Workers in shock as DG, orderly killed in Enugu
The Director-General of the Science and Equipment Development Institute, Prof. Samuel Ndubisi, has been assassinated in Enugu by unidentified gunmen. This is coming barely 48 hours after the Managing...
View Article12 Indian ministers resign in major reshuffle
Twelve Indian ministers, including the health chief, resigned Wednesday following a catastrophic surge in Covid-19 cases earlier this year. The resignations form part of a major cabinet reshuffle and...
View ArticleEdo PDP chieftain kidnapped, hoodlums demand N20m ransom
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State, Mr Ugbo Iyiriaro, has been kidnapped along Benin-Abraka Road. The incident was said to have occurred between Ugo and Ugboko communities in the...
View ArticleBoko Haram storms Adamawa community, 18 bodies recovered, many missing
Suspected Boko Haram fighters operating on 11 motorcycles, in the early hours of Wednesday, invaded Dabna village and adjoining communities in Adamawa State and allegedly killed scores. Dabna is less...
View ArticleCourt jails widow, pleading for forgiveness, for killing ailing husband
The Ondo State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced a woman, Mrs Toyin Olusa, to one year imprisonment for causing the death of her husband, Mr Adeyinka Olusa, at the...
View ArticleCourt jails 12 students, two ex-govt officials
Twelve students arrested for Internet fraud have been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each by the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu. They were arraigned before Justice I.M. Buba on charges...
View ArticleLagos, Abia, Zamfara, 12 other states’ debts jump to N1.68tn
The cumulative domestic debts of Lagos and 14 other states rose by 153.82 per cent between December 31, 2015 and March 31, 2021, analysis of data obtained from the Debt Management Office has shown....
View ArticleAvailable power generation capacity plunges by 3,000MW – Gencos
Power generation companies on Wednesday declared that the country’s available electricity capacity had dropped by about 3,000 megawatts. Executive Secretary, Association of Power Generation Companies,...
View ArticleBaptist school students’ abductors run out of food, NBC opposes ransom
Bandits, who abducted 121 students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Rido, Kaduna State on Wednesday reiterated their demand for rice and other foodstuffs to feed the abductees. A top official...
View ArticleUNILORIN student’s murder: Judge orders lawyer’s arrest for attacking court
Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court on Wednesday issued a bench warrant on Mr Sikiru Solagberu, the counsel for one of the eight accused persons facing trial in the murder of Blessing...
View ArticleNational Assembly ignores South govs, others, defends controversial PIB...
There are strong indications that the National Assembly will ignore opposition to some provisions of the Petroleum Industry Bill recently passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives. The...
View ArticleFight banditry, insurgency, not Kanu, Umar tells FG
A former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Umar(retd.), on Wednesday knocked the All Progressives Congress and Federal Government led by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari...
View ArticleTrader in court for bathing salesgirl with hot water
A trader, Rashidat Adeleke, has been arraigned before the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly pouring hot water on her salesgirl, Bukola Akinola. PUNCH Metro had reported...
View ArticleBuhari ministers, Twitter yet to begin talks on ban
The Federal Government of Nigeria and tech giant, Twitter, have yet to begin negotiations over a month after Twitter was suspended by the government. The government had on June 4, 2021, announced the...
View ArticleINEC maintains dead govs, ministers, others on voter register
• Commission fails to delete Alamieyeseigha, Akunyili, Abba Kyari on register The Independent National Electoral Commission has failed to clean up its voter register despite suspending the Continuous...
View ArticleEl-Rufai and the cows in human skin
In May, Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, was asked to clarify the statement he made nine years ago about the Fulani and their propensity to carry out maniacal violence against others. Rather than...
View ArticleNYSC certificate: I’ll take steps to redeem my reputation, says Adeosun
A former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has hinted at a legal challenge to the smear campaign she suffered while in office. She stated this after the Federal High Court in Abuja ruled that she was...
View ArticleRobbers kill two Lagos Okada riders, steal motorcycles
The families of two motorcyclists, Sheriff Sulaiman and Sanni Abubakar, have called on the Lagos State Police Command to track down the robbers who allegedly shot them dead around the Abule Ijesha and...
View ArticleLaw school releases 2021 results, 1,326 fail
A total of 1,325 persons have failed the bar final examination 2021 the Nigerian Law School released result on Tuesday. The statistics by the Council of Legal Education showed that a total of 5,770...
View ArticleWHO assessing NAFDAC ahead vaccine production – Director
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, on Wednesday, said the agency was being audited by the World Health Organisation to...
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