Month: October 2020

It was a wedding that attracted top politicians  and others from all parts of the country. Paul ISHAKU, son to Taraba State Governor got wedded to his heartthrob, Linda at a Church event in Abuja today. At the event were Deputy Governors of Nasarawa and Gombe States,  former Governors, Sule Lamido, PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, Titi Atiku, wife of former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku, federal lawmakers and traditional rulers to mention a few. See pics

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INVESTIGATION: Bullets, Blood & Death: Untold Story of what happened at Lekki Toll Gate After days of extensive reporting, PREMIUM TIMES can now paint a clearer picture of what happened at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20. At about 6:45 p.m. on October 20, men in military uniform arrived at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos in three Toyota Hilux vans and almost immediately began shooting into a crowd of peaceful protesters gathered there waving the Nigerian green-and-white flag and reciting the national anthem. Protesters and other witnesses at…

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Mojisola Alli-Macaulay (Photo: LAHA) ‌ Tobi Aworinde The lawmaker representing Amuwo Odofin Constituency I at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mrs Mojisola Alli-Macaulay, has received backlash over her comments alleging that most Nigerian youths on social media are always high on drugs. Alli-Macaulay, in a video of her address at an October 26 plenary of the House on the looting and violence that trailed the #EndSARS protests, had said, “We need to begin to orientate our young people. They are high on drugs all the time, most of them. “They…

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  A renowned Zambian medical doctor, Dr. Tasila Mercy Tembo has been found murdered days after she went missing. Her estranged soldier boyfriend is suspected to be behind the brutal murder.   The decapidated body of Dr. Tembo,47, was discovered on Tuesday, October 27, in Lusaka’s Mikango Barracks area. Her family reported to the Police that she went missing on Saturday, October 24. They said she and her estranged boyfriend had a quarrel the very day she went missing. The remains of Dr. Tembo was buried on Thursday, October 29, at…

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Ganduje’s aide, Salihu Tanko Yakasai who was recently re-called after been suspended by the Kano State Governor, has hit out at President Buhari again. In a veiled reference to President Buhari, Yakasai reacted to the Zamfara killings which took place on Thursday. Calling the Government a failure for failing to safeguard lives and properties. The rate at which lives are lost with no end in sight is heartbreakingly devastating. The primary and number(one) responsibility of any government is safeguarding lives and properties, without this, consider yourself a failure. https://twitter.com/dawisu/status/1322156896132993025?s=19 (Quote)…

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Oladimeji Ramon Hearing by the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry into complaints of human rights violations by men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad continued on Saturday with a schoolteacher, Ndubuisi Obiechina, narrating to the panel how she was arrested in 2017 on a bogus allegation of being a thief and a kidnapper and tortured by SARS men till her then two-month-old pregnancy was aborted. The schoolteacher, who appeared before the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel alongside her husband, told the panel that she was detained for 22 days…

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Reverend Polycarp Zongo, a pastor of the Church of Christ in Nations, Jos, Plateau State, who was kidnapped by the Islamic State In West Africa (ISWAP) around Bauchi-Gombe road, has been released, IgbereTV reports. Pastor Zongo was released on Friday evening, October 30, through an undisclosed process, officials say. Details about his release are yet to be disclosed, however, it was gathered that he communicated with his wife to confirm his release. The pastor, who went missing while travelling to Gombe State for a conference, had appeared in a video…

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The sister of a woman, who was shot by her police officer boyfriend, has disclosed that her sister’s boyfriend had a quarrel over which television channel to watch a few days before the incident. Helen Ndubuisi said in a statement seen by SaharaReporters that the couple, who were in a relationship, had on October 5, argued over what television channel to watch. According to her, the altercation led to the end of the relationship. The officer, Sergeant Eze Aiwansobam, had on October 8, invited the girlfriend for a drink at…

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…Flavour participated in the ENDSARS protests like other celebrities—Brother By Benjamin Njoku The recent allegation levelled against popular music heavyweights, Flavour N’abania and Phyno by the Enugu State government that the duo collected the sum of N78 million from the former Deputy Senate president, Dr. Ike Ekweremmadu to tarnish the image of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi during the nationwide #ENDSARS protests are currently raising dust in many quarters. Some concerned stakeholders in the state are still wondering why the Technical Assistant to Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Media and Public Relations, Comrade…

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Bandits By Ifeanyi Nwannah – Gusau No fewer than ten people have been kidnapped in Zamfara community named Dan Kurma village, killing one of the villagers. Our correspondent can authoritatively state that one of the kidnapped victims was the wife of the district head, Hajiya Baraka Sani Usman.   According to one of the eyewitnesses, Malam Nasiru Habibu, said that the bandits stormed the village at wee hours of Thursday shooting sporadically and scaring people. Habibu explained that the armed bandits stormed the village with numerous AK47 riffles which he…

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