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Enugu – The police on Friday charged five persons to an Enugu Magistrates’ Court with assault and theft.
Those arraigned were Chizoba Godwin, 65, Nwogu Aloysius, 60, Chidubem Ekwe, 25, Chukwuemeka Enwerem, 31, and Chidiebere Onyia, 43.
The accused persons from Enugu East Local Government Area were arrested for allegedly beating two police officers and stealing their property worth N41,000....

Makurdi – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue said that 33 aspirants had indicated interest to contest the governorship election on the platform of the party in 2015.
The Benue Chairman of PDP, Dr Emmanuel Agbo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi on Friday that the party’s primaries must be free and fair....

ABUJA – At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in Nigeria’s capital after thousands of panicked job-seekers stampeded during a government recruitment drive in the national stadium on Saturday.
Survivors told AFP that thousands had gathered to apply for jobs with the immigration department in the Abuja stadium....

Hundreds of thousands of applicants across the country are today writing the aptitude test into the Nigerian Immigration Service(NIS).
Vanguard gathered that in many centres, organizers are battling with crowd control as the numbers of applicants seemed to have overwhelmed officials of the NIS and the Ministry of Interior....