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Abdulmalik Tanko, the school proprietor and main accused person in the alleged murder of five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar, has pleaded not guilty to the kidnap and murder of the young girl.

Explosives suspected to have been planted by terrorists have destroyed part of the Catholic Chapel of St. John’s College, Mutum-Biyu, headquarters of Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State.

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A 36-year-old lady, Chioma Afam, who uses multiple identities and wears hijab to evade security scrutiny has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in Benue state along with her partner, Peace Chidinma Caleb, 22, for trying to smuggle a total of 296,000 tablets of Diazepam and Exol-5 from Onitsha, Anambra state to Gombe state.

The family of Malawi’s controversial millionaire pastor, Shepherd Bushiri, have been blocked at an airport in the country as they attempted to travel to Kenya, South Africa eNCA television reports quoting a family lawyer.

Kayode Oyero Feminist Coalition, a not-for-profit organisation and one of the leading supporters of the #EndSARS campaign, says it has received over N77m cash donations in favour of the ongoing protests against brutality and extrajudicial killings by men of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force.

——-ICRC Commends NNPC For Transparent Public Bid Opening Processes The Director General of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Engr. Chidi Izurah, has commended the leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for totally driving a transparent bid opening processes for the rehabilitation of NNPC pipelines and its critical downstream infrastructure noting that NNPC is showing to the world …

By Chinedum Uwaegbulam House prices, vacancy rates to rise Policy to face stiff opposition Lack of data on properties to mar collection To increase tenancy disputes, create a black market Uneasy calm pervades the real estate sector as controversy rocks Federal Government’s stamp duty policy, which industry watchers say, could worsen the plight of tenants and home buyers.

The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Company (NDDC), Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei has collapsed in the ongoing house committee public hearing on NDDC.

A collapsed building killed a yet-to-be-identified woman at Unity Close off Adebiyi Street, in Magodo Phase 1, on Thursday.