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Mob lynches man who allegedly beheaded six-year-old boy

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A 25-year-old man was on Thursday lynched by angry residents for allegedly beheading a six-year-old boy, Mohammed Nabiyu, in Kanwa, a village in Madobi Local Government Area of Kano State. Residents told PREMIUM TIMES that the suspect, identified only as Abdullahi from Katsina State, was a former student of a Tsangaya school (Almajiri school) in … Read more

Over 1.5 million households get N20,000 each from Nigerian govt

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The National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) says over 1.5 million households in the country have benefited from the Conditional Cash Transfer programme of the federal government. The National Coordinator of NSIP, Halima Shehu, disclosed this on Saturday at a press briefing in Abuja. Mrs Shehu said the beneficiary households received N20,000 each as part of … Read more