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Month: March 2017

Nursing mother brutalised at police checkpoint

FREEPRESS – Police brutality reared its ugly in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Friday when a woman, Mrs. Toyin Adeyeye, her two months, old baby, Heritage, and her younger brother, Adeniyi Dada, were allegedly beaten up and detained for…

Sani slams El-Rufai for bashing Buhari’s presidency

FREEPRESS – The Senator representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Shehu Sani, has chided the Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, for ridiculing President Muhammadu Buhari’ s administration and its policies. The Senator also called on the leadership of All Progressives…

Why Buhari can’t renominate Magu for EFCC job – Melaye

FREEPRESS – The chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, has said that following the Senate’s rejection of Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) twice, President Muhammadu…

Magu: Senators insist on his replacement

FREEPRESS – Senate’s second time rejection of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, may endanger improved relations between the Presidency and the National Assembly. This is because of the decision of some in the…

Relocation of IOCs: We have offices, operations in Niger Delta, say shell, total

FREEPRESS – International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in the country have said that the issue of relocating their headquarters to the Niger Delta region as directed by the Federal Government, does not arise, as they already have offices and operations in…

El-Rufai’s memo to Buhari: Senator wants Kaduna governor punished

FREEPRESS – Kaduna senator, Shehu Sani, has urged the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to punish Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State for allegedly leaking to reporters a memo he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr. Sani, who is the Vice-Chairman,…

Nigeria to launch new immigration regulation

FREEPRESS – The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, will on Monday officially launch Nigeria’s new Immigration Regulations, 2017 to ensure better security and Immigration in the country. Sunday James, the spokesperson for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), disclosed this in an…

Cross River Chief Judge, Ikpi-Itam dies at 63

FREEPRESS – Justice Okoi Ikpi-Itam, the Chief Judge of Cross River is dead. Aged 63 years, Ikpi-Itam died in the early hours of Saturday after a brief illness. According to the wife of the deceased, Chief Magistrate Helen Itam, her husband…

85 students emerge with First Class at FUTA convocation

FREEPRESS – No fewer than 85 graduands emerged in the First Class category at the 28th convocation of Federal University of Technology, Akure ( FUTA), on Saturday. The Vice Chancellor of FUTA, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, said 4,790 graduands of various academic…

Buhari pledges support to varsities

FREEPRESS – President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday reaffirmed the commitment of his administration to continue to support universities and other tertiary institutions to enable them produce the necessary skilled manpower. The president spoke at the 33rd convocation ceremony of Bayero University,…