Tag: Abscond
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Christian Pilgrims boss warns Christians against absconding during pilgrimage
The Executive Secretary, Plateau State- Christian Pilgrims Board, Rev. Fr. George Gorap, has warned pilgrims undergoing the 2023 Christian pilgrimage to Jordan and Israel to shun any plan to abscond while performing the pilgrimage. Gorap issued the warning on Sunday while pilgrims from Plateau, Ekiti, Osun and Kwara states were undergoing the pilgrimage exercise in…
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BREAKING: Three Kano COVID-19 patients abscond from their homes, switch-off mobile phones
Three COVID-19 patients are on the run in Kano. The Coordinator of Kano Taskforce on COVID 19, Dr Tijjani Hussain, confirmed the development on Monday. He said the three coronavirus patients disappeared from their respective houses and have been unreachable. According to him, the patients have switched off their phones with their homes deserted. He…
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2018 World Cup: 75 Nigerian football fans abscond in Russia – Official
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says 75 out of 230 stranded Nigerian Football fans absconded in Russia after the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The ministry’s Spokesperson, Tope Elias-Fatile, told newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja that the fans absconded in spite of government’s efforts to repatriate them. Mr Fatile said 230 stranded Nigerian football fans were…
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Soldier, policeman, lecturer, 97 other Nigerians abscond during pilgrimage in Israel
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Tor Uja, has said 100 Christian pilgrims absconded during the 2017 pilgrimage to Israel. Uja, who made this known while receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage on Monday in Abuja, said that no pilgrim absconded in Rome and Greece. The NCPC boss said that…
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Alleged N3.2bn fraud: Again, EFCC’s star witness in Orji Kalu’s trial absconds
The trial of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, was stalled Tuesday after the prosecution, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), failed to present one of its major witnesses. Rotimi Jacobs, counsel to the EFCC, told Mohammed Idris of a Lagos Division of the Federal High Court that the Commission had been…