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Entire police unit resigns after two cops’ suspension
June 6, 2020
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Buffalo Police Cops push down a protester, Gugino. Sourced by The Advocate News. An entire unit of the Buffalo Police Department resigned from their assignments Friday after two officers were suspended amid outcry over video showing officers shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, according to the Buffalo News and other media outlets. All 57 of the members of the department’s Emergency Response Team resigned from the unit, which responds to riots and other crowd control situations, according to the…

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HURILAWS, WCADP call for worldwide moratorium on death penalty over COVID-19 pandemic
June 4, 2020
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By Editor. 6/6/2020. The Human Rights Law Service (HURILAWS) and the World Coalition Against Death Penalty (WCADP), in a joint statement signed by HURILAWS programmes coordinator, Collins Okeke and WCADP director, Aurelie Placais have called for a worldwide moratorium on death penalty particularly at this ravaging period of COVID-19 pandemic. The statement released today called on all countries that still use the death penalty to impose a moratorium on death sentences and executions on the ground that fair trials…

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‘Ministerial blackmail: Lai’s lie against South East’
June 3, 2020
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Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. OPINION. By Citizens United Against Political Injustice.Ordinarily I’m not the type that pay attention to noise makers, talk more of airing my opinion to their lousy tones.However as a patriotic Nigerian with a high sense of justice, fairness and equity, I can’t fold my arms while others try to tear apart the fabric of our unity in the name of politics or whatever ill notion they harbour in their minds, thereby threatening…

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Attempted kidnap of seven months old baby foiled by neighbours
June 3, 2020
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Kidnappers in action. By our Correspondent in Abakaliki.A seven months old baby identified as Chizaram Nnaluo, was kidnapped at  Aniekwena Street, in Abakaliki on Saturday, May 23, 2020 by hoodlums who invaded the place shooting sporadically into the air to scare people away.As they succeeded in scaring people away, they rushed into the room where the toddler was lying peacefully and took him, jumped into already packed motorcycle and sped off.But luck ran out on them when neighbours summoned…

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Two South Eastern states up in arms against each other over boundary dispute
June 1, 2020
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Gov Umahi of Ebonyi State. By our Correspondent. Gov Ikpeazu of Abia State. Two South Eastern states of Abia and Ebonyi have taken up arms against each other to forcefully claim a disputed farm land at the border separating the two states. On Saturday, May 30, 2020 war broke out between the communities of both states that inhabit the border areas of the states in which so many people allegedly sustained gunshot wounds while others were abducted as hostages…

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Buhari approves two weeks extension of eased lockdown
May 19, 2020
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President Buhari. By Editor. 18/5/2020. The Federal Government, on Monday, said the recent order of President Muhammadu Buhari, on gradual ease of lockdown will remain in force for another two weeks. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the daily briefing of the task force in Abuja. Buhari had on April 27, announced a “phased and gradual easing” of the lockdown in the…

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Umahi decries dearth of medical personnel at COVID-19 treatment centres
May 18, 2020
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Gov Umahi. By our Correspondent in Abakaliki. Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi, has decried the dearth of medical personnel managing the novel coronavirus in the country, and called for a better deployment of more professional doctors and other health workers to COVID-19 treatment centres to assist in the management of the upsurge of patients. Umahi made this known while delivering valuable palliatives and personal protective equipment, (PPE), to doctors and health workers managing  COVID-19 patients at the Unity Square Treatment…

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A divorced wife is entitled to stay put at ex-husband’s house if she so desires, court rules
May 17, 2020
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By Editor. 17/5/2020. COURT JUDGMENT. A woman that has children for her husband and had married him before a family house is built has the right to live in the house with her children even after divorce under the provisions of the Married Woman Property Act 1882, a court held on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State.The belief that patriarchy is so entrenched in the Nigerian system and women have no rights even under the law has been proved to…

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Abide by NJC directives on shutdown, CJN tells heads of courts
May 12, 2020
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CJN Tanko Muhammad. By Editor. 12/5/2020. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Honorable Justice Tanko Muhammad, has directed all heads of courts to abide by earlier directives issued by the NJC Committee at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. In a circular obtained by BarristerNG, the CJN noted that following the easing of the lockdown, some courts, without awaiting the outcome of the NJC Committee, have resumed and continued to conduct proceedings as if normalcy has been restored. The CJN…

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Ebonyi govt reopens sealed First Bank of Nigeria Plc
May 12, 2020
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By Our Correspondent.The Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi has ordered the immediate reopening of Eke Market branch of First Bank of Nigeria Plc in Ebonyi State earlier sealed by the coordinator of Afikpo North Development Centre of COVID-19 Taskforce.Speaking with journalists in Abakaliki, Governor Umahi stated that the coordinator never sought his permission or that of his Deputy, Barr. Kelechi Igwe before sealing the bank.Governor Umahi who expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision noted that the coordinator would have…

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