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DOZENS of gender equality activists gathered in central London last night for the launch of the Forum for African Afro-Caribbean and Asian Women in Politics (Fawp) aimed at encouraging ethnic minority fames to get engaged in the political process.

NOTORIOUS kidnapper Chukwudumeje Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans has revealed that prominent businessmen across southeastern Nigeria regularly provided him with information on victims and shared the proceeds of the ransoms he received.

KOGI West's Senator Dino Melaye has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to court in an attempt to prevent it from proceeding with moves to get him recalled from the National Assembly.

NIGERIA is poised to become the world's third largest economy by 2050 according to the European Union's (EU) ambassador to the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Michel Arrion.

FEARS that notorious kidnapper Chukwudem Onwamadike popularly known as Evans might be getting away lightly with his horrendous crime have grown over the last few days after a Yaba Magistrates Court granted three of his suspected accomplices bail.

THREE armed robbery suspects arrested in Rivers State have refused to be paraded before the media daring policemen to shoot them for declining to appear adding that they do not want to be put on show.

LEADERS of thought from across the Middle Belt have proposed that Nigeria adopts a new 12 federating unit structure that will serve as a means of ensuring the component parts of the country are sustainable in a bid to address the ongoing ethnic agitation in the country.

CONTROVERSIAL Kogi West senator Dino Melaye is facing the battle of his life as the move to get him recalled from the senate heated up yesterday after the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) confirmed that it has been formally notified of the action.

POLICE in the Niger State capital Minna have arrested a fake medical doctor who not only forged a certificate and impersonated staff but also used the opportunity to abuse patients by sucking their private parts.

According to the police, Umaru Usman, 50, was arrested at the Outpatient Department of the Minna General Hospital on Tuesday. Mr Usman had been parading himself as a medical doctor for over two years without detection.

HUMAN rights activist and the former chairman of the West African Bar Association Femi Falana has revealed that the Arewa youth leader who gave Igbos living in northern Nigeria an ultimatum to leave the region actually lives in Lagos himself.