Photos: Two suspects arrested for the alleged murder of an Italy-based man in Edo state, claim they were hired by his scorned ex-lover

Two suspects alleged to have gruesomely assassinated Omoruyi Okundolor, an Italy-based Nigerian man in Benin city, Edo state have been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command.

According Senior News reporter/presenter with Edo Broadcasting Service, Benin City, late Okundolor fondly called Uyi, was shot dead in his compound early this month.

"The arrested suspects were said to have confirmed that the female lover of the deceased who felt jilted contracted them for the killing. The suspects who said they were four that went for the killing named one Moses and Power as members of their gang. The female lover and the two accomplices are now at large. 

"They claimed that the plan to assassinate Omoruyi okundolor was hatched in a drinking spot at evbuotubu in Benin city. An 18 year old girl was also killed by the hoodlums when they were on their way to assassinate Omoruyi on the excuse that the young girl recognise d one of them who pulled the trigger. 

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At last, Senate passes Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)

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The Nigerian Senate has passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, the long-awaited legislation that promises broad reforms to the nation’s oil and gas industry. .
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The report on the bill, produced by the Senate joint committee on gas, petroleum (downstream) and petroleum (upstream), was presented on Thursday by Donald Alasoadura, APC-Ondo. .
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After a clause-by-clause consideration, with few amendments, the Senate approved the bill, moving a step closer to making its ambitious contents law. .
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Amongst other objectives, the petroleum bill seeks to introduce reforms that would engender transparency, while at the same time making the oil and gas sector more business-oriented and profit-drive. .
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If eventually passed by the House of Representatives and signed by the president, the bill will restructure some organisations like the NNPC and the Department of Petroleum Resources, while setting up new ones like the National Oil Company. .
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The NOC, as proposed in the bill, will be an “integrated oil and gas company operating as a fully commercial entity and will run like a private company”. .
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The bill, which has spent years in the National Assembly, is to be sent to the House for concurrence before seeking presidential assent. “I congratulate the 8th Senate with the passage of this landmark bill which has not been passed for many years,” the senate president Bukola Saraki, said Thursday

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Igbos shouldn't complain about marginalisation, they didn't invest in Buhari's campaign - Ngige

 

 

Igbos shouldn't complain about marginalisation, they didn't invest in Buhari's campaign - Ngige
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The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has asked the South-east to stop complaining of marginalisation by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
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He lamented that all his efforts to persuade the Igbo to wisely invest in Buhari’s presidential bid in 2015 failed because of lack of co-operation by many South-east leaders, who threw their weigh behind former President Goodluck Jonathan.
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“This is not a question I should answer because I’m a politician. But before these things happened, before the government of Jonathan failed, I went to all the Igbo fora to tell them that the Jonathan government will fall”, he told Thisday.
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“I went to our Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo in Enugu twice. They could not even reply to a letter written by Gen. Buhari, seeking for a meeting with them”, he added.
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Ngige, revealed how he went to Lagos and convened an Igbo stakeholders forum in William Nwodo’s house in Ikoyi, Lagos in 2014, where he analysed the voting pattern in Nigeria and told them that even if they did not want to support Buhari, they should give him 25% of their votes.
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“They refused to listen to me, and to make matter worse, there was no voting in most of the areas in the South-Sast; they just allocated 5% to APC. It was that bad, it is too late to cry when the head is off. Politics is business in a way, you invest in business and you reap profit.
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Yes, that is what it is. But all I want to tell you is that we played bad politics; we made a bad investment because they invested in the Jonathan presidency. They invested in Jonathan more than the South-South, where he hails from.
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I am not saying that is enough to marginalise them or not allow them come in but we are there. I will continue to speak for them and when there is anything to be distributed, we will make sure that the South-East gets its own portion. But they will not get excess portion.
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Even in a family where the head of the family goes to the farm to harvest his yams those who accompany the farmer to the farm get more share."

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Here Is How Kidnappers Gained Access Into Lagos School, To Abduct 6 Students. .

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Kidnappers again struck at around 5:00 a.m. this morning at Igbonla Model School, Igbonla near Epe abducting six students. .
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The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni in company of top police officers in the state led a search and rescue team to the school and adjoining waterways as well as forest in search of the gun men. .
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Source at the scene of the incident disclosed that the kidnappers used the Imeru/Iji waterway to access the swampy forest bordering the school, bore a hole on a part of the school fence to gain entrance into the school compound. .
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Mr. Owoseni, who was at the school very early in the morning, appealed for calmness from parents and guardian of the kidnapped school children to enable security agencies focus on rescue operations. .
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The CP further added that security agencies were intensifying efforts towards ensuring safety and security of the good people of Lagos, stressing that useful information from members of the public would be invaluable to the team’s efforts.

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Teachers to now earn higher salaries than other workers -FG .

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The Federal Government Thursday said it is working on plans to ensure that teachers are paid salaries higher than other workers in Nigeria, TheNation reports.
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The government said increase in the salaries of teachers would help to attract the best to the teaching profession. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this at the inauguration of Governing Councils of 21 Federal Colleges of Education. .
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Adamu said government has under studied Malaysia and came to realisation that the country got it right by first taking a critical look at teaching and teacher education. .
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He said: “What did they do? They brought the whole system down and ask what do you want us to do in education. Their planning was geared towards the development of human resources. .
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In Malaysia, top percent of those who scored the highest in their equivalent of JAMB compete to be teachers. If you are a teacher in Malaysia, you are to ranked than any other worker in the country. .
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This is why you will find people with PhDs teaching in primary schools. Teachers are paid higher than any other person in Malaysia and we have made that recommendation and we are going to do that in Nigeria,” he said.

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I’II wipe out corruption in 12 months – Magu .

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The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, on Thursday said that he would end corruption in Nigeria in the next 12 months, Punchng reports.
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Magu spoke during the official opening of the Ibadan Zonal Office and Stakeholders Engagement Session, held in Iyagaku, Ibadan. He said despite the challenges being faced by the agency, the anti-corruption war had been a success. .
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Magu said, “The fight has just started and we will do it to the last. We will get them out, just give me 12 months, you will not see them again.

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