Latest News in Nigeria Today Monday 21st October 2019
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Six suspected cultists arrested in Lagos
Operatives of “Operation Crush’’ attached to Alapere Police Division in Lagos have arrested six suspected cultists.
The arrested cultists, believed to belong to the “Eiye and Aiye’’ confraternities, were arrested for their involvement in series of violent attacks in the area.
DSP Bala Elkana, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Lagos Police Command disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
Elkana said some gangsters suspected to be members of Eiye and Aiye Confraternities, had earlier engaged themselves in a battle of supremacy with dangerous weapons at Demurin area, Alapere.
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ANTI-GRAFT WAR: More former governors will be jailed soon — Sagay
Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Professor Itsejuwa Esanjumi Sagay, SAN, in this interview, speaks on the nation’s high cost of governance, why we must reverse the 70:30 budget allocation in favour of capital expenditure and the way forward for the country among others.
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Nollywood: Committee pledges credible election for Actors Guild
Steve Eboh, Nollywood actor and Chairman of National Electoral Committee of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), has pledged the committee’s commitment to ensure that the forthcoming election for the guild is credible.
Eboh, popularly known as Ajebo, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. According to him, the election is slated to take place at the 2019 National Convention of the AGN scheduled to hold on Oct.
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At least three dead in fires amid Chilean riots, flights disrupted
At least three people died in supermarket arson attacks in Chile’s capital Santiago, and soldiers shot two people during an operation to detain looters, authorities said, as protests entered their second week and intensified after a state of emergency was announced.
There was transport deadlock in the city and chaos at the international airport, where flights into and out of Santiago were suspended or canceled as crew members and airport staff were unable to get to work, the city’s governor said.
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CSO condemns Kogi State Assembly over impeachment of Deputy Gov
…says action may lead to anarchy
By Gabriel Ewepu
A Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Concerned Nigerians, CN, Sunday, condemned the Kogi State House of Assembly, over the impeachment of the Deputy Governor of the State, Simon Achuba, at the weekend.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Convener, CN, Prince Deji Adeyanju, where the action was decried and declared as impunity and illegality.
According to Adeyanju the action of the State Assembly may lead to anarchy if not called to order and do what is constitutionally acceptable.
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Egypt to press for outside mediator in Ethiopia dam dispute
Egypt will push Ethiopia this week to agree to an external mediator to help resolve a deepening dispute over a giant hydropower dam being built on Ethiopia’s Blue Nile, officials said on Sunday.?? ??
Egypt sees the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as an existential risk, fearing it will threaten scarce water supplies in Egypt and power generation at its own dam in Aswan. ?? ??
Cairo says it has exhausted efforts to reach an agreement on the conditions for operating GERD and filling the reservoir behind it, after years of three-party talks with Ethiopia and Sudan.
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Civil Society Organization wants Sylva sacked for IOCS debt claim
By Dirisu Yakubu
A Civil Society Organization, the Accountable Leadership For Better Nigerian Initiative, ALBNI, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to relieve the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva of his duties over claims by the latter that debt owed the federal government by the International Oil Companies, IOCs would be difficult to recover legitimately.
In a press release late Sunday night by ALBNI Executive Director, Remi Adebayo, the group said it was hypocritical for the Minister to have made the claim, knowing that the process of recovering the debt was in the pipeline and is legally sanctioned by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
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REVEALED: Men rent wives out to rich tourists in East Africa for income
Poverty along the Kenyan Coast is now forcing residents to rent out their spouses to rich tourists for some income, it has emerged.
To beat the rising levels of poverty, some Kenyans have been handing over their wives or husbands to the tourists who want a good time before reuniting with them after the job.
Among the persons already in the job is James Kimani, a tour guide, who says that he has been renting his wife out for such since August 2018, in pursuit for that extra coin.
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Yuletide: Nigerian Navy reads riot act to vandals, smugglers
By Emma Una – Calabar
The Nigerian Navy has warned petroleum products, thieves, smugglers and vandals to stay away from the country’s waterways as any of them caught carrying out illegal activity would be made to face the wrath of the law.
Hading the warning at the weekend in Calabar, Commodore Vincent Okeke Commander NNS Victory said with the Yuletide approaches, smugglers and vandals may want to increase their activities but the Navy is ever ready to combat their activities
Commodore Okeke who stated this while handing over eight petroleum products smugglers to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NNSC, for further investigation and prosecution said it is an economic crime to vandalise pipelines or illegally export petroleum products imported into the country and sold at subsidized rates to other counties.
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Police arrest six cultists terrorising Alapere area, Lagos
Operatives of “Operation Crush’’ attached to Alapere Police Division in Lagos have arrested six suspected cultists.
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