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Abiola’s Sons Sue Lagos Police Commissioner Over Unlawful Detention as it was reveal that suspected robbers raided the Lagos mansion of the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola (M.K.O Abiola) and went away with property worth millions of naira. Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu. Two sons of late Chief Moshood Abiola, winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, Kassim and Aliyu, who were arrested and detained over a robbery incident that took place at their father’s residence on September 2, have approached the High Court of Lagos State in the Ikeja Judicial Division for the enforcement of their fundamental rights. The robbers were said to have assessed the Toyin Street Crescent residence of the late politician through a canal and jumped over the high perimeter fence into the compound. Lagos State Commissioner of Police disclosed that some suspects including domestic staff were arrested in connection with the incident. But in a fundamental rights enforcement suit fi...

Minister of Education in Nigeria, Adamu Adamu, is currently in a hospital in Berlin, Germany, treating an undisclosed ailment. Findings revealed that the latest trip was the third time Adamu would be flown to Germany within this period of Coronavirus outbreak for medical attention. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu The minister is said to be having kidney problem and undergoing a procedure but it was not totally clear at the time of this report what particular ailment he was being treated for in the European country. In the absence of Adamu, who is expected back in the country soon, a lot of key issues in the education sector had stalled. His absence is said to have slowed down critical strategy in the reopening of schools and also escalated the recent crisis that rocked the University of Lagos where the Vice Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and Pro-Chancellor, Dr Wale Babalakin, were removed to allow for a thorough investigation into misappropriation of the institution...

Women and girls have been disproportionately hit by COVID-19 as the pandemic worsens existing gender inequality. Humanitarian crises can affect the lives of men and women differently - and the coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Women have shown better COVID-19 outcomes than men - in part thanks to an additional X chromosome and sex hormones like oestrogen, which provoke better immune responses to the virus that causes COVID-19. But any such advantage is reversed when it comes to the social and economic effects of the pandemic; here the brunt falls heaviest on women. "COVID-19 has had a devastating social and economic impact on women and girls, reversing decades of limited and fragile progress on gender equality," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned last week.  Since governments around the world shut borders and slowed economic activities to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the global economy is expected to  shrink  by more th...

Delta State College of Education,Warri Provost, Mary Edema, is currently enmeshed in an alleged fraud. Correspondents reliably gathered that she used N36m to build two toilets in the institution funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. Delta State College of Education, Provost. [Mary Edema] Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior staff of the institution told our correspondent that the two toilet projects was a fraudulent deal allegedly struck by the provost with the contractors, who handled it. "The provost concluded everything with the contractors before going into the bidding process. Warri College of Education is synonymous with corruption and other fraudulent practices.  "But even if you raise the alarm, nobody will do anything because the whole system is corrupt. Those who are supposed to take action will not cough because they have been taken care off too," he said. In a memo with reference number TETF/ES/COE/AL.2017/VOL.XVII , each of the toilet b...

The Russian hackers who breached the 2016 Democratic campaign are again involved; said the tech firm.With ties to Russia,China and Iran attempting to snoop on people and groups involved with the US 2020 presidential election; Microsoft says Image cocopyrigh mage caption Both President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden's campaigns have been targeted, Microsoft says Microsoft said it was "clear that foreign activity groups have stepped up their efforts" targeting the election. Both President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden's campaigns are in the cyber-raiders' sights. Russian hackers from the Strontium group have targeted more than 200 organisations , many of which are linked to US political parties - both Republicans and Democrats, Microsoft said in a statement. The same cyber-attackers also targeted British political parties, said Microsoft, without specifying which ones. Strontium is also known as Fancy Bear, a cyber-attack unit allegedly affiliated with Ru...