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  Twitter user @SamSoja, this morning, shared the story of how EFCC officials in Kwara state, within two days, helped his father recover the money a mortgage bank almost duped him of. Continue to read the tweets below...

Four members of an armed robbery gang suspected to have attacked a lodge for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at Isiokolo, Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state have been killed.   The notorious robbery gang believed to be terrorising Isiokolo and its environs, was said to have attacked the lodge few days ago, carting away valuables belonging to the defenseless corps members.   The robbers were also said to have attacked a bush bar in the neighbourhood of the lodge, causing mayhem.   But four of them met their Waterloo on Monday during a shootout with a team of operatives from Isiokolo police division of the state police command.

A Federal House of Representatives elect Garba Muhammad Butalawa, representing Kura, Madobi and Garun Mallam in Kano, has died. The Nation gathered that the Late Garba contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He died at the Prime Clinic, Lamido Crescent on Saturday at around 2:30pm, his personal driver, Balarabe Shehu Butalawa confirmed this to The Nation. The House of Reps elect died after a protracted illness.

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Kano State Police Commissioner, Muhammad Wakili of actively assisting the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to rig the governorship election in Kano state. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja that the Police Commissioner withdrew Kano state commissioner’s orderlies. “It is on record how the Kano State Police Commissioner actively assisted the opposition PDP to rig inside Kano city with the deployment of police security for Rabiu Kwankwaso loyalists while state commissioner’s orderlies were withdrawn,” he said. He added that Kano remains an APC state and that the party is confident of winning the supplementary election in the state. “The APC’s visible achievements in Kano state under Governor Abdullahi Ganduje are enough to give the party an emphatic victory in the rerun election. Again, the rerun will be mostly in APC-controlled rural areas and Nasa...

An emotional video went viral on the social media last week. In the one minute seven seconds video which was mostly circulated on WhatsApp, a fair, surpassingly beautiful lady was seen addressing the people of Kano in Hausa language. Waxing like a politician in a recorded address to teeming supporters, the lady said: “Peace be upon the good people of Kano as I bring you greetings at this time. Please, I have a message and would be glad if you could assist me pass it across to someone special…” Her message was simple but quite pellucid: “I have been under family pressure to bring a suitor for marriage but I have failed to produce one because among all my suitors there is none that I desired to spend the rest of my life with. “But to the glory of God something happened; I saw a man I neither met before nor has he seen me either and my mind is now settled.” At this point the lady’s face became brightened and beaming with seductive smiles she continued: “He is none other than Mu...

Some of the cows killed by militants in Kwall, Bassa local government area of Plateau State. Fulani leaders have alleged the killing of 81 cows and rustling of 32 by suspected local militia on Thursday, near the Collage of Accountancy in Kwall, Bassa local government area of Plateau State. Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and the Jonde Jam Fulani Youth Association of Nigeria, at the weekend, described the attack as unprovoked. MACBAN Chairman in Plateau State, Muhammad Nura Abdullahi mailed pictures of the dead cows and told journalists that 81 cows had been shot dead with others matcheted, 32 rustled while 48 were injured but eventually taken to the slaughter house to avoid further loss. Abdullahi said both Operation Safe Haven and the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Isaac Akinmoyede had been notified of the incident and had sent representatives to take records of the carcass of the cows. “OPSH sector 6 is aware and I personally re...

The Police Command in Kaduna State on Sunday vowed to fish out the attackers of Nandu village of Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State and bring them to justice. The Command Public Relations Officer, Yakubu Sabo, who made this known to News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna, said the command had mobilised operatives to the scene of the incident and taken the injured and dead to the hospital. Mr Sabo said that a joint patrol team of the Police and the Army were in the area to forestall possible break down of law and order. He added that the Commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdurrahaman, had condemn the killing and commiserated with the families of victims of the attack. According to him, Mr Abdulrahaman has advised the affected community against taking the law into their hands and to allow justice to take its course. He explained that unknown gunmen entered Nandu village on March 16, shot dead nine persons, injured two others and torched several houses. NAN

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says Nigeria as a Nation is not short of ideas, projects or money but what the country is short of is men and women of integrity in the positions of power. The Vice President said this when he spoke at a gathering of the All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters at a dinner in Abuja. “As I repeated many times during the course of the campaign that our country is not short of idea, we are not short of projects; we are not short of money either; what we are short of is integrity in office. Corruption is the major problem that our country has faced and once we are able to deal with it effectively, our country will be the great nation that it ought to be.” he said

Overweight Police officers in Thailand are currently undergoing a weight-loss training at a camp as part of a nation-wide program aptly called “Belly Destruction”.   After the success of a two-week pilot program, police stations in Thailand have begun sending their fattest officers to the Central Police Training Center in the city of Pak Chong, to take part in an intense physical activity designed to adjust the size of their bellies. Each station will periodically send two to three overweight policemen to the centre, where they will work out, ride bicycles and adopt a healthy, protein-rich diet to shed as much extra weight as possible. The Belly Destruction program started gaining attention after photos of overweight police officers taking part in the daily exercise routine went viral online. “There are so many problems if you’re a fat cop,” Senior Sgt. Maj. Sornpetch Chantarak, a dietary enforcer in the new program, said. “You work slow and move slow as you go tum...

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