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    Politics FCT Polls: APC Candidate Wins Abaji LG Chairmanship Poll

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abdulrahman Ajiya, as winner of the election in Abaji Area Council. The INEC returning officer in the area, Mr. Bayo Emmanuel, who declared the results at...
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    Politics FCT Polls: INEC to Re-Conduct Elections in 2 Polling Units

    The Independent National Electoral Commission said Saturday’s council elections in the Federal Capital Territory did not hold in two polling units due to card reader failure. National Commissioner in the commission, Prof. Anthonia Simbine, made this known in Abuja on Saturday while briefing...
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    Politics INEC Postpones Area Council Polls in Abuja

    The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the Area Councils Elections in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, earlier scheduled for Saturday, March 19 to April 9 this year. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in charge of the FCT, Prof. Jacob Jatau, announced this today...
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    Metro Nigeria: 37-Year-Old Man in Court For Overturning A Pot Of Pepper Soup

    A 37-year-old man, Friday Benjamin, on Tuesday arraigned before a Gudu Upper Area Court in the Federal Capital Territory for malicious damage and overturning a pot of pepper soup at a restaurant. The Prosecutor, Urom Inah told the court that one Francis Urasi of Area 10, behind Murg Plaza...
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    Metro Nigerian Man Jailed 3 Months for Stealing Soft Drinks in Abuja

    A Gudu Upper Area Court in the FCT on Wednesday sentenced, Nebo Achebe, to three weeks imprisonment for stealing 13 cans of beverage and electric bulbs. The presiding officer, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, also gave the convict an option to a fine of N3,000. Kagarko warned the convict to desist from...
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    Metro NYSC: Corps Members Injured During Biometric Exercise in Abuja

    According to City News, scores of corps members were injured in Abuja in a stampede on Friday during a bio-metric capturing exercise for the payment of their monthly allowance. The NYSC had introduced the exercise to check cases of impersonation and other fraudulent activities during payment of...
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    Metro Policeman To Die by Hanging in Abuja

    Justice Jude Okeke of the FCT High Court on Tuesday sentenced a policeman, Samuel Tarkaa, to death for culpable homicide. Tarkka was arraigned on a count charge of intention of causing such body injury as it was likely to cause death and indeed caused the death of one Andrew Osuagwu. According...
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    Metro Nigeria's Arms Deal: Dasuki Files Fresh Application to Stop Trial

    Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki on Tuesday brought a fresh application before an FCT High Court to stop his trial over alleged diversion of arms funds. Dasuki was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a 22-counts charge. Those also arraigned...
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    Metro Fire razes 5 Shops in Abuja

    An early morning fire has razed five shops at Lugbe Market in Abuja, with property worth millions of naira destroyed, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Mr Irine Samuel, an eye-witness, told NAN that some residents of the area observed smoke billowing out of the roof of a building at...
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    Metro Snakes, Lizards and Cobwebs Take Over Abuja Varsity

    Snakes and other reptiles are threatening to take over the Abuja University of Technology, Abaji (AUTA), a visit to the expansive site of the institution, which is about 90 percent completed, has shown, DailyTrust gathered. Weeds have grown all over the new university buildings, making it a...
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    Politics Court Sacks PDP Acting Chairman, Uche Secondus

    Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the High Court of the Federal Territory (FCT), Maitama, Abuja yesterday sacked the Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus. The Nation reported that the judge, in a judgment in a suit by Ahmed Gulak, a former political adviser to...
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