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Dickson Okechukwu, father of an 11-year-old girl, Favour, who was recently gang-raped in Lagos, has narrated how he found her corpse in a building on Olarewaju Street, Ejigbo, after a frantic search for her. Favour, a Junior Secondary School student, was sent on an errand to buy a carton of gala for her mother around 3:00pm on Wednesday. The deceased was said to have been lured into a building on Olarewaju Street where four men took turns to rape her.  She was suspected to have been gaged in the process, apparently to avoid raising the alarm. Her devastated father described her as a brilliant girl. #JusticeForFavour Trends After 11-year-old Girl Is Raped To Death In Lagos | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/XmmdmBu7p7 pic.twitter.com/S3fXxU8JT7 — Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) October 3, 2020 He said, “She’s my daughter, she’s very brilliant. She’s a girl that has future but unfortunately some hoodlums cut her life short. The incident happened on Wednesday 30...

A yet-to-be identified man has been killed in Ondo State as supporters of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress and Eyitayo Jegede, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, again clashed ahead of the October 10 governorship election in the state. SaharaReporters gathered that the supporters of Akeredolu, who is seeking reelection, and Jegede engaged in a scuffle at Oba Nla area of Akure, the state capital, on Saturday night. The incident also left several persons injured while many vehicles were vandalised during the confrontation. Both PDP and APC have accused each other for causing the violence. The incident happened barely two weeks after eight people were injured in a clash between supporters of both parties. A car was also burnt in the clash that occurred at Oba Akoko, Akoko South-West Local Government Area of the state. See Also Politics Ondo: Three Injured As Armed Thugs Attack PDP Governorship Candidate's Convoy 0 Comments 4 Days Ag...

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To make students strictly adhere to COVID-19 guidelines, the management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has threatened to rusticate students caught violating safety guidelines on campus. The tertiary institutions through its COVID-19 technical committee listed fines and punishment for students and staff, who violate the health safety guidelines while in the school premises. The institution also put in place a ‘no face mask, no entry’ policy. In the notice, the institution stated that “as part of preparation for the resumption of school activities and prevention of further spreading of the virus in our campus, the technical committee on the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 Kwara State Polytechnic enjoins staff to observe the enabling health safety instructions of no face mas, no entry before entry at gate, offices, lecture rooms and other duty posts.” Sanctions put in place for students,.who raise false alarm, failure to wear a face mask, non-observance of social dist...

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, and Chief Bisi Akande on Saturday honoured former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, and ex-Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, during the wedding ceremony of their children in Abuja. Also present at the event were political leaders from both the APC and Peoples Democratic Party, senators, business and top shots of various state governments. SaharaReporters gathered that the wedding between Aliyu Abubakar Atiku and Fatima Ribadu took place in the at Aso Drive area of Abuja. Atiku, who bears the title of Wazirin Adamawa, is a member of the PDP, while Ribadu, once flirted with PDP, but is now a member of the APC. Politics News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3cTGIrj via EDUPEDIA

Donald Duke Former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has condemned the Nigerian Government for engaging the Chinese in the infrastructural development of the country. Duke disclosed this on Saturday at an event to celebrate Nigeria’s 60th independence anniversary. Donald Duke Chinese companies are presently involved in multiple projects across the Nigeria, comprising the construction of airport terminals, roads and rails including inner-city light rails in Abuja and Lagos. Some of the projects include a $600m project for four international airport terminals.  Construction of the three major rail lines being built across the country.  They are Lagos-Kano (with another line from Kaduna to Abuja), Lagos-Calabar rail and Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail, whose costs are put at $9bn, $11bn and $15bn, respectively. Also the 156km Lagos-Ibadan railway stretch was awarded initially at $1.5bn to a Chinese company in 2016 by the Muhammadu Buhari administration....

Video of Ex-Nigerian Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, Caught On Tape Abusing His Now Estranged Wife, Chikwendu Ex-Nigerian Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, Caught On Tape Abusing His Now Estranged Wife, Chikwendu WATCH VIDEO: Ex-Nigerian Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, Caught On Tape Abusing His Now Estranged Wife, Chikwendu CRIME Politics Scandal VIDEO NEWS Exclusive News Reports AddThis :  Featured Image :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/36Av57z via EDUPEDIA

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has said that it will be resisting plans by Chevron Nigeria Limited to sack 600 workers in the company. In addition, over 2,000 have been “constructively dismissed” and then asked to reapply for fresh jobs. The oil company has announced that it will be reducing its staff strength by 25 per cent as it is reviewing its manpower requirements due to the outbreak of Coronavirus. See Also Oil Chevron Nigeria To Sack 25 Per Cent Of Workforce 0 Comments 19 Hours Ago The oil major in a statement on Friday by its General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Esimaje Brikinn, said all employees will retain their employment until the reorganisation process wws completed. However, PENGASSAN stated that Chevron Nigeria had already dismissed over 2,000 staff with 600 of them listed for permanent dismissal. A staff of the company, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said the company took the decision following ...

The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has confirmed the killing of six suspected armed robbers specialised in car snatching in the state and Cross River. Amiengheme Andrew, Commissioner of Police, stated this while parading the robbers in Uyo, the state capital. Andrew said the police, acting on credible intelligence, ambushed the armed robbers while operating along Itu/Calabar Highway. He explained that the robbers were on their way to Abia State to sell a car they snatched from a Calabar-based medical doctor when they met a patrol team. The Commissioner said, “We acted on a credible intelligence that a six-man armed robbery gang whose specialty is car snatching in Akwa Ibom and Cross River were operating along Calabar-Itu Expressway. “On receipt of the intel, SARS operatives proceeded to the scene, on sighting the police Hilux, the hoodlums opened fire on the operatives. A gun battle ensued and the six armed robbers sustained gun wounds. “They were taken to the police hospital...

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has warned of a possible collapse of Nigeria if the Muhammadu Buhari-led government looked on while the country plunged into various insurrections and criminalities. Adeboye disclosed this on Saturday at an event to commemorate the 60th independence anniversary of Nigeria co-organised by the Redeemed Christian Church of God and the Nehemiah Leadership Institute. He said the restructuring of the country must be done “as soon as possible” to forestall a breakup of the various social-ethnic components that made up Nigeria. He proposed the adoption of a merger of the British style of government and the American system of government to pave the way for Nigeria’s future. He said, “Why can’t we have a system of government that is 100 per cent Nigerian, unique to us? For example, we started on with the British system of government, somewhere along the line, we moved over to the American system of governm...

Director-General of the NCC, John Ohireime Asein. Chairman of Governing Board of the Nigerian Copyright Commission, Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja, has again written to President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Director-General of the commission, John Asein, pending the completion of his ongoing investigation by the Code of Conduct Bureau. The NCC DG is being accused of working with Reproduction Rights Society of Nigeria, one of the private collective management organisations licensed and regulated by the NCC, under the WIPO-ABS project including receipt and disbursement of monies as well as operation of the domiciliary bank account of REPRONIG as the sole signatory. Director-General of the NCC, John Ohireime Asein. See Also Corruption HEDA Petitions Code Of Conduct Bureau To Probe DG Of Nigerian Copyright Commission, Asein 0 Comments 3 Months Ago He was also accused of paying money into the bank accounts of members of the governing board without prior agreement or resolution ...

Agboola Ajayi Agboola Ajayi, deputy governor of Ondo State and governorship candidate of Zenith Labour Party, on Saturday revealed that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu gets a security vote of N750m and an imprest of about N150m monthly. Akeredolu had during a radio programme said that his deputy receives a monthly running grant of N13m, which is the highest in the country by any deputy governor and yet betrayed him. But Ajayi in a statement by his media aide, Allen Sowore, expressed surprise that the governor could announce to the world the sum of N13m as what he gets as if it was a gift. Agboola Ajayi He said he used to collect N12m monthly, which included imprest of his office, allowances of staff, fuelling of vehicles, care of his residence and welfare of his aides. The deputy governor said it was nothing when compared to what Akeredolu and members of his family collect from the state coffers on a monthly basis. “Huge as the amount may appear, it amounts to not so much when t...

A former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), has said that he was scared when he became the nation’s military leader on August 1, 1966 at the relatively young age of 31. The retired military general became the third Nigerian Head of State and the youngest ever in August 1966.  At the time, he served the longest tenure in Nigerian history as military head of state between 1966–1975.  On July 29, 1975, while Gowon was attending an Organisation of African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda, a group of military officers led by Colonel Joe Nanven Garba announced his overthrow. The coup plotters appointed Brigadier Murtala Muhammad as new Head of State, with Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo named as his deputy. Speaking on Friday at Nigeria’s first virtual reality history competition organised by ANISZA Foundation and Gallery to commemorate its second annual anniversary, Gowon said he never planned to become Head of State. The programme was part of activities marking the...