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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/14/protesters-storm-benin-city-streets-call-for-revocation-of-bedcs-license/

Fed up with the epileptic power supply of Benin Electricity Distributing Company (BEDC), a group of protesters took to the streets of Benin City today, complaining about BEDC's poor service. They also called on the federal government to revoke the license of the company, when they spoke to newsmen.

One of the protesters, a Facebook user, wrote on his page,

"The BEDC is dead in Edo state.

Federal Government MUST REVOKE their licence NOW!"

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Source: [urlhttp://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/14/crowds-mob-governor-dickson-as-he-marks-2nd-term-1st-year-anniversary/url]

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/14/crowds-mob-governor-dickson-as-he-marks-2nd-term-1st-year-anniversary/

Governor Seriake Adaka Dickson of Bayelsa State is marking the 2nd term first year anniversary of his stewardship. The people of the state mob him as he carries out he business, which involves a lot of carnival and banners.

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/13/photos-of-a-jeep-with-battered-tires-spotted-in-benue-state/

Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/13/photos-of-a-jeep-with-battered-tires-spotted-in-benue-state/

According to economists, the state of the economy determines a lot of things - cars, buildings, foods etc. So when a car is bad, look at the economy, it will tell you a lot of things. A Facebook user, on seeing this jeep on the road in Benue State, ascribes it to the hunger and recession in the land. Read what he wrote:

"This hunger is getting out of hand..

What is the meaning of this?

Is this spare tyre or Benue hunger?

See how innocent people are suffering..
I couldn't control myself today than allow tears washed my face this morning when I walk passed wurukum today and saw this car been parked somewhere in makurdi.

Now the questions is:

What have Benue people done to the present Government to deserve this unavoidable hunger and poverty been enacted upon them by this present APC Administration?
This is very bad and death close...
We can't continue this way..
Enough is Enough.."

Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/13/photos-of-the-biggest-onion-market-in-nigeria-at-kebbi-state/

Kebbi is one of the states at the vanguard of the nation's Anchor Borrowers Programme. In 2016, it crossed the one million Tonne mark in rice production. But the state is not only serious about rice production. It arguably has one of the biggest onion markets in Nigeria, located in Yauri Local Government Area. A Facebook user was so impressed, he wrote,

"If only my brother in faraway Oyinboland will stop wailing and finance a commercial agriculture project in his hometown, he will reap so much in no distant time.

A little dollars now does a lot of work."

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/11/governor-kashim-shettima-commissions-waste-to-wealth-plastic-company-in-bornu/

Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/11/governor-kashim-shettima-commissions-waste-to-wealth-plastic-company-in-bornu/

Borno State Governor Hon Kashim Shettima yesterday received the Hon Minister of Environment Hajjia Amina Mohammed.

The Hon Minister, Hajiya Amina Mohammed and the Governor then proceeded to commission the Newly Constructed Borno Plastic Company named Waste to Wealth.

The company is to turn waste products into materials that can create wealth for the teeming people in Borno State.

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/10/ondo-council-chairman-who-slumped-in-hotel-room-buried/

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Nairaland earlier in the week carried the story about Agunola Omomowo, the IIaje council chairman who slumped and died in a hotel room after a political meeting in Akure.

https://www.nairaland.com/3608836/agunola-omomowo-slumps-dies-hotel#53384230


Well, he was buried yesterday, according to information from a post shared by a Facebook user. His body lay in state at the IIaje local government headquarters in Igbokoda, mourned by politicians from all over Ondo State.

Here is the sad Facebook post:

A good heart has stopped beating, a good soul ascended
to heaven. We part with our beloved Chairman in pain. Goodbye HON. AGUNOLA OMOMOWO (ADORATION) EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN ILAJE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/10/university-students-protest-over-non-payment-of-bursary-allowances-in-akure/

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/10/university-students-protest-over-non-payment-of-bursary-allowances-in-akure/

A Facebook user shared this post. Ondo State students staged a staged a demonstration against the Chairman of the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC), Pastor Wole Johnson Ogunyemi, over the non-payment of their bursary. They protested around OSOPADEC's complex and later marched to Government Office at Alagbaka. Here is the post.

"*SOLIDARITY FOR EVER*

I want to use this medium to appreciate the ever
corrosive students from ESE-ODO for the maturity display during yesterday protest tagged ("NO BURSARY ALERT, NO WORK AT OSOPADEC) starting from oba-ile OSOPADEC OFFICE to Alagbaka Governors office.

I want to give kudos to my amiable legal adviser for his quick response to call upon my unlawful detention with ilaje student president and intimidation of students by the D. P. O oba ile where some of comrades was also arrested and taking to the state CID to drop our names but we show them what we are made of, which prompt then to call the commissioner of police upon our demand to speak with the CP only.

i equally want to thanks the comrades that continue the protest even when we are arrested to liberate ilaje & ese odo students from the satanic minded chairman of OSOPADEC (pastor. Wole Johnson Ogunyemi) and for there unintimidated demonstration in the governor office before our release from the Nigeria Police force Ondo state command.

I want to assure ilaje and ese odo local govt student that when our agreement with the chief of staff to the Governor fails to yield meaningful result (i.e, receiving bank alert latest on tuesday) then we are going to activate our plan B against the osopadec chairman and Mr. Governor.

Dare to struggle, Dare to win

Signed by
COMR. Olowoparija Segun
FELGOS NATIONAL PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY COALITION OF ONDO STATE 18 LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDENT NATIONAL PRESIDENT"

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/09/fayose-writes-nsa-blames-fg-for-prison-congestion/

Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/09/fayose-writes-nsa-blames-fg-for-prison-congestion/

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused the Federal Government and its law enforcement agencies of contributing to the problem of prison congestion in the country through what he described as “executive rascality.”

He, however, called on the office of the National Security Adviser to critically appraise the nefarious activities of the security and law enforcement agencies, saying apart from constituting an infraction on the fundamental rights of citizens guaranteed under the constitution, they also contribute to the perennial problem of prison congestion in the country.

Fayose’s position was contained in his response to a letter by the NSA, Maj. Gen. B.M. Mungonu (retd.), to state governors with reference number NSA/601/A and dated January 16, 2017 on the need to facilitate quick decongestion of Nigerian prisons.

The NSA was said to have attributed the problem bedevilling the administration of justice in Nigeria to congestion of prisons by awaiting trial suspects and condemned convicts.

But Fayose, in his reply personally signed by him and obtained by journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, said that agencies of the Federal Government, including the police, the Department of State Services and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrest and detain innocent citizens and perceived opponents of the state for flimsy reasons and on malicious, spurious and unfounded allegations.

According to him, many Nigerians have been languishing in prisons without any reprieve because of alleged trumped-up charges of heinous offences preferred against them by these agencies of state.

He said, “Specifically, the controversial arrests and continued detention of Messers Nnamdi Kanu, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) and Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, among several others, and the flagrant disregard and disobedience to court orders directing their release from prison by security and law enforcement agencies are not only unjust, immoral and detestable but constitute an affront to the rule of law and a rape of democracy.

“Your inaction or failure to address the above-mentioned acts of executive rascality and lawlessness will definitely undermine and belie your sincere concern and genuine commitment to the decongestion of the prisons as stated in your letter.”

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According to Ifere Paul, a Facebook user and staff at Presidential Villa, Abuja, police in Calabar, Cross Rivers State have released a man previously paraded with ammunition. Here is his post.

"The police in Calabar, Cross River State capital has released a man they arrested previously with a gun and live ammunition.

According to reports from concern citizens, the young man seen in this picture was paraded with the gun, was released after police collected monies from his relatives as bail.

It is sad that criminal elements like this are arrested and released to freely roam the streets, kidnapping, robbing, and sexually molesting their weaker victims at gun points."[url]Source

According to Ifere Paul, a Facebook user and staff at Presidential Villa, Abuja, police in Calabar, Cross Rivers State have released a man previously paraded with ammunition. Here is his post.

"The police in Calabar, Cross River State capital has released a man they arrested previously with a gun and live ammunition.

According to reports from concern citizens, the young man seen in this picture was paraded with the gun, was released after police collected monies from his relatives as bail.

It is sad that criminal elements like this are arrested and released to freely roam the streets, kidnapping, robbing, and sexually molesting their weaker victims at gun points."[/url]Source

According to Ifere Paul, a Facebook user and staff at Presidential Villa, Abuja, police in Calabar, Cross Rivers State have released a man previously paraded with ammunition. Here is his post.

"The police in Calabar, Cross River State capital has released a man they arrested previously with a gun and live ammunition.

According to reports from concern citizens, the young man seen in this picture was paraded with the gun, was released after police collected monies from his relatives as bail.

It is sad that criminal elements like this are arrested and released to freely roam the streets, kidnapping, robbing, and sexually molesting their weaker victims at gun points."

CC: Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/08/popular-motor-park-gutted-by-fire-in-makurdi-benue-state/

Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/08/popular-motor-park-gutted-by-fire-in-makurdi-benue-state/

Properties worth millions of naira got burnt in Makurdi, Benue Sate, when the popular North Bank Motor park was razed down by fire yesterday night. According to reports reaching Towncrieronline.net, buildings containing shops and goods were affected in the inferno.

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/07/top-civil-servant-burns-nieces-legs-with-hot-stone-in-kogi/

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/07/top-civil-servant-burns-nieces-legs-with-hot-stone-in-kogi/

If men and women were God, it would be difficult to stay alive. This saying was proven true in Kogi State, where a woman burnt her niece with a hot stone repeatedly for having the dream of going to school. A Facebook user, Usman, shared the pathetic story a few hours ago. Read what he wrote,

"A very high level of a case of child abuse committed by Mrs Rebecca Omacho to the daughter of her sister by name Favor who stay with her. Mrs Rebecca is the executive secretary kogi state scholarship board, she decided to maltreated favor by putting stone in the fire and after the stone get hot, she pulled it out with a rag and placed the hot stone on favors leg just because she stop favor from going to the school she have been attending and keep her indoor permanently but little favor was said to have defiled the order and scale through the house fence to attend school class, it was when she return home that this wicked and evil woman decided to maltreated her for disobeying her instructions. What a wicked world? I was also surprise seeing the wicked woman begging for cover up at the ministry of women affairs and social development, that exposing her to the public will dent her carrier in the service since she only have one more year to retire but her plea was ignore by the authority of women affairs and social development ministry, while the case was later report to the police for proper investigation and documentation but before them the accused run away from the said ministry were the case was brought for interrogation by members of community life advancement project ( CLAP). Am also appealing to state government to take care of little favor because she is seriously in need of medical assistant."

Source:http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/07/4-bedroom-flat-burnt-down-by-mysterious-fire-at-eleme-rivers-state/

A Facebook user shared this post about a fire that razed a 4-bedroom apartment at Eleme LGA in Rivers State. The Facebook user wrote:

The four Bedroom flat of a strong Wikerian, member of NEW Media Team, was burnt down today in Eleme LGA. Am calling on the security agencies to investigate this incident to a logical conclusion.




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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/06/man-escapes-death-after-car-rams-into-a-herd-of-cows-in-yenagoa/

Source:http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/06/man-escapes-death-after-car-rams-into-a-herd-of-cows-in-yenagoa/

Wonders, they say, shall never end. While Nigerians are crying about the activities of Fulani herdsmen, no one can envisage people are also at the mercy of their cows. According to a story shared on Facebook by Swamp Area News, this is the also the case, when a man rammed his car into a herd of cows, sustaining injuries. Here is the post:

No fewer than five cows lost their lives and two others badly injured last night at the Opolo area of Sani Abacha Expressway in Yenagoa, when a car accidentally rammed into hundreds of cows that were freely occupying the highway.

An unconfirmed report has it that the driver of the car who also sustained several injuries managed to remove his car which still has shattered pieces of it on the accident scene, & is now responding to treatment in an undisclosed hospital.

It could be recalled that the Governor of Bayelsa State recently inaugurated a Cattle Management Committee to check the movement of cattle in the State, and provided hectares of land for cattle rearers, but herdsmen are still roaming the street freely with their cattle.

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/06/48-year-old-businessman-abducted-in-bayelsa-regains-freedom/

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Source:http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/06/48-year-old-businessman-abducted-in-bayelsa-regains-freedom/

The rate of kidnapping in the country has escalated, and no one seems not to know what to do. Here is a case of another incident in Bayelsa, told through a press release circulated by the chief press secretary of Brass Local Government Council in Bayelsa State.

ABDUCTED 48YRS OLD BAYELSA BUSINESSMAN REGAINS FREEDOM

Mr. Loveday Lucky, the kidnapped 48years old Businessman based in Sagana town in Brass Local Government area of Bayelsa State has regain his freedom from kidnappers' den.
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Mr. Loveday Lucky was kidnapped in his hometown, Sangana, on Saturday, 28th January, 2017 at about 10:45pm by unknown gunmen and was released Sunday morning around Azuzuama axis of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.

Lucky, who was released with machete marks on his back and stab injuries on both hands, was received and taken into custody by the Chairman of Brass Local Government Council, Hon. Bello Bina.

Hon. Bello Bina ,while confirming the development, warned youths in the area to shun kidnapping, adding that any culprit caught will face the full wrath of the law.

Hon. Bina ‎said that it is not only illegal but devilish for anybody to kidnap a fellow human for selfish gains.
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According to him: "Brass LGA is not a safe haven for Kidnappers or any criminally-minded youth. And I can assure you that Security agents are on red alert."

The Council Boss equally warned youths from neighboring LGAs that come to perpetrate crime in the area to desist from the act.

"We are aware that most of the abductors and sea pirates that have been disturbing the area are youths from other LGAs that come to carry out the dastardly acts in order to give Brass a bad name.

"We will not rest until the criminals that kidnapped Loveday and any other person in Brass LGA are brought to book.

"They cannot hide. Security agents have already swung into action and they will soon apprehend the abductors in their hideouts and prosecute them accordingly," Bello stated‎

Mienpamo Onitsha Saint
Chief Press Secretary
To the Chairman, Brass LGA.

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Source: http://towncrieronline.net/2017/02/02/petition-poster-for-izu-joseph-footballer-allegedly-killed-by-jtf/