Tag: Melaye
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Siege: Court rejects Melaye’s suit to order police out of residence
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday refused Senator Dino Melaye’s request that the Police should vacate his residence. Melaye had approached a court to seek for an order for the Police to leave having laid a siege on his residence since December 28th, 2018. An ex-parte application could have allowed the judge…
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Siege: Police call for reinforcement, vow not to leave till Melaye is arrested
The Police authorities have vowed not to leave Senator Dino Melaye’s residence until they arrest him. The Police have subsequently deployed over 50 additional policemen around Melaye’s residence located on 11, Sangha Street, Off Mississippi, Maitama, FCT. Findings indicate that the Police might storm the building and forcefully arrest the lawmaker who had holed up…
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Police maintain siege on Melaye’s residence, ask him to surrender for investigations
The Nigeria Police Force has asked the lawmaker representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye, to surrender himself for arrest and investigation for attempted culpable homicide. It stated that the police operatives deployed in his house with an arrest warrant will not leave his Abuja residence until they apprehended him. The Force…
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Day four: Police continue siege on Melaye’s house
The siege on the home of the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Dino Melaye, by the police, has entered its fourth day. It was gathered that contrary to the senator’s earlier claim that he was in Lagos, the Police believe he is within the building. They also believe the senator is barricaded in the…
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Siege on Melaye’s residence: Ibrahim Idris is Nigeria’s most partisan Police IG – Saraki
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has lashed out at the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the latest attempt to arrest a senator, Dino Melaye. Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu, described the invasion of the Abuja home of the senator as another instance of police being…
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Why we invaded Melaye’s Abuja residence – Police
Police officers laying siege on the residence of Dino Melaye are on a order to arrest him for his alleged involvement in an attack on their colleague, Nigeria Police has stated. In a statement by the force’ Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, on Friday, the police said the senator alongside his ‘armed thugs’ shot one…
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JUST IN: Police invade Melaye’s residence in Abuja
Information reaching TNG now has it that some police operatives in their numbers have invaded the residence of the lawmaker representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye The invasion of the lawmaker’s Abuja residence located at 11 Sangha street, off Mississippi, Maitama, took place some minutes after Midday today. Presently, the street…
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IGP planning to arrest, inject me to death – Melaye
Senator Representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has alleged that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris is planning to arrest and inject him to death with a deadly substance. Melaye made the claim in a tweet posted on his official twitter handling alleging that those to carry out the plan had already been deployed to…
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Alleged false information: FG opens case against Melaye
The Federal Government on Wednesday opened its case against Senator Dino Melaye before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja, where he is being prosecuted for charges of giving false information against the Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Mr. Edward Onoja. The prosecution led by Mr.…
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Senate bows to Melaye, Aidoko’s request, probes Kogi govt’s $500m foreign loan
The Senate on Wednesday asked its Committee on Local and Foreign Loans to investigate alleged plan by the Kogi State government to take a $500 million foreign loan. The loan plan, it was learnt, is without recourse to the National Assembly, which is empowered by law to approve such loan. Two Kogi State senators –…