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EFCC Arrests Former Assembly Speaker, 14 others for Alleged Money Laundering

News

Operatives of the Makurdi Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday June 17, 2025 arrested a former Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Mr. Moses Thomas Sule and 14 other members for alleged money laundering. The 14 members are: Gwottson Fom, Sani Abubakar, Jwe Philip Gwom, Thomas Dantong, Happiness Mathew Akawu, Cornelius Dotyok and Agbalak Ibrahim. Other members are: Danjuma Azi, Fwangje Bala Ndat, Salome Tanimu Wanglet, Namba Rimuyat, Nimchak Rims, Ishaku Maren and Paul Datugun. The former legislators were arrested following claims by some concerned citizens of the state against them for…

Jun

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2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Mbappé Hospitalized At Club World Cup

Sports

Kylian Mbappé has been admitted to hospital with acute gastroenteritis, Real Madrid said. The forward missed the team’s opening game of the Club World Cup against Al-Hilal, which ended in a 1-1 draw on Wednesday. “Our player Kylian Mbappé is suffering from an acute case of gastroenteritis and has been admitted to hospital in order to undergo a series of tests and follow the appropriate course of treatment,” Madrid said in a statement. A club source said Mbappé, who was taken to hospital on Wednesday, had been isolated from his teammates since Tuesday and was considered out of the group…

Jun

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2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Pro-vulnerable Children’s Group Urges Wike To End Ongoing Strike in Schools, Health Centres

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*To Visit FCT Minister Soon By Prosper Okoye Association for Orphans and Vulnerable Children NGOs in Nigeria (AONN), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, has urged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to urgently intervene in the ongoing strike by primary school teachers and primary healthcare workers in Abuja, Nigeria's capital. The call was made during the association’s quarterly meeting in Abuja. Teachers under the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) resumed an indefinite strike on March 24, 2025, over the non-payment of the ₦70,000 minimum wage. Similarly, primary healthcare workers under the Nigeria Union of Local Government…

Jun

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2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Israel-Iran Conflict: Resolve To Kill Ayatollah Khamenei Thickens

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Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, said today (Thursday, June 19) that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “can no longer be allowed to exist” after Soroka hospital in southern Israel was hit during an Iranian missile attack, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. Katz told journalists in Holon near Tel Aviv: "Khamenei openly declares that he wants Israel destroyed – he personally gives the order to fire on hospitals. He considers the destruction of the state of Israel to be a goal, "Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist." At Keast 240 Wounded By Iranian Missile Strikes The Associated…

Jun

19

2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Tinubu’s Visit: Alia Applauds President On Directive To CDS, IGP Over Criminal Herdsmen

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By Sam Tyav, Makurdi Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has appreciated President Bola Tinubu for his visit, yesterday, to the crises-strewn state following the killings at Yelwata town in Guma Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Governor Alia also expressed strong belief on the President's assurance to work with the State Government to fashion out a framework to usher lasting peace in the North-Central State. A statement by the governor's Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Tersoo Kula, said the Governor also thumbed up the President's directives to security agencies to ensure the criminals who perpetrated the Yelwata and similar gruesome…

Jun

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2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Aniocha South APC Threatens Spokesman With Disciplinary Measures

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*'You Lack Authority To Speak For Us Over Ned Nwoko' Aniocha South Local Government Area (LGA) branch of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, South-South Nigeria, has slammed the party's branch Publicity Secretary, Prince P.C. Izediunor, over certain goings-on in the party. A press statement signed by the branch Secretary, Mr Sunday Ashibuogwu, berated the spokesman for taking a stand allegedly contrary to the party's general position on the re-election bid of Senator Ned Nwoko, who represents Delta North in the Senate. Apparently, the party's LG branch stands opposed to the senator's second term aspiration. Accusing the…

Jun

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2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Israel-Iran Conflict, Day 7: Kill Khamenei,Face Hell -Iraq’s Ayatollah Sistani Warns U.S

Foreign

*As Iran Hits Israeli Hospital *Trump Mulls Deployment Of Extraordinary Military Weapon Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, warned against targeting Iran’s leadership and said that the Iran-Israel war could plunge the whole region into chaos, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. Sistani said in a statement on Thursday,June 19, that any targeting of Iran’s “supreme religious and political leadership” would have “dire consequences on the region." He warned that it could spark “widespread chaos that would exacerbate the suffering of its [the region’s] people and severely harm everyone’s interests." Sistani urged the international community to “make every effort to…

Jun

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2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Benue Bloodfests: Tinubu Sad Over Killings, Says Not Voted Into Office For Burials But To Enhance Lives

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*Tor Tiv Challenges Notion Of Coexisting With Herders, Likens It To Living With Warriors By Sam Tyav, Makurdi President Bola Tinubu has assured that he would work with other stakeholders to bring lasting peace to Benue State in particular and Nigeria generally. Speaking in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, during a town hall meeting with stakeholders in the state, President Tinubu, who commiserated with the government and people of the state over the unrelenting killings, noted that his administration was interested in unity and peace of the people, insisting that Federal Government would restore permanent peace in the land. The…

Jun

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2025

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Kano Govt Steps Up Efforts To End Open Defecation

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By Sani Bala Karo, Kano In a spirited move by Kano State Government to rid the state of open defecation habit, the state, through its Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA), distributed more sanitation and campaign materials to six Local Governments (LGs), thus coming closer to achieving the enviable status of being Open Defecation-Free (ODF). The LGs are Doguwa, Tudun Wada, Sumaila, Bebeji, Bunkure and Tofa. Speaking during the presentation, Managing Director (MD) of the Agency, Engr. Shamwilu Abdulkadir Isa called on people of the state to continue to imbibe the culture of our decent ways and manners of…

Jun

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2025

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By Felix Duru Mbah

Israel-Iran Conflict, Day 6: We’ll Not Surrender -Khamenei, Threatens US

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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected United States (U.S) calls for surrender and warned that joining the war would lead to “irreparable damage”, as Israel ramped up rhetoric about regime change and again ordered civilians to evacuate a district in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Khamenei added that Israel made a “huge mistake” by launching the war, in his first comments since last Friday. He said in a statement read out by a presenter on state TV: "Intelligent people who know Iran, the Iranian nation, and its history will never speak to this nation in threatening language because the Iranian…