Tinubu Unveils Resettlement Scheme For Scheme Victims
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President Bola Tinubu on Friday laid the foundation for the official launch of the Resettlement Scheme for Persons Impacted by Conflict to address the humanitarian crisis caused by internal displacements across Nigeria.
Tinubu was represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the at the launching of the pilot phase of the project in Tudun Biri, Kaduna State.
He said, “There couldn’t have been a better place for the take-off of this intervention than this diverse state,” according to a statement by the VP’s spokesperson, Mrs. Stanley Nkwocha.
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Gunmen Invade Bank In Delta
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Pandemonium struck in Ughelli, Delta State, on Friday when suspected armed robbers attacked a bank customer at the premises of a new-generation bank in the metropolis.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen numbering about five in a Toyota Venza, had trailed the unidentified customer to the bank premises, before shooting sporadically while attacking their target.
Witnesses said that the customer had yet to enter the banking hall when the gunmen struck and eventually made away with three ‘Ghana Must Go’ bags containing money.
Court Fixes Date To Deliver Judgement In Suit Seeking Ganduje's Removal
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The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed 18 September for judgment in a suit seeking the removal of Abdullahi Ganduje as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The judge, Inyang Ekwo, fixed the date on Friday after counsel for the plaintiff, Benjamin Davou, and lawyers to the defence adopted their processes and made their submissions for and against the case.
The plaintiff – the North Central APC Forum led by Saleh Zazzaga – had filed the suit to query the propriety of Mr Ganduje’s appointment as the chairman of the APC when he is not from the North Central geo-political zone.
Nigerian Police Arrest 24-year-old Woman For Selling Sibling For N410,000
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Awoman, Blessing Okonkwo, 24, has confessed to selling her three-year old sibling, Friday Okonkwo at the cost of N410,000 in Adamawa State, SaharaReporters has learnt.
Okonkwo, who blamed her action on the biting hardship in the country, was said to have tricked her mother and taken the kid on false pretence of enrolling him in a school in the city of Mubi, where she lived, some 40 kilometers away.
She however sold him at a price of N410,000 to a willing buyer, one Efunaya Nabufe, who trafficked him to Enugu city in the southeastern state of Enugu.