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February 16, 2021

South-East, South-West And North Will Be Biggest Losers If Nigeria Breaks Up, By Fredrick Nwabufo

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Our diversity should count for something. It should be our strength. We will be the biggest losers if the Nigerian enterprise is liquidated. We must make Nigeria work.

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February 16, 2021

No Plan To Increase Petrol To N170, N180, IPMAN President Says

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Okoronkwo told SaharaReporters on Tuesday while reacting to the speculations on social media that a litre of petrol could be sold for N180.

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Oil
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February 16, 2021

N69.4bn Debt: Jimoh Ibrahim Loses Bid To Vacate Order On Seized Assets

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Ibrahim, NICON Investment Ltd and Global Fleet Oil and Gas Ltd, had contended that the court granted the order in error, alleging that AMCON concealed material facts in its ex parte application leading to the seizure order.

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Politics
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February 16, 2021

Sowore@50: His Fighting Spirit Defies All Odds, Says Okei-Odumakin

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Odumakin in a release on Wednesday added that Sowore's critical stance against corruption and bad governance had pitched him many times against the Nigerian government but that he failed to give in to their demands.

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February 16, 2021

Prayers And Weapons Effective In Tackling Insecurity— CAN, MURIC React To El-Rufai's Comment That Army Doesn't Need Prayers

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The reactions came after a statement made by the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, who said Nigeria’s security agencies need superior weapons to fight insecurity and not prayers.

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February 16, 2021

Court Remands Rivers Varsity Worker For Abducting, Sexually Abusing 16-Year-Old Girl

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The 45-year-old suspect was said to have organised some boys to abduct the victim at gunpoint from Aluu in the Ikwerre Local Government Area to Rumuakwunde in the Emohua LGA of the state, where he allegedly serially abused her.

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Legal
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February 16, 2021

Omar Farouk, 13-year-old Nigerian Sentenced For Blasphemy In Kano, Relocates Abroad

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A appellate division of Kano State High Court had in January acquitted Farouk of blasphemy and quashed the 10 years imprisonment passed on him by the state’s Upper Sharia Court on August 10, 2020.

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Islam
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February 16, 2021

How Police Refused To Probe Missing Teenagers Whose Clothes Were Found Inside Lagos Creek

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A picture of one of the missing boys, Fawasi Suraju, had gone viral on social media some months ago with a note of plea attached to it.

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Police
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February 16, 2021

We'll Install CCTV Cameras On Major Highways To Curb Kidnappings—Police Affairs Minister

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The Minister said President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the project and that the Nigerian government had entered into an agreement with NPS Technology Company to fix the abandoned CCTV project.

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Police
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February 16, 2021

Bandits Learnt Kidnapping From Niger Delta Militants —Sheikh Gumi

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Gumi, who appeared on Africa Independent Television (AIT), on Tuesday, said this while defending the granting of amnesty to bandits behind violent attacks in the northern region of the country.

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Insecurity