Tag: Aide
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Kogi gov places N100m bounty for information on aide’s killer
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has promised N100 million reward to anyone with information that could lead to the arrest of those that killed Malam Yusuf Adabenege, his Special Adviser on Culture and Tourism. A statement signed by Alhaji Abdulmalik Abdulkarim, Director-General, Bureau of Information Services and Grassroots Sensitisation, said that Bello made the…
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Gunmen kill Kogi gov’s aide, two others
Unidentified gunmen have assassinated the custodian of Aneku Okuku masquerade, Mr. Yusuf Adabenege, in Okene town, Kogi State. Adabenege was reportedly killed alongside two of his aides while driving on Obehira-ege road in Okene. Adabenege was at the forefront of drumming support for the reelection bid of the state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, and also…
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Offa Robbery: Release Kwara Gov’s aide or go to jail, court tells Police IG
A High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital presided over by Justice Ibrahim Yusuf, has threatened to imprison the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, for alleged contempt of court proceedings. The IGP was alleged to have disobeyed the order of the court to release Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed’s Personal Assistant on Political…
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Buhari did not veto 2018 Electoral Bill – Presidential aide
The 2018 Electoral Bill passed by the National Assembly on July 24 and forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari, is alive and awaiting assent. The National Assembly forwarded to President Buhari on August 3. Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang, gave the clarification against the backdrop of report published by…
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Police vow to arrest killers of ex-Gov. Oni’s aide
The police in Ekiti said on Monday that they would leave no stone unturned in their efforts at tracking the killers of Mr Bunmi Ojo, a former Personal Assistant to former Gov. Segun Oni. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Caleb Ikechukwu, told journalists in Ado Ekiti that those responsible for the…
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Macron’s aide suspended for hitting street protester
An aide to President Emmanuel Macron was put on two weeks compulsory leave after he was seen hitting a street protester in demonstrations in Paris in May, the French president’s spokesman said on Thursday, a decision deemed too soft by opposition leaders. Labour unions hold demonstrations every year on May Day in France, which often…
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BREAKING: Gunmen assassinate Gov Dickson’s aide [Graphic photo]
Gunmen suspected to be assassins have killed Ebikimi Okoringa, an aide of Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson. Okoringa, who was recently inaugurated as a Special Adviser to Governor Dickson was shot dead at his hometown in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state. The victim, a former Acting Chairman of the local government was attacked…
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Corruption allegations: Buhari’s minister, Shittu tags former aide ‘Judas’, ‘sinking man’
President Muhammadu Buhari’s minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu, has reacted to media reports on corruption allegations leveled on his person by his former aide, Victor Oluwadamilare. Describing Oluwadamilare as a sinking man, Shittu said some of the foreign trips he embarked upon brought benefits worth billions of naira to the country. He also rdenied the…
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Masari’s aide kills own daughter with car
There was pandemonium in Katsina on Friday as Governor Aminu Masari’s Special Assistant on Religious Affairs, Abdullahi Darma, accidentally crushed his daughter, Aisha, with his car. The incident occurred at Darma’s Katsina house while he was reversing the vehicle. Sources confirm that the governor’s aide did not know that the toddler was behind the car.…
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Davido’s aide detained over rift with airport security operatives
Security operatives attached to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport ,MMIA, Lagos confiscated 17 check-in luggage of Nigerian pop star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido after his bodyguards manhandled Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, security officials, Customs and others, on arrival at the airport from a foreign trip on Thursday. Recall that Tiwa…