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Unpaid ‘Tax’: Bandits Kill 4, Abduct Over 100 Farmers In Niger.
Bandits have killed no fewer than four farmers and abducted over 100 others including women and children from 14 communities in Mashegu and Rafi local government areas of Niger State in the last three weeks.
According to the Daily Trust more than half of the victims were kidnapped while harvesting maize, beans, guinea corn and soya beans on their farms
Those killed were a traditional ruler, two vigilantes and one other person during an invasion in Mashegu Local Government.
Sources said the communities attacked in Mashegu included Sabon-Rijiya, Tsohon-Rami, Bakwai-Bakwai, Mulo, Kawo-Mulo, Nasarawa-Mulo, Mai-Azara, Foje, Mutun-Daya, Beji, Gidan-Malam, Bokuta, Chetaku and Gbazhi, forcing residents to flee to Ibbi town and other safer places in the local government.
1) The five disgruntled governors moved to London yesterday to decide who to support for the presidency in the general election of next year, which caused unease within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governors had ruled out working for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party’s candidate for president before they left.
2) The late Godsent Obhafuoso’s family has requested that Inspector-General of Police Usman Baba get Assistant Inspector-General of Police Zone 5 to look into their son’s 28-year-old death at the hands of a police officer. The family claimed that on August 13, 2022, a police officer was accompanying a prominent resident to the Uromi community when he opened fire during a ceremony, killing their son.
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3) In the early hours of Monday, suspected political thugs attacked the Social Democratic Party, SDP, office in Rivers State’s Tai Local Government Area. Magnus Abe, the SDP’s candidate for governor, made this statement during a press conference yesterday in Port Harcourt.
4) At a well-known timber market on Wethedral Road in Owerri, the state capital, a fire destroyed property and goods worth billions of naira. According to reports, the inferno, which broke out at 1:30 a.m. on December 24, destroyed more than 200 stores and items worth more than four billion naira.
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5) Anyone found guilty of buying votes during the elections in 2023 will face a year in prison or a fine of N500,000, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. This was stated in an interview with newsmen by Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar, the INEC Commissioner for Jigawa State. Read More
6) The Central Bank of Nigeria has placed at least 6,047 bank customers’ Bank Verification Numbers on a watch list due to possible fraudulent transactions. This information was presented in the CBN Financial Stability June 2022 report that the apex bank released.
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7) Citizens Network for Peace and Development in Nigeria (CNPDN), a well-known support group that worked for former President Goodluck Jonathan, has started grassroots mobilisation in the Southeast and the Southsouth for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
8) Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has urged Southeast politicians and businesspeople to put an end to all forms of violence and tension in the region. The message was delivered by Kanu, who has been detained by the Department of State Service (DSS) since June 2021, through his attorneys, who visited him last Thursday.
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9) On Wednesday, regular play is expected to resume in France as Kylian Mbappe and Neymar are both scheduled to play for league leaders Paris Saint-Germain as they begin their Ligue 1 season 45 days after it was suspended for the World Cup.
10) In Taraba State, kidnappers killed three kidnapped siblings and a motorcycle rider after receiving N60 million in ransom from the siblings’ father. It was discovered that the incident happened on Sunday in a forest close to Garin Dogo in the State’s Lau Local Government Area.
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