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Offa Robbery: Court Refuses To Grant Request For Post Mortem Of Suspect’s Body

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Justice Salman  of the state High Court, Ilorin, has refused the request to exhume the body of the principal suspect in the April 5, 2018 Offa robbery,  Michael Adikwu , for post-mortem. VOUCHER ENTERTAINMENT recalls that the suspect had allegedly died in police custody while investigation was still on-going on the case. The accused,  Ayoade Akinnibosun (first accused person), Ibikunle Ogunleye  (the second accused person),  Adeola Abraham ( third accused person),  Salaudeen Azeez ( fourth accused person)  and Niyi Ogundiran  (fifth accused person) were in court. T he  first, second and third accused persons had at the last adjourned date accused the police of shooting them in the legs to instill fear in them before extracting a statement from them,   Naija News  reports. They alleged that the police shot dead Adikwu while in their custody, contrary to the police’s claim that he died of an ailment in hospital. As a result, defence counsel  Mathias Emeribe  said:  “In vi

BREAKING: Tribunal declares PDP’s Adeleke winner of Osun governorship election

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The Election Petitions Tribunal set up for the 2018 governorship election in Osun State has declared Ademola Adeleke winner of the election. The three-man panel said during its ruling in Abuja Friday afternoon that the rerun election that held on September 27 was illegal. The tribunal therefore deducted the votes scored by the APC candidate Gboyega Oyetola at the rerun illegal. The tribunal said Mr Adeleke won the election at the first ballot on September 22, and the rerun that INEC devised to reach a final conclusion a week later was illegal. The ruling could affect several results from the 2019 elections, where INEC had declared results in several states inconclusive and ordered rerun. The reruns would hold on Saturday. Details shortly.

DID YOU KNOW

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Did  you know that? 1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction company and cost £5 million. 2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from University of Port-Harcourt. 3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which means “The Mountain of Death”. 4. There are 196 countries in the world and at least one Igbo person from Nigeria lives in every one of them. 5. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’, Portuguese and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both country’s ships traded slaves from the Bight of Benin. 6. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/Heads of State since it was founded in 1921 in Katsina. 7. Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben Adekunle at Regular Officers Special Training School, Ghana. Both ‘fought’ their teacher during the civil war 8. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960,

MORE PICTURES FROM THE RESCUE OPERATIONS OF THE COLLAPSED BUILDING

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A four-storey building at Mercy Street, Ita Faaji, Lagos Island, Lagos collapsed yesterday. The third floor of the building accommodates a nursery and primary school. Emergency and rescue personnel are seen at the site of a building which collapsed in Lagos on March 13, 2019. – At least 10 children were among scores of people missing on March 13, 2019 after a four-storey building collapsed in Lagos, with rescuers trying to reach them through the roof of the damaged structure. The children were attending a nursery and primary school on the top floor of the residential building when the structure collapsed. Police said they believed scores of people were trapped under the rubble. (Photo/ AFP)

CONFIRMED: Full Names Of The Survivors Of Lagos Island School Building Collapse

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The victims, now in stable condition, comprise 22 females, 17 males a nd two persons whose gender was not listed. A t least 41 people have survived the bulding collapse involving Ohen Nursery and Primary School, Ita Faji, Lagos Island, Lagos, SaharaReporters can confirm. The list of survivors, obtained by Voucher Entertainment on Wednesday evening, contains 41 names, five of whom are unnamed. All of them are in stable condition. The survivors comprise 22 females, 17 males and two persons whose gender was not listed. Two teachers, three adults were clearly stated, while the 36 other victims are assumed to be children. At least 12 persons, including schoolchildren, have been confirmed dead, but with rescue efforts still ongoing at the scene of the incident, the figures of both survivors and the dead could yet rise.   THE LIST

SEE THE FACE OF WHO BROKE PROPHET JOSHUA IGINLA'S HOME --- STELLA ZIMASA

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Prophet Joshua Iginla,the Senior Pastor of Champions Royal Assembly in Church on Sunday March 3,2019 announced that his Marriage to Yemisi Iginla had crashed because he made the mistake of having a baby mama ...... His confessional announcement went viral on Monday March 4th.... The Prophet however forgot to add that he married his baby mama as far back as October 2014 in a Civil Marriage and that they are pregnant with their second child...They have a first child named Rhema. The Baby Mama Stella Zimasa Ndamase Iginla who is from South Africa is whispered to be ''so rich she does not know what to do with money''. Follow this BLOG to get full gist as it unveils soon