Day: November 30, 2020

Recruitment scam: Deputy Controller of Prisons suspended

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Deputy Controller of Corrections, Abubakar Mohammed Sani of the Nigerian Correctional Service has been suspended from Service after he was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) over alleged recruitment scam. He was arraigned before Justice Hadiza Sabi’u Shagari of the Federal High Court Katsina on a six-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. Spokesperson of NCoS, Mr Augustine Njoku, in a statement on Monday said the Service on the approval of Civil Defence, Corrections, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) had on October 26,…

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Borno massacre: Nigerians rubbish Shehu Garba for saying farmers had no military clearance

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Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Shehu Garba got more than he bargained for, as some Nigerians lambasted him on Twitter over his comment on the Borno massacre. A lot of people felt offended with Shehu Garba’s response for saying that the farmers who were killed by Boko Haram did not obtain military clearance before going to the farm. Shehu’s comment on Monday in an interview with BBC stated that the “government is sad that this tragic incident has happened. 43 or thereabout of innocent farmworkers,…

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Daughter kills mother, cuts her body to pieces

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A woman named Mary Imewe is at present in police custody following the gruesome murder of her mother, Eka Ime. Mary was said to have killed her mother at their residence on Umoh Obot Street, off Nto Akpan Inyang in the Ikot-Ikpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The suspect also dismembered the body of her mother into different parts before she was apprehended. A report of the incident on Twitter showed videos of her carrying the butchered pieces of her mother, known as Eka Ime, in a basin.…

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Airlines increase airfares as operating costs rise

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The cost of air tickets along several routes have doubled due to the high demand for air travel in light of the rising insecurity in the country and cost of flight operations. The increase in the air tickets has caused complainants as travellers lament how they had to part with large sums of money to purchase tickets. Some of the airlines complained that they could not access foreign exchange at the official rate while the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria had increased its fees. It was gathered that, airlines are…

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