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A South Korean court said on Wednesday it had reopened the case of the assassination of former president Park Chung-hee by his intelligence chief. Park had ruled the country with an iron fist for more than 15 years when he was shot and killed by spy boss and trusted aide Kim Jae-gyu during a dinner…
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The House of Representatives has fixed February 26 for the public hearing of President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills. The tax bills passed through the second reading at the lower chamber last week after receiving overwhelming support from the lawmakers. Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, who announced this during plenary on Tuesday, also constituted a 36-member Special…
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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has intercepted 13 young women at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, preventing their trafficking to Baghdad, Iraq, for sexual and labor exploitation. Director-General of NAPTIP, Binta Bello, disclosed this in a statement issued by the agency’s press officer, Vincent Adekoye, on Monday. According…
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The ranks of elder statesmen who understand what Nigeria ought to be further depleted on Monday with the demise of nationalist, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. Announcing his passing, yesterday, Prof. C. C. Clark on behalf of the family said he died on Monday. He was aged 97 years.
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A man, Sunday Okoronkwo, has been sentenced to 17 years imprisonment by Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja for sexually assaulting his neighbour’s seven-year-old granddaughter.