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BENUE TASKFORCE NABS THREE FOR N350,000 'MARCHING GROUND' EXTORTION. (PHOTOS).

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 BENUE TASKFORCE NABS THREE FOR N350,000 'MARCHING GROUND' EXTORTION 29th March, 2025      The Taskforce on Illegal Levies and Criminal Activities in Makurdi has arrested three suspected gang members for extorting money from a borehole drilling operation in the Nyoogyungu area of Makurdi, Benue State. The suspects, identified as Anyakpa Aondoaver, Sende Stephen, and Akaahan Terna, were reportedly caught on CCTV demanding N350,000 as an illegal “Marching Ground” levy from a drilling team. Acting on a distress call, the task force swiftly intervened and apprehended the suspects, handing them over to the Police Area Command in Makurdi for prosecution. Parading the suspects, the Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to Governor Hyacinth Alia on Youth Organization and Illegal Levies, Hon. Gbenda Terver, warned youths against engaging in criminal activities that hinder the state’s development. He added that the government remains committed to eradicating illegal levies and urged ...

GBADEBO RHODES-VIDOUR CLINCHES LABOUR PARTY GUBER TICKET .(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE

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GBADEBO RHODES-VIDOUR CLINCHES LABOUR PARTY GUBER TICKET  The desire of the youths to drive a revolution through their votes in 2023 election, has once more paid off with the election of 39 years old Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour as the governorship candidate of Labour Party in the substitution governorship election of the party, held on Wednesday 10th August, 2022. Gbadebo who evinced the new face of hope of the teeming Lagos youths, polled 111 to defeat his much older opponent, Alhaji Moshood Salvado who polled 102 in the keenly contested primaries, observed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and members of Labour Party National Executive Committee by the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Lamidi Bashiru Apapa. In his victory speech, Gbadebo pledges to run an all-inclusive campaign cum government, when elected governor of Lagos State to build a Lagos State that works for all. He further opined that he will close ranks with all blocks in the party especiall...