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PHOTO: INFORMACION.ES A Spanish court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 15 years and five months in prison after finding him guilty of strangling his mother and then eating her. The court ruled Albert S.G. — dubbed the “cannibal of Ventas” after the district where the crime took place — was sane at the time of the events and will therefore serve his sentence in prison. It jailed him for 15 years for homicide and five months for desecration of a corpse after he chopped up his mother’s body and…

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Ekaete Bassey Miss Africa Russia representative from Nigeria Miss Udeh Chiamaka Victoria has walked the runway with a blood-stained Nigerian flag at the recently concluded Miss Africa Russia pageantry. Udeh, holding the Nigerian flag with bloodstains, walked down the runway to register solidarity after the alleged shooting at Lekki Toll Gate during the #EndSARS protest. The event was held on Sunday, June 13, 2021, in the capital of Russia, Moscow. The viral video has Miss Udeh walking while holding out the flag to the utter amazement of the audience with…

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Warns Nigeria may not remain together if FG fails to decentralize it *Notes Buhari’s comment on open grazing unfortunate *Adds: Senate, Reps not doing enough; govs too timid *Twitter ban indicates FG is enemy of democracy *Presidency keeps mum Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, said on Monday, that Nigeria is on a suicide slide, if the federal government fails to urgently address the acceleration of disintegration which started a few years ago. He also said it will be difficult for Nigeria to remain one, if the present government fails to…

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Despite many military formations in Zaria, Kaduna State, the Emir of Zazzau, Ambassador Ahmad Nuhu Bamalli has decried the continued attacks on the emirate by bandits attack. The Emir, who spoke in his palace when heads of security agencies visited him, lamented that residents had been under incessant attacks by bandits who killed and abducted people within and outside Zaria. The situation is unacceptable. We are calling on the government to arrest the situation before it gets out of control. Despite the location of military formations and training schools in…

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Military Gunships ‘Kill’ Over 1,000 Cows In Nasarawa The attacks were launched between Thursday and Sunday… Two military aircraft have killed over 1,000 cows in multiple attacks on Fulani settlements in Keana and Doma local government areas of Nasarawa State. Fulani leaders and some of the victims told Daily Trust that the attacks were launched between Thursday, June 10 and Sunday, June 13. Some young Fulani herders tending the cattle sustained injuries while over 500 cows that strayed into neighbouring Benue State have not been recovered yet, victims and witnesses…

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Ned Nwoko Former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ned Nwoko, has blamed the worsening insecurity in the country, on lack of functional local government system. The Founder of Ned Nwoko Foundation ,  gave this opinion in Abuja when he delivered  a Democracy Day lecture titled ” Getting  It Right  Ahead  of  2023″ organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)  FCT Correspondent Chapel. He called on federal  government to muster  courage and liberate  local government  from the hands of state government who have continued  to dominate and control…

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Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that the ban placed on microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria by the Federal Government indicates that the present administration is an enemy of democracy. Soyinka spoke in an interview on Arise TV on Monday. Recall that Lai Mohammed, the Minister of information and Tourism, had earlier this month announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operations in Nigeria. Mohammed said the Federal Government was forced to act because of “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining…

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Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Monday, said some people were disappointed to have seen his principal, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), ‘real life’ in interviews and broadcast last weekend. Shehu said this on NTA’s ‘Good Morning Nigeria’ programme monitored by The PUNCH. Buhari had last week featured in interviews aired on Arise TV and NTA. The President also visited Lagos State last Thursday and inaugurated some projects. He also delivered a Democracy Day Speech on June 12. When asked whether the president’s…

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From: Segun Babatunde in Bauchi The number of people who have lost their lives to the recent cholera outbreak in Bauchi State has risen to 37. It could be recalled that the immediate past Commissioner for Health in the State, Dr Aliyu Maigoro, had on 25th May, 2021, announced the outbreak, with a 37-year-old housewife who reported with the disease at the Burra General Hospital on 24th April, 2021. Maigoro disclosed then that 20 people had died from the disease, while 322 people affected were being managed.Meanwhile, the Bauchi State…

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The senate has commenced an investigation of officials of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) over alleged diversion and mismanagement of N61.1 billion. To this end, the senate has asked NSITF’s management to appear before its Committee on Public Accounts today. The committee, which is chaired by Mathew Urhoghide (Edo) is investigating the 2018 auditor general’s report. The auditor general’s report had queried the NSITF over alleged diversion of N5.5 billion from its account to Zenith bank. Also in another query, NSTIF was said to have paid N38.2 billion…

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