NYSC redeploys corps members from Borno, Kano, Yobe, others

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The National Youth Service Corps on Thursday announced the redeployment of corps members from seven northern states.

The affected states are Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano and Yobe states.

A statement on Thursday in Abuja by the Director of Public Relations in NYSC, Mrs. Bose Aderibigbe, said the decision followed the high rate of insecurity in some parts of the North.

The corps members are part of the  2014 Batch ‘B’ Orientation Course  scheduled to commence next week Tuesday August 5, 2014.

The NYSC said due to logistic reasons, the orientation course will be conducted in two streams for different states.

1st Lady not hospitalised, pays condolence visit to FCT Minister.

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 Sahara Reporters reported a couple of days ago that First Lady Patience Jonathan had fallen ill and had been flown abroad for treatment. No presidential aide denied the report online however in what appears to be a move to dispel the report, Mama Peace made a public appearance yesterday Sunday Feb. 16th at the Abuja residence of the Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, where she commiserated with him within the death of his elder brother, Mallam Yusuf Mohammed. See more pics following the break..

Spiritualist defrauds the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed of ₦3m.”

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The State Security Service has arrested an Abuja-based car dealer, Ibrahim Takat, for allegedly conspiring with a spiritualist, identified as Nakasi Ahmadu, to defraud the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed of N3m.”

The spiritualist, Nakasi Ahmadu “used the cloned phone number to give instruction to the Chief of Staff to the minister via text message to deposit N3m into his (Takat) account number 0011141544 with Diamond Bank Plc. The amount was withdrawn the same day by the suspect.”

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Alleged Abuja Bombing: We Exploded Two Fuel Tankers In FCT – MEND

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3 weeks after it called-off what it described as planned attacks on mosques and related institutions over the bombings and killing of southerners in the North by Boko Haram insurgents, the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, claimed it struck in the early hours of Saturday in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

The militant group said it secretly attached portable military limpet explosives on two articulated petrol tanker vehicles outside the NNPC depot in Abaji, Abuja, at about 5.00 am and detonated the devices.

Sunday Vanguard could not verify the claim at press time while the media manager of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidy of the NNPC, Nasir Imodagbe, denied the bombing claim.

MESSAGE: Former FCT minister Nasir El Rufai calls Pres. Jonathan a scumbag

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