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Former Iraqi defence minister Najah al-Shammari was briefly arrested after arriving in Sweden, where he is suspected of benefits fraud, the prosecutor investigating the case said Tuesday. Public prosecutor Jens Nilsson told AFP that Shammari was detained on Monday when he landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport since an arrest warrant had been issued. Nilsson added…
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Distraught Governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori, was in the Presidential Villa, on Tuesday, where he briefed President Bola Tinubu on the goings-on in the aftermath of Thursday’s gruesome murder of 16 soldiers in the Okuoma community of the State. “What is happening now is something that we did not bargain for, but we want…
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P Six people were killed, two of them police officers, when an articulated lorry accidentally ploughed into a police checkpoint in southern Spain early on Tuesday, the regional government said. Three other Guardia Civil police officers were also hurt in the incident, which took place around 4:30 am (0330 GMT) on a highway south of…
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The Senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial District, Shehu Buba, has condemned the killing of the Village Head of Riruwai community, Alhaji Garba Badamasi. Badamasi, the traditional leader of Riruwai in Toro Local Government Area (LGA), was kidnapped last Friday when gunmen attacked the village and his palace. The assailants did not contact any of his…
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Justice A. Liman of the Federal high court sitting in Kano has granted an exparte application restraining further action against the Patent Medicine Dealers in Kano pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit brought before it. The Sabon Gari Medicine Dealers had filed applications on enforcement of their fundamental human right over the…
