Day: 8 August 2019

Police name officers killed by soldiers, accuse Army of lying, demand explanations

Jide Ige

The Nigeria Police Force on Thursday revealed the identities of its men killed by soldiers in Taraba on Tuesday. Three policemen and a civilian were shot dead by unidentified soldiers along the Ibi-Jalingo Road, Taraba State, on Saturday, in an incident that the Nigerians Army said was a case of mistaken identities. The Nigerian Army said the policemen and the civilian were mistaken for kidnappers, a claim that the Nigerian Police Force has rejected. The police have accused the Nigerian army of being insensitive and unpatriotic in the manner it…

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Ex-INEC boss, Iwu arraigned for N1.23bn fraud

Jide Ige

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arraigned a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Maurice Iwu, for an alleged fraud of N1.23bn. Iwu was arraigned on four counts before the Federal High Court in Lagos. In the charges, the EFCC alleged that he committed the offence in the build-up to the 2015 general elections in which President Muhammadu Buhari defeated then-incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. According to the EFCC, Iwu, between December 2014 and March 27, 2015, “aided the concealment of N1.23bn in the account of…

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Burna Boy’s ‘African Giant’ hits rooftop in UK

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‘African Giant’, Burna Boy’s latest album, has become the highest-ranking African album ever. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the globally acclaimed album debuted at number 16 on the UK albums chart. The debut was announced by Official charts through their official Twitter account. They wrote @officialcharts, “Check out this week’s Official Albums Chart, featuring the Top 40 debut of @BurnaBoy with African Giant.” The Official Charts, which are compiled by the Official Charts Company, tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the UK, separating them into the…

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Area Boy Rapes 14 year-old girl, cleaned her blood with his shirt

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A 14 year-old girl, in Ikorodu area of Lagos, has narrated how she was raped at knifepoint by a man simply identified as Dolapo in a house at Fajemisi Kokoro Abu Street in Sabo, Ikorodu area of Lagos. The incident happened around 11am on Monday. According to the victim, the incident happened while she was coming back from where she had gone to buy food for her boss in the same area where she is learning hair styling. Dolapo, it was gathered works with a gas operator on Fajemisi Kokoro…

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