, 19; Peter Umenukor, 23; and Stephen Amos, 23. The four seminarians were at the beginning of their philosophy studies when the incident occurred.

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A Federal High Court in Lagos has conceded in proof a report from the administration of Turkey charging that one Great James Ayogu purchased rifles from a Turkish producer.

Ayogu, his organization, Great James Oil and Gas Ltd and two others, Festus Emeka Umeh and Ifeuwa Moses Christ are standing preliminary before Justice Saliu Saidu for supposed firearm running.



They were charged on October 11, 2018, by the Nigerian Customs Services (NCS) on five tallies of supposed connivance, unlawful importation of 1570 siphon activity weapons, adjustment of import structures, fraud and bogus revelation.

The NCS said they submitted the offenses between September 6 to 20, 2017.

The respondents argued not blameworthy to the charge but rather were denied abandon the ground that the claims against them verged on national security'.



At the resumption of preliminary last Friday, a Deputy Director in the workplace of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Julius Ajakaiye, said the 6th indictment witness, Mr Ali Abubakar was prepared for interrogation.

Be that as it may, third respondent's guidance, Mr Wale Adeshokan (SAN) told the judge that Ajakaiye still couldn't seem to serve the guard with extra verification of proof.

He said the extra verification of proof was the official letter by the Turkish Embassy on the snuck riffles.



Ajakaiye, with the court's endorsement, served the July 30, 2018 letter on the resistance.

The letter, with reference number: 540.18/18,52 and routed to the Comptroller-General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Ali, was in this way offered, conceded by the court and set apart as Exhibit GJ 23.

Some portion of it peruses: "I have the pleasure to encase herewith the records assembled by the Turkish Gendarmerie and Police during the examination started by the solicitation of the Nigerian Customs Service. The discoveries of the Turkish security offices are outlined underneath:


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Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege has said the bombed case looking to preclude him for purportedly being an ex-convict in the United States (U.S.A) is an insignificant interruption.

An announcement by his media assistant, Yomi Odunuga, said Omo-Agege talked at the end of the week in Abuja when rulers, older folks and strict pioneers from Urhobo Kingdom visited him.

As per the representative, unremarkable political enemies were set on diverting the National Assembly authority from working with the Executive to convey the profits of majority rule government to Nigerians.

The congressperson said the bombed endeavor to expel him from office may not be detached with 2023 political interests.

Equity Othman Musa of the FCT High Court a week ago rejected the suit testing Omo-Agege's qualification for supposedly being a conviction in the U.S. The court held that the case was a non-criminal preliminary, and granted N1 million fine against the inquirers, an up to this point obscure Incorporated Trustees of Patriotic Youth Organization of Nigeria, for burning through the hour of the court.

The announcement peruses: "I am not a government official who can be threatened by anyone; for those foes at home, they know me quite well however I am certain the individuals who took an interest did as such with spread from others outside who truly didn't have any acquaintance with me well.

"On the off chance that they knew, similar to the nearby foes, that I am not effectively threatened, I am certain they wouldn't have gone on this unbeneficial journey. This isn't the first occasion when we have experienced this; I implore it is the last time. In any case, to the degree they decided not to make it the last time, they likewise have me to fight with on the grounds that I don't put up with idiots readily.

"For the individuals who don't have the foggiest idea, they will find a good pace the imminent future. I saw every last bit of it and those behind it as minor aggravations who were resolved to divert me and the administration of the National Assembly from working with the official to empower us convey the profits of majority rule government to the individuals.


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A final year student of Delta State University, identified as Precious Omordia has lost his life in a tragic drowning in Okotie river, Delta State.

According to reports Omordia’s death occurred yesterday around 1:30pm when he went to swim in the river with three friends (a boy and two girls).

According to reports, the deceased’s friends fled the scene of the incident without seeking help.
A search which was launched after his hostel mates got worried over his whereabouts, led to the discovery of the corpse of the final year student of physiology in the river. The father of the deceased was notified before Omordia’s corpse was retrieved and taken to Agbor.


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12 members of a child trafficking syndicate which specialized in Stealing little children from their homes and selling them to waiting buyers, have been arrested and six children recovered.

Members of the syndicate include a couple, Ifeoma Ebony and Emmanuel Onyekwere, who goes around the country stealing the children and sell to middle-men, who then sell to people in dire need of children.

It was learned that Ebony, a mother of two, and her boyfriend Onyekere, abducted several children from their homes in Abia, Enugu, Abuja and Edo State, which they sold to their buyers identified as Blessing Nwankwo, Chioma Nike and one Onwa, whose real name were yet unknown,

They sold the children for prizes ranging from N250,000 and N450,000 each depending on the gender and Physical Condition Of the Child.

Other suspects arrested are Onyinye Benjami, Ngozi Okoli, Nwokocha Okoli, Ndiya Kalu and Esther Ihiediwa.

Ebony, 32, from Enugu State, blamed her involvement in child abduction and trafficking on her inability to get a proper education because her father married two wives and couldn’t send her to school.

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Donald Trump has become the first US president to attend America’s largest annual anti-abortion rally. He addressed thousands of protesters at the March for Life near the US Capitol where his impeachment trial is ongoing.

Mr Trump said: “We’re here for a very simple reason: to defend the right of every child born and unborn to fullfil their God-given potential.”
The annual demonstration first began in 1974 – a year after the US Supreme Court legalised abortion in Roe v Wade. Until now no president had ever attended the march, which takes place just steps from the White House, though previous Republican presidents, including George W Bush and Ronald Reagan, have addressed the group remotely.

Mike Pence became the first sitting vice-president to attend the rally in 2017. Mr Trump’s appearance at the 47th March for Life delighted protesters. Voters who support limiting abortion make up a key constituency for Mr Trump, who is seeking their support at the polls again in the 2020 election.
On Friday, marchers in Washington shouted “four more years” and “we love you”. On the streets surrounding the National Mall vendors selling Trump flags and Make America Great Again hats were aplenty. Many of the attendees sported pro-Trump merchandise, though for some, there was a distinction between liking the president and liking his anti-abortion stance.

One young woman, Julia, told the BBC: “I’m not necessarily pro-Trump, but I appreciate that the President of the United States is making the move to be here.” She added that she was unhappy at all the focus on Mr Trump as opposed to the issue. “Until the day we can see Roe v Wade switched, [the movement] will continue, whether he’s president in the next election or not.”

Chuck Raymond, a financial advisor in St Louis, said: “Without a doubt, he is the most pro-life, pro-family, pro-religious freedom president we’ve ever had.”

Mr Trump’s appearance on Friday has already made a difference for some voters. Jose Sandoval, who drove nine hours from Knoxville, Tennessee, to participate in the march, said he did not vote for Mr Trump in 2016, but his attendance has changed Mr Sandoval’s mind for 2020.

“I really appreciate what he’s doing for us,” he told the BBC. “It matters what he thinks about [abortion], and this changed my thinking about him.”

Mother-daughter pair Marci and Jeanette Houle had a similar journey down to the capital – 10 hours in a bus from New Hampshire. Marci said they appreciated that the president was backing up his anti-abortion stance with his presence. “We voted for Trump in the first place because he was the pro-life [anti-abortion] choice, that was our main concern. If his opponent [in 2020] is not pro-life, we’re going to vote for Donald Trump.”

In 2016, 81% of Evangelical voters – a group for whom abortion is the biggest political issue – backed Mr Trump for president. He has continued to court them as his re-election campaign ramps up. March for Life president Jeanne Mancini said Mr Trump and his administration “have been consistent champions for life”.

But pro-choice groups said his appearance was a distraction tactic. Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said it was “a desperate attempt to divert attention from his criminal presidency and fire up his radical base”.

America’s two main political parties are more polarised than ever on the issue of abortion. Democrats campaigning for November’s White House election are unapologetically pro-choice – something many March for Life attendees said made the candidates inaccessible to anti-abortion supporters, even if they disliked Mr Trump.

In 2016, the Democratic party for the first time included in its platform a call to repeal the Hyde Amendment, a decades-old law that prohibits using taxpayer money for abortions. Last year, leading White House contender Joe Biden was sharply criticised by his Democratic rivals for initially backing the Hyde Amendment. Amid uproar from the party’s liberal base, he reversed course in June.

Mr Trump, meanwhile, has bolstered support for anti-abortion views within the Republican party. In 2018, he was the first sitting president to address the Campaign for Life gala, sponsored by the Susan B Anthony List anti-abortion political action group. Earlier this week, the group announced it would spend $52m (£40m) in support of the president and Republicans in 2020.

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The ongoing coronavirus outbreak is a global health emergency, the World Health Organization stated yesterday.

Since it started last month, the virus’s spread has reached nearly two dozen countries, sickened thousands, and impacted both travel and business around the world.

“The main reason is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries,” said Tedros Adhanom, director general of the WHO, in a press conference today.

“Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to other countries with weaker health systems, which are ill prepared to deal with it.”

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Reports had it that, the three Nigerian stowaways have landed in Ghana against their expectation to land in Madrid, Spain.

The three; Isaac Daniel, 32, Stephen Nuta, 28 and Kelvin Popoola, 26, reportedly sneaked into an MV Unity vessel from Apapa Port in Lagos, thinking it was heading to Spain.

The ship rather landed in Tema Port, Ghana. Officers at the Tema Port have identified 32-year-old Isaac as a serial stowaway as this is not his first time for being arrested for such.

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A veteran Nollywood actress, identified as Toni Tones took to Twitter to deliberate on what some women want from romantic relationships.


According to her, not all women want marriage in a romantic relationship. Toni Tones revealed that some women are in romantic relationships so they can have someone to have fun with, explore the world with, cook with, eat with, learn with, grow with and sleep with.

She also pointed out that while some women are more interested in marriage, others aren’t ready for marriage but still value romantic relationships. Toni Tones urged romantic partners to be clear on what they want from their relationship.

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A veteran Nollywood actress, identified as Toni Tones took to Twitter to deliberate on what some women want from romantic relationships.


According to her, not all women want marriage in a romantic relationship. Toni Tones revealed that some women are in romantic relationships so they can have someone to have fun with, explore the world with, cook with, eat with, learn with, grow with and sleep with.

She also pointed out that while some women are more interested in marriage, others aren’t ready for marriage but still value romantic relationships. Toni Tones urged romantic partners to be clear on what they want from their relationship.

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The board researching claim of s*xual provocation against a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Osun State, Mr. Olabisi Olaleye, has presented its report to the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede.

The college specialists comprised the board drove by the Provost of the Postgraduate College of the college, Prof. Yetunde Ajibade, to investigate the charge against the speaker in the Department of International Relations.

Accepting the report, the bad habit chancellor reestablished the college's pledge to zero resistance for any type of s*xual and enthusiastic badgering.

Prof. Ogunbodede educated understudies and individuals concerning the college network to don't hesitate to report any encroachment on their privileges by anyone to the suitable organ of the college for examination and review.

Ogunbodede, who further instructed the understudies to make use regarding the chance of the open entryway strategy of the present organization, said the college organization would before long present the discoveries of the board to the Academic and Promotion Committee of the college for considerations.

He included that the board thusly would display the report to the college's Governing Council for ultimate conclusion.

The bad habit chancellor expressed gratitude toward people in general for their enthusiasm for the college, promising to consistently safeguard the scholastic holiness and scholarly respectability of the organization as set somewhere near its establishing fathers.

Ogunbodede lauded the individuals from the board for their penance and for a vocation all around done.

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday secured conviction of four persons for selling the e-PIN for the 2020 unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) above N4, 700.

A pastor of one of the new generation churches, Mr. Ujaku Emem Samuel, his wife, Mrs. Peace; Mr. Opulani Sunupe and Mr. Umar Musa Sa’adu, were convicted on Monday by a Magistrate Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State.

According to a statement by JAMB’s Head of Information, the four persons pleaded guilty to the offence.

They were sentenced to three years in prison each

The Federal Government had pegged the sale of 2020,UTME/DE application documents at N3, 500, reading text for N500 and N700 for computer based test centres (CBT) totalling N4, 700.

The statement reads: “No fewer than four persons who are agents of accredited sale outlets arrested by officers of NSCDC, Nasarawa State Command for selling the ongoing 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) application documents above the prescribed price of N4000 have been sentenced to three years in prison each.

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The Federal Government has sacked 30 recipients of its N-Power program in Adamawa State.

Mary Yuwadi, Focal Person of the government's Social Investment Programs ( SIP), who made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on Wednesday in Yola noticed that the 30 educators, were expelled for slipping away from obligations at their places of essential task.

"Under the Federal Government National Social Investment Program, an aggregate of 14,100 Youths in the state were enrolled in different sections of the projects.

"The central government has likewise halted their regularly scheduled installment. This will fill in as hindrance for different individuals who are not genuine in their work environments.

"We found that a portion of the individuals who enrolled under the program in Adamawa, live in Abuja and Lagos and gather the stipend being paid.


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The Federal Government has approved the payment of N33,000 as monthly allowance for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

NYSC Director-General (DG), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim disclosed this while speaking to Corps members at the NYSC, BauchiState Secretariat during his working visit to the State.


In a press statement posted on the official Facebook page of NYSC, the DG explained: “provision had been made for the new allowance in the year 2020 Budget, adding that payment would commence as soon as funds are released by the appropriate authorities.”

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set up a powerful assignment on the aftereffect of a weekend ago's rerun political election n Oru East/Orsu/Orlu Federal Constituency of Imo State.

The assignment contains a National Commissioner, Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECS) and different laborers of the commission.

Criminals had disturbed the examination of results at an assigned focus in Orlu during the last Saturday's strengthening political race in the voting public.

The hooligans harmed INEC's laborers and different people at the middle. They likewise pulverized outcome sheets and harmed the commission's structure.

The procedure was suspended.

An announcement by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman on Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the commission additionally suspended the procedure in some surveying units in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, where INEC laborers were kidnapped.


In any case, the commission demanded that the rerun recorded wonderful improvement over the past decisions.

The announcement peruses: "The INEC met on January 27, 2020 and audited the direct of the January 25, 2020 court-requested rerun decisions in 28 electorates in 11 conditions of the league.

"It noticed a checked improvement in consistence with its procedures and systems during the decisions. The commission compliments the voters, security specialists, the media and political decision laborers for their excellent lead."

It included: "Deplorably, freak conduct by a couple of people resolved to subvert the individuals' will was seen in a couple of regions throughout the races. These disengaged episodes negligibly influenced the quiet and organized exercise in just four of the 28 electorates where races were directed.

"Be that as it may, steady with the commission's determination to authorize constituent terrible conduct, the commission found a way to secure the procedure.


"In Akwa Ibom State, where the authorities of the commission were kidnapped and occupied to an undesignated area and compelled to bargain the races in Essien Udim Local Government Area, all the surveying units included were distinguished and their outcomes disapproved.

"In Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State, the exercises of outlaws kept the commission from conveying to a couple surveying units, yet the commission effectively led decisions and pronounced outcomes.


"In Abi State Constituency of Cross River State, authorities of the commission were snatched and along these lines kept from conveying in eight surveying units.


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The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has said it has arrested 36 persons for crossing the highways.

According to reports, Corps Marshal Mrs. Gbemisola Akinpelu, a retired commissioner ofa police, in a statement signed by Mr. Adebayo Kehinde, head of Public Affairs Unit, said besides the suspects risking their lives and those of motorists, they also impeded free flow of vehicular movement while crossing major highways where overhead bridges were erected for usage.

“The agency is geared toward attaining total compliance on road crossing and use of pedestrian bridges, in line with the mandate of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on the enforcement and prosecution of the offenders.

“The distance from the pedestrian bridges where arrests can be made by LAGESC officers against erring pedestrians wishing to endanger their lives by crossing the highway is pegged at 200 metres.

“The agency is carrying out total enforcement in some of the identified areas such as Ikeja Along, Ikorodu Road, Ojota, Berger, C.M.S., among others,” she said.

Akinpelu said that the agency had established additional divisional offices toward ensuring coverage of all areas.

She stressed the need for divisional commanders, deputy divisional commanders, unit commanders and senior officers to monitor pedestrian bridges.

The retired CP urged the officers and men to dislodge traders around the bridges and walkways for free human movements.

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EFCC probes Wada, Ayeni, AVM Atawodi over arms deal
Funds traced to foreign car dealership, offshore accounts


A serving governor is topping the list of suspects being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for an alleged N6,549,942, 637.14 fraud in an arms deal.

Also under scrutiny are the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada, a former Chairman of Skye Bank, Mr. Tunde Ayeni, retired Air Vice Marshal Salihu Atawodi and four others.
The alleged fraud was perpetrated by the defunct Presidential Implementation Committee on Maritime Security (PICOMSS), which was headed by Atawodi. About N4.9billion cash was said to have from PICOMMS accounts without any specific project in mind.

The serving governor was alleged to have received N1, 475, 144,199.15 of the withdrawn cash for the purpose of lobbying members of the House of Representatives to convert PICOMS into an agency. The name proposed was Maritime Security Agency.

The governor was chairman of the House Committee on National Security, Intelligence and Public Safety at the time and he was said to have convinced Atawodi’s PICOMS to part with the cash.

The sum received was such a top secret that a former Speaker was given a “ridiculous N1million” as his share.

Some former members of the House of Representatives who benefitted from the bribe-for-bill cash from the governor might be invited for questioning,the Nation gathered last night. Sources said the governor was initially cooperating with the EFCC on the investigation, only to stop honouring the invitation of the anti-graft agency two days before he was declared elected by the Supreme Court.

He currently enjoys immunity from prosecution by virtue of his office, but he may still face trial after his tenure. The remaining seven key suspects are expected to be arraigned in court soon.
They include Mrs. Winifred Atawodi; Aeroconsult Limited, Xanatos Limited and a daughter of the ex-PICOMMS chairman, Eleojo who is under investigation. The EFCC has already blocked the following amounts in Mrs. Winifred Atawodi’s accounts: N141, 611, 736.8 and $228, 428.16.

Another N200million has been placed on Post No Debit (PND) in First Mutual Micro-Finance Bank traced to Purple Pepper Farms Limited allegedly owned by Atawodi’s daughter (Eleojo).

About five hectares of land worth N245million have been seized from the Atawodis. The EFCC has also uncovered how $6.12million was invested by the Atawodis in Midland Corporate Investment Limited account with Sun Trust Savings and Loans Real Estate Limited.

From the cash, AVM Atawodi allegedly transferred $408,000 transferred to an auto firm in the United States called Hennessy Cadillac for exotic vehicles including a Rolls Royce.

About $808, 851 was located in Wells Fargo Bank 2 in the name of United International Enterprises. Detectives have identified a house allegedly owned by Atawodi in Lot of the 17th District of Fulton County in Georgia at 3266 Ferncliff Lane, Atlanta Georgia 30324.

Despite the seizure of the passports of the Atawodis, one of the daughters has applied to travel abroad for medical treatment in order to sell the house in Atlanta.

The EFCC has also been alerted by some foreign collaborating anti-fraud agencies of plot by the daughter to sell the house.

Investigation revealed that PICOMMS was set up between 2008 and 2012. It was disbanded in 2013. The committee was expected to guarantee safety on the sea and waterways.

Findings by detectives revealed that AVM Atawodi, his friends and immediate family feasted on the resources allocated to PICOMMS including donor agencies funds.

Others funding PICOMMS were the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA), NIMASA, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Ministry of Defence (MOD).

A document obtained by The Nation indicated that on 12th November, 2010, AVM Atawodi made PICOMMS to issue out contracts for Maritime Domain Monitoring System for Maritime Surveillance at a cost of $32,337,163.00 to Xanatos Company Limited linked with a former Chairman of Skye Bank, Mr. Tunde Ayeni.

“The fraud was detected in the course of reviewing how funds were disbursed from PICOMS to Xanatos Company Limited and other beneficiary companies. Xanatos Company Limited made a lot of questionable payments obviously from the contract sum.

“One of the companies was AUSWEE Investment Limited where Atawodi, his wife and children are directors. Checks on AUSWEE acronym revealed as follows A(Amana); U(Uneku-the daughter); S(Salihu); W(Winifred Abiodun Atawodi-wife); E(Eleojo-another daughter); E(Ebi-another daughter).

But one Roland Uhuago, who is an associate of AVM Atawodi, was used as a front for AUSWEE. From the statements of accounts of PICOMS in Polaris Bank, Union Bank and ECOBANK, there were many cash withdrawals and cash movement lodged in Sun Trust Savings and Loans through a former director of the finance firm, Mr. Mohammed Jibril. About $5million was invested on behalf of the Atawodis by Jibril.

“During that period, about N4.9billion was withdrawn in cash in 2011 which they claimed they used for an unclear purpose. We have seized the passports of AVM Atawodi and some members of his family to restrict their movement to the country pending the commencement of their trial.

Based on the depth of investigation, EFCC has blocked the accounts of Mrs. Winifred Atawodi’s with N141, 611, 736.8 and $228, 428.16. Another N200million has been placed on Post No Debit (PND) in First Mutual Micro-Finance Bank traced to Purple Pepper Farms Limited allegedly owned by Atawodi’s daughter (Eleojo).

About five hectares of land worth N245million have been seized from the Atawodis. The land was bought from Hilton Hotel and the relevant agency in the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) has confirmed it.”

On the involvement of ex-Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State, the brief on the case indicated that his company Aeroconsult Limited was awarded a contract for the construction of a hanger in Benin Airport for the sum of N2, 780, 649, 450.00 described as an inflated rate.

“Aeroconsult also sublet their contract to Olutoyi Estate Development and Services Limited in which N700million was given to the company. From the inflated total cost of the hangar, about N550million was given to AUSWEE.

And from the N500million, about N484, 000,000 was transferred to Vector Integrated Services Limited owned by Atawodi. This company has an account with Union Bank where Mrs. Winifred Atawodi was a manager before she retired.

The withdrawal from AUSWEE to Vector Integrated Services was from Atawodi. And from Union Bank, some of the cash were moved into the account of Vector Integrated Services Limited in Fidelity Bank.”

A top source in EFCC said: “When we invited the former Governor of Kogi State, Capt. Idris Wada for interrogation, he insisted that the contract was well-executed.

But we detected evidence of transfers to AUSWEE which suggested that the hangar contract was inflated. The ex-governor and Aeroconsult have more questions to answer, especially when fresh transfers were made in 2018 and 2019 to AVM Atawodi.”

Regarding the serving governor, the source added: “The N1, 475, 144,199.15 was converted to dollars and handed over to the governor when he was a member of the House of Representatives.


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