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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. A wave of opposition grew on Wednesday against the 50 per cent telecommunications tariff hike approved by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC and Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG described it as insensitive. They said it came…
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The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Victor Olaiya, has charged 96 newly promoted officers of the command to enhance professionalism in combating crimes and fostering positive community relations in line with international best practices. He gave the charge at the decoration ceremony of 96 newly promoted senior police officers at the command’s headquarters, Ilorin, including the…
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A man with a knife was shot dead by armed police in Redditch after “several hours” of negotiations on Christmas Eve, police have said. West Mercia Police were called to a property in Fownhope Close, Redditch, at around 2pm on Tuesday to reports of a man with a knife. Police negotiators arrived at the scene…
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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. There are reports that the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical is set to begin fuel exports to South Africa, Angola, and Namibia. Sources said the management of the 650,000-barrel per-day capacity refinery is at advanced stages of talks with the countries to start lifting fuel.…
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R&B star Temilade Openiyi, also known as Tems, has stated that she believes that she’s super famous in Nigeria. Speaking in a podcast interview with Big Boy TV in the United States, Tems said her celebrity status sometimes complicates her movements in Nigeria. She recalled almost getting mobbed while driving in Lagos last December. According…
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Good afternoon from MEZIESBLOG. Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. The pump price of petrol has gone up for the second time in three weeks, selling at N1,020 at the outlets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) in Lagos and N1,050 in Abuja. 2. The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, on…
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Enugu State Commissioner of Police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, in company of top officials of the State Government, on Saturday, visited the family of the murdered Ogene musician, Chikezie Okezie Nwamba (a.k.a. Igbo-Jah). DAILY POST recalls that the popular musician was shot dead by a policeman on Friday night. During the visit to the family of…
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Lee Hsien Yang — the younger son of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew — and his wife Lee Suet Fern are free to return to Singapore, the police said on Friday (Oct 11). “They are and have always been free to return to Singapore,” they said in response to media queries. Lee had said on Wednesday…
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Good afternoon from Meziesblog! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. Preparation for today’s Rivers State local government election almost degenerated into chaos on Friday after an angry Governor Siminialayi Fubara stormed the premises of the State Independent Electoral Commission, RISIEC, in Port Harcourt at about 1 am on Friday, alleging plot by the police…
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Last week, 20 medical students from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Jos were abducted in Otukpo, Benue State. The students, who were on their way to Enugu State for a conference, have since been rescued, with the government accounting that no ransom was paid. This is the latest of such mass abductions…
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A man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody, a state official told German television on Saturday, some 24 hours after the attack that killed three people. North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister Herbert Reul told the ARD broadcaster that he was “a bit relieved” after…
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared illegal Regulations 126 and 127 of the Nigerian Police which allows for the dismissal of an unmarried policewomen who become pregnant during their service. The three-man panel of the court also asked the respondents, the Attorney General of the Federation, the Police Service Commission and the Nigerian…
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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a gang of suspected ritualists who specialise in killing people and harvesting body parts for sale in various states. The suspects include a woman who is an Osun priestess, a community chief, an Ifa priest, an Islamic cleric, and a trado-medicine practitioner. While confirming this burst on Friday,…
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Police in riot gear have raided Columbia University and arrested pro-Palestinian protesters occupying one of its buildings. Around 30 to 40 people have been removed from the Manhattan university’s Hamilton Hall, according to police The raid came hours after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the demonstration at the Ivy League school “must end now”. He…
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A second man has died after taking an “unusually strong batch” of heroin in North Devon, police have said. The first man died as a result of taking the Class A drug on Friday and a second man, who had been admitted to hospital earlier, died on Saturday night. Devon and Cornwall Police said his…
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A teenager followed his gangster dad into crime and began gun running and drug dealing with his help. Junnaid Tufail, just 19 when he became involved, said he regarded his father Asim Tufail as his ‘role model’. Asim, 52, had spent much of his son’s childhood in jail, after previously being sentenced to 14 years…
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