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Auto crash: 11 die, 9 injure in Bauchi

No fewer than eleven people died in a road crash at Hawan Jaki village along the Alkaleri-Gombe road on Saturday in Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Nine others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash that involved 20 people. The accident involved a Hiace bus belonging to Yankari Express owned by the […]

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Initiate support programme for twins, OYSG urged

An appeal has gone to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to initiate a policy to support twins and families with multiple births with a view to stopping the culture of using twins to beg for alms. A twin brother, Taiwo and Kehinde Oguntoye, made the call at the 2022 World Twins Festival, an event […]

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Police Pledge to track down killers of Chinese in Ebonyi

Police in Ebonyi, on Monday, pledged that they would track down gunmen who attacked a mining site close to the state’s border with Benue on Saturday.   The assailants shot sporadically at workers in the process of which a Chinese and a policeman sustained gunshot injuries. The Chinese later died in hospital. The mining site is […]

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Security guard jailed 5 months for negligent conduct

A Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court in the Federal Capital Territory has sentenced a 24-year-old security guard, John Paul, to five months imprisonment for negligent conduct. Paul, who resides in  Kubwa, Abuja, was convicted and sentenced after pleading guilty to the charge. He, however, pleaded for leniency. The Judge, Mr Sulyman Ola, gave him an […]

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