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The Anambra Government on Monday confirmed that a nursing student was killed by Lassa Fever, while 65 others were being monitored. Dr Emmanuel Okafor, the Director of Public Health, State Ministry of Health, told newsmen in Awka that the deceased (name withheld) was a student in one private nursing school in Nkpor, Idemili North. Kidnapped Epe school students to return soon – AIG Okafor said that the lady was admitted at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, on June 11. According to him, she was immediately transferred to the General Hospital, Irua, in Edo for diagnosis where she…

Florentino Perez will continue as Real Madrid president after being re-elected for the next four years. The 70-year-old, who is in his second spell as president, stood unopposed for the post. On the club’s website a statement was posted confirming his re-election. “Today, 19 June, at 7:30pm, the announcement of Florentino Pérez as president of Real Madrid C.F. and its Board of Directors will take place in the presidential box at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, the statement read. Perez held the position for the first time between 2000 and 2006, a period during which Real signed Luis Figo, David Beckham…

The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 2 comprising of Lagos and Ogun States Police Commands, Mr Adamu Ibrahim on Monday assured the public especially parents of the kidnapped students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla-Epe that all hands are on deck to ensure the safe return of their wards. Speaking to Government House correspondents after a meeting with Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at Lagos House in Ikeja, Ibrahim said security agencies were working tirelessly to ensure the return of the students and reunite them with their families. He said: “Infact very soon, you will hear good…

Justice A. S. Umar of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Monday, June 19, 2017 admitted in evidence two documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, who is standing trial for alleged corruption. At the last sitting (June 14), there were arguments and counter arguments between Jibrin’s counsel, Y. C. Maikyau, SAN and counsel to the EFCC, Faruk Abdallah, on whether the documents tendered by the latter against the defendant is admissible or not. The documents are: the Appropriation Act of…

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday swore-in new Commissioners of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) with a charge on the new appointees to add value to the corporate governance, growth and all round development of the State. The Governor also swore-in members of the State’s Public Procurement Agency, Audit Service Commission, Director-General of the State’s Safety Commission and also inaugurated members of the State Science and Innovation Council. The newly sworn-in members include Professor Gabriel Olatunde Babawale and Dr. Noah Olanrewaju Lawal-Jinadu as Commissioners of LASIEC; Mr. Bolaji Miftah Are, Mrs Iyabo Elizabeth Ladipo and Mr…

Five female suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 11 in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, birthplace of the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency, police said on Monday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. But the use of female suicide bombers in public places is a tactic used by Boko Haram, which has focused on Borno during its eight-year-old insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic caliphate. Borno state police spokesman Victor Isuku said the attacks occurred on Sunday at around 08:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) in the village of Kofa, 8 km (5 miles) from the state capital…

Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, the Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has said the corporation crashed the price of diesel by 42 per cent. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, Ughamadu said diesel also known as Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), had a huge downslide over the last six months, following key strategic interventions by NNPC. “In the first quarter of 2017, retail prices of AGO, which is one of the deregulated products, shot to an all-time high of N300 per litre in major demand centres across the country. “Such unpleasant situation placed a…

The 17-year-old American Muslim girl, beaten and abducted after leaving a mosque in Virginia on Sunday by a man, has been murdered and her body found dumped in a pond. The police have arrested the man on suspicion of murder, Reuters reported. The attack spurred an outpouring of grief and horror in a Muslim community that has been gathering to pray at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque about 30 miles outside Washington in observance of the last 10 days of Ramadan. The attack happened early on Sunday after the victim and several friends walking outside the mosque got…

…releases official to head Edo Traffic Management Agency In accordance with its age long tradition of brotherhood, support and cooperation with other sister states, the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) has repositioned the traffic agencies and retraining of traffic officers in seven states across the federation. The States include Delta Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara and Rivers. While Mr. Yekeen Babatunde Bello heads the Kwara State Road Traffic Management Authority (KWARTMA), Mr. Femi Falade is in charge of the Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority (OYRTMA). Both men were seconded from LASTMA. In Delta, Ogun, Ekiti and Rivers States, LASTMA…

A Magistrate Court sitting at Igbosere, Lagos State south-west Nigeria has ordered that a lawmaker representing Edu /Moro/Patigi constituency of Kwara State at the House of Representatives, Aliyu Pategi, be remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The order of the court was made last Friday following an application filed before the court by the EFCC. The EFCC had told the judge that Pategi stood surety for a former Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, who has a pending criminal charge against her before the Federal High Court in Ibadan,…