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Police fire tear gas as new French demonstrations kick off
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Police fire tear gas as new French demonstrations kick off

– Protest against far-right party – Adding to tensions, far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) party was holding a weekend congress in the central city of Orleans to kick off her campaign for elections in six months to choose President Emmanuel Macron’s successor. Thousands of people yelling anti-fascist slogans marched on Saturday against Le Pen, and also against Macron, a pro-business centrist leader.

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#EndSARS: Cry of justice for victims louder six years after
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#EndSARS: Cry of justice for victims louder six years after

Sunday Vanguard recalls that the #EndSARS protests were a series of nationwide demonstrations that erupted in Nigeria in October 2020 against police brutality, extortion, torture, unlawful arrests and extrajudicial killings allegedly committed by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the Nigeria Police Force established to combat armed robbery and other violent crimes. Nigerians deserve evidence of transformation — CISLAC Speaking with Sunday Vanguard, Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Rafsanjani, said Nigerians deserved evidence of…

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Police bust money laundering networks involved in $2m fraud, arrest 8
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Police bust money laundering networks involved in $2m fraud, arrest 8

‘The intelligence indicated that social media accounts linked to a suspected transnational criminal network involved in fraudulent investment schemes targeting victims in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia and other jurisdictions were being operated from locations within Delta State, Nigeria. “Similarly, Edema Bright, a 300-level student at Delta State University, engaged in sextortion and cryptocurrency fraud targeting victims in Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Canada and other jurisdictions.

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Police warn against paying for bail
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Police warn against paying for bail

The Nigeria Police Force has warned members of the public against paying money to secure bail for themselves or their relatives, saying both the giver and receiver of such payments risk arrest and prosecution. The Head of the Complaint Response Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Force Headquarters, Abuja, Awuf Jonah, stated this on Friday

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Okpebholo threatens to sign death warrant of condemned kidnappers, cultists if …
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Okpebholo threatens to sign death warrant of condemned kidnappers, cultists if …

By Ozioruva Aliu, BENIN CITY Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has said he would not hesitate to sign the death of the four convicted Vegetable Market kidnappers if they did not appeal against the judgment within the stipulated time. An Edo State Special Criminal Court on September 29 2026 sentenced four defendants to death for the abduction of a woman at the Vegetable Market along Airport Road, Benin City.

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Woman killed, two injured on Plateau farm
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Woman killed, two injured on Plateau farm

By Golok Nanmwa, Jos A woman has been killed, while two others sustained injuries while harvesting groundnuts on a farm at Gwom-Ajang, Foron District, in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. Ezekiel Peter Bini, Chairman, Coalition of Indigenous Youth Nationalities, Plateau State; Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, President, Berom Youth Moulder-Association; Amb.

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