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OCTOBER 1 PROTEST: OGUN COURT RESTRICTS PROTESTERS TO MKO ABIOLA STADIUM, THREE OTHER VENUES. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 October 1 protest: Ogun court restricts protesters to MKO Abiola Stadium, three other venues A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, has restricted members of the #FearlessInOctober protest groups in the state to the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abeokuta, Gateway International Stadium, Sagamu; Dipo Dina Stadium, Ijebu Ode, and Ansar-Ud-Deen Comprehensive High School, Ota. The court presided by Tajudeen. A.Okunsokan gave this order following an application brought by the Attorney-General of Ogun State in suit no AB/667/2024, and with Messers Afolabi Adeboye, Ifemosu Michael, Lekan Soneye (for themselves and members of the#FearlessInOctober protests); Bestman Okereafor (on behalf of the Progressive Students Movement), Francis Adeyanju (on behalf of the National Association of Nigerian Students) and Thomas Kehinde (on behalf of the National Association of Ogun Students), as respondents. Other respondents listed in the suit are Yinka Folarin (on behalf of the Committee for the Defence of H

PHOTOS FROM THE CRASH SITE OF GERMANWINGS PLANE CRASH.

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                      Images from the first rescue helicopters to reach the crash site showed wreckage scattered across hundreds of metres of mountainside,with some debris looking like a size of a car.According to todays report,the Germanwings flight 4 U 9525 were shroud in mystery today after air traffi controllers claimed they received no SOS,despite the jet nosediving 32,000ft in just eight minutes.All 144 passengers and six crew were today presumed dead after the Airbus A320 crashed in a remote region of the French Alps enroute from Spain to Germany.Two babies were among 45 Spanish on board and 16 children from the same school on an exchange trip were among some 100 Germans also feared to have died.Earlier reports quoted aviation sources in France as saying the pilots issued a mayday distress signal and requested an emergency descent minutes before it hit the ground.However,civil aviation authorities later denied that air traffic controllers received any such call.A spokesman for t

INEC WILL TOMORROW,BRING OUT BALLOT PAPERS FOR SATURDAY POLLS,FROM ALL CBN VAULTS.

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                According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} Chairman,Mr Kayode Idowu said ''On Wednesday {tomorrow},ballot papers for this saturday's Presidential and National Assembly Elections will be moved from the Central Bank Vaults.All the non sentitive materials have been distributed while the ballot papers have been kept in the vaults of the CBN branches across the country.The Ballot papers for the different positions and locations had been customised in such a way that it would be difficult to be faked by anybody''.The Chairman of  INEC,Prof Attahiru Jega has also revealed that about 56.7 million voter cards had been collected.In a stakeholders meeting hosted by Jega on tuesday,Prof Jega said that the card collected represented about 82% of the registered electorate by the close of distribution ahead of the March 28 election.