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The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar sparked controversy over the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project to discredit it. The group’s chairman, Chief Niyi Akinsiju Cifian, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Atiku Abubakar faulted the statement by Works Minister, Dave Umahi, that the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway…
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At least 20 people consisting mostly of women and girls, have been abducted by suspected terrorists in Na-Alma village, in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The incident which occurred late Tuesday night and lasted into the early hours of Wednesday morning, happened when the gunmen stormed the community in their numbers riding on…
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje, has received support from his Local Government Area (LGA) and ward executives from Kano State. They paid Ganduje a solidarity visit on Wednesday despite alleged media reports of his purported suspension from the APC. The party added that the report of his suspension…
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A French court on Wednesday condemned a nurse to two years under house arrest for stealing more than $1.6 million from national health insurance through claims for bogus appointments. The court in the southern town of Marseille found the 67-year-old guilty of a “large-scale scam” that notably exploited the details of vulnerable migrants. From 2017…
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Dubai’s giant highways were clogged by flooding and its major airport was in chaos as the Middle East financial centre remained gridlocked on Wednesday, a day after the heaviest rains on record. Tailbacks snaked along waterlogged, six-lane expressways after up to 259.5 millimetres (10.2 inches) of rain, the most since records began 75 years ago,…
