Photos: Acting president, Yemi Osinbajo, presides over today's Federal Executive Council meeting

Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo presided over the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja today June 21st. More photos after the cut...

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Navy intercepts pipeline vandals, recovers stolen petrol

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The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday said it had impounded a wooden boat laden with 90 jerry cans of stolen petrol from suspected pipeline vandals at the Pashe creek in Badagry area of Lagos State. The Commander, Forward Operating Base of the Navy in Badagry, Capt. Simon Dogo, told journalists in Lagos that the seizure was made after the vandals abandoned the boat on sighting a naval team and fled. “My patrol teams went on patrol at Pashe creek when they saw perpetrators trying to load the petroleum products in a boat for transfer to Benin Republic. “The perpetrators, on sighting the naval team, jumped into water and fled. We intercepted the boat and we discovered that 90 of over 200 of the jerry cans had been filled with petrol,” he said Dogo said that the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Ibok Ibas had zero tolerance for economic sabotage and the navy was carrying out his directives in that direction. He said smuggling activities had reduced drastically in Bad...
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Update: Authorities arrest driver, cook, security on the death of Cameroonian Catholic Bishop as case changes from suicide to murder

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Earlier this month, LIB reported the death of a Cameroonian Catholic bishop, Jean-Marie Benoît Balla whose body was found in a river, in a suspected case of Suicide. Read here. The new update reveals that security agents have arrested the Bishop's driver, the night watchman, his cook and the domestic servant who served his last supper on the fatal night as the suspected cause of death
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