Retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, says more than five million people in the Niger Delta region have benefited from the initiative since 2009. Special Adviser to the President on amnesty, Gen. Paul Boroh (retd), who is also the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, disclosed this in […]
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A spurt in attacks by Boko Haram Islamists has claimed nearly 400 lives since April in Nigeria and Cameroon, double the figure of the previous five months, Amnesty said on Tuesday. The increasing use of suicide bombers — often young women and girls forced to carry and detonate explosives in crowded areas — has killed […]
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Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, in commemoration of this year’s Democracy Day celebration has pardoned Eleven prisoners serving jail term in the State. A statement by Commissioner for Information Kayode Akinmade in Akure yesterday said the governor’s gesture was in line with the power conferred on him by section 212 (1) of the 1999 […]
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