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Barely one week after the killing of 26 people in a community in Zamfara, gunmen again hit another village in the state, killing 15 people, the public relations officer of the state police command, Muhammad Shehu, has confirmed.

A 30-year-old prison Warden, Rabiu Lawal, has allegedly put a 13-year-old girl in family way, (Name withheld), who he also abducted from her guardian’s house to undergo abortion. He was a warden at the Jos prisons.

Representative Umar Bago of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday, May 31 expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari’s popularity would win the 2019 presidential elections for the All Progressives Party (APC).

No fewer than four persons died on Wednesday, May 30, in a boat accident at Akere in Ipokia local government area. Several others were said to be missing after the incident which was said to have occurred at about 11 am.

The Senate on Wednesday, May 30, summoned the controller general, Prisons, Ahmed Ja’afaru, to appear before its Committee on Interior, to explain why under-age offenders and infants should be confined with adults in prisons.

Igbo traders in Calabar, Cross River, on Wednesday, May 30, defied the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra.IPOB had earlier issued an ultimatum asking members to sit-at-home on May 30 as a mark of honour.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, May 29, enjoined state governors to embark on voter education exercise to enable Nigerians obtain their PVC to vote for the candidates of their choice in the 2019 general elections.

A leader of the United Kingdom (UK) chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ade Omole, on Tuesday, May 29, said that Olusegun Obasanjo´s criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari should be completely ignored.

Communities which own the land on which Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASCO) is built say the firm cannot take off unless their angry ancestor, egbunu akoko”, is pacified.The community leaders of Geregu and Ajaokuta disclosed this.
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