How it happened... Why I raped my friend’s teenage daughter – UNILAG lecturer

Why I raped my friend’s teenage daughter – UNILAG lecturer

For nine days, Shola (not real name) was in pain. The abdominal pain she endured felt as if a knife got stuck in her, she told Saturday PUNCH.

She was scared but she had no choice but to endure the pain since she couldn’t imagine telling her parents the unimaginable trauma she had been subjected to that led to the pains she was going through.

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APC Hails Buhari For Cleaning Up Ogoniland

Rivers state All Progressives Congress (APC) has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a better son of the Niger Delta than the immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

The state chairman of the party, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, in a statement published in Vanguard newspaper on Friday, August 7, praised Mr Buhari for fast-tracking the clean-up of Ogoniland in accordance with the report and recommendations of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

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Nigeria To Produce Arms To Fight Boko Haram

Nigeria Ministry of Defence may produce own weapons to fight the deadly Boko Haram sect according to the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari has ordered the ministry to produce a plan for the establishment of a military industrial complex for the local production of weapons for the use of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

The president was speaking through his media aide, Garba Shehu.

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Bayelsa 2015: Jonathan Endorses APC Candidate Over PDP’s

As the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa state continues to gain momentum, there are indications that former first lady Dame Patience Jonathan has surprisingly thrown her weight behind the immediate past governor of Bayelsa state Chief Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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Breaking News!! Cash crunch hits House of Reps

The cut in the budget of the National Assembly from N150bn to N120bn is beginning to hit members of the House of Representatives hard, resulting in unpaid salaries.

The 360-member legislature has not paid the June and July salaries of lawmakers.

Findings by The Chat212 on Thursday showed that the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, took hours to lament the poor financial situation of the House during a crucial meeting with his colleagues in Abuja.

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Don’t give Fashola appointment, CACOL tells Buhari

A civil society group, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to consider the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), for appointment.

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Police arraign lecturer for raping 18-year-old admission seeker

The police on Thursday arraigned a part-time lecturer, Afeez Baruwa, for allegedly raping an 18-year-old admission seeker.

PUNCH had reported on Thursday that Baruwa took the victim, who was seeking admission into the University of Lagos, Akoka, inside a study room, where he allegedly raped her.

Our correspondent had reported that the victim’s father, who belonged to the same landlords’ association with Baruwa in the Abesan, Ipaja area, had allowed his daughter to follow the suspect, on July 23, to UNILAG for an admission process.

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Vacancy - Financial Accountant Needed @ Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED)

Employer: Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED)

We are committed to growing profitably and sustainably while providing its customers with an efficient and reliable supply of power. 

To achieve this, we need passionate, motivated and smart professionals, who share our values and our vision; to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Accountant

Job ID: 158
Location: Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Department/Division: Finance Department

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Call Your Boys To Order, Community Tells IGP

Members of Ipetoro Lowa community in Ogun state have cried out to the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to rescue them from a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Yusuf Akaun, who has been conniving with landgrabbers to oppress them.

The families in this community, who addressed journalists in Lagos, Thursday, noted that they had sent a petition to the IGP over the purported oppression by their brothers over sales of landed properties.

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Job Vacancy At Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED)

Employer: Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED)

The Company:
Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED), a leading multi-million dollar Company in the Electrical Power and Construction Sectors

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Alleged Fraud: PDP Dares Amaechi To Prove Innocence

Chief Felix Obuah, the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) River state chapter has dared the former governor Rotimi Amaechi to prove his innocence following the allegations of embezzlement levelled against him.

In a statement read by Jerry Needam, spokesman for the PDP, Obuah accused the Amaechi administration of fraudulent activities, The Sun reports.

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Reactions Track Buhari's Order To Conduct Forensic Audit

It was yesterday announced that the incumbent authorities had invited the forensic audit firms to investigate the expenditure of oil money accrued on the Federation Account within the past five years.

This was made known by Edo state Governor Adams Oshiomhole who presides over the National Economic Council’s ad-hoc committee on the crude oil proceeds management.

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CP Orders Ritualists To Be Shot On Sight

Ogun state Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, yesterday, August 6, ordered ritualists to be shot on sight.

According to IReporter Online, he gave the order due to rise in cases of ritual killings in the state, while parading 23 suspected cultists, kidnappers, armed robbers and ritualists at the command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

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PDP Senators Blast Buhari For Selective Anti Corruption Crusade

Senators elected on the platform of Nigeria’s opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of selective anti corruption crusade.

The senators, in an advertorial said although it support the moves by the president to eradicate corruption on Nigeria,

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Hundreds flee as Boko Haram guns down villagers in Yobe

Boko Haram Islamists shot dead at least nine people and set homes on fire in a raid on two villages in conflict-hit northeastern Nigeria, fleeing residents told AFP on Thursday.

Villagers described how dozens of gunmen on motorbikes stormed Tadagara and Dunbulwa villages, 170 kilometres (100 miles) from Yobe state capital Damaturu, from Wednesday night through to the following morning.

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Lawyer sues Buhari, Osinbajo over assets declaration

A lawyer and  rights activist, Kabir Akingbolu, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof Yemi Osinbajo before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over allegedly failure to keep to their promise to Nigerians during their electioneering campaigns to publicly declare their assets.

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Anti-graft war: PDP senators tackle President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senators were last night engaged in a war of words over alleged biases in the administration’s war against corruption. 

The PDP senators particularly accused the administration of partisanship in the anti-graft war with allegations that security agencies were coercing election officials to rewrite reports in some states to the favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

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Buhari begins total probe of Jonathan’s govt

A total probe of the administration run by immediate past president, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is underway as the National Economic Council, NEC, Ad-hoc Committee on the Management

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B’Haram terrorists’ ability to confront military now non-existent – Minimah

Immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah (rtd) has declared that his actions of sanctioning hundreds of soldiers who reverted to deserting the force,

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Senate c’ttee queries DSS over interference in Rivers election petition

The Senate Committee on Ethics and Public Petitions has decried the alleged involvement of the Department of State Service, DSS, in election petitions in Rivers State and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to call officials of the service to order.

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Govt to rebuild Alade Market with N6.9 billion

Govt to rebuild Alade Market with N6.9 billion

Notwithstanding the protest by over 500 shop owners, the Lagos State government has said there is no going back on the demolition and redevelopment of the popular Alade Market, Ikeja, Lagos, into a mega shopping mall.

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You won't believe what THE NIGERIA POLICE DID THIS TIME... IN EDO STATE

You won't believe what THE NIGERIA POLICE DID THIS TIME... IN EDO STATE

The story I am about to tell was recently reported to the leaders of Edo Civil Society Organisations of police unprofessional conduct on a Nigerian citizen.

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1,000 PDP members defect to APGA in Anambra

1,000 PDP members defect to APGA in Anambra

In the eastern Nigeria At least 1,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra.

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