Court issues criminal summons against Charles Soludo
The Upper Area Court Zuba in Abuja has issued a criminal summons against the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and factional candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Charles...
View ArticleAPC suspends 11 Lai Mohammed’s followers, stops offenders’ registration
THE factional crisis in the Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress took a turn for the worse on Thursday. This was sequel to the news that 11 party loyalists belonging to the faction of...
View ArticleWoman locks up five-year-old for six months in Lagos
The police in Lagos State have arrested a 43-year-old woman, Sharon Williams, for allegedly locking up and assaulting her five-year-old nephew, Micheal Ibiyome, for six months. Ibiyome lived with the...
View ArticleCertificate forgery: FCC chairman kicks as CSO demands resignation
A human rights group, the LYGEL Youths and Leadership Initiative, on Thursday, asked the Chairman of the Federal Character Commission, Dr Muheeba Dankanka, to immediately resign over alleged forgery of...
View ArticleCOVID-19 shatters hajj dreams of older pilgrims
Samia Ahmed saved up for 16 years, but like many older Muslims she fears that renewed Covid-19 curbs will prevent her from ever making the hajj pilgrimage. Saudi Arabia has, for a second consecutive...
View Article‘You can now use WhatsApp on other devices even if your phone battery is dead’
Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced the launch of a trial aimed at freeing its users from smartphones. In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook engineers said the new feature would...
View ArticleGeneral killed by bandits for burial today
The military is set to bury a former Provost Marshal of the Nigerian Army, Major General Hassan Ahmed, who was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Abaji area of Abuja late on Thursday night. Gunmen were...
View ArticleAlleged $9.7m haul: Supreme Court dismisses ex-NNPC GMD Yakubu’s appeal...
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the appeal brought before it by the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Andrew Yakubu, challenging the order for the...
View ArticleGovs hijack federal varsities’ VC appointments, says minister
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Thursday alleged that some state governors have hijacked the process of appointing Vice-Chancellors for Federal Universities. He explained that he had a...
View ArticleAbuja serial rapist pastor jailed for life
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Nyanya has sentenced a 29-year-old pastor, Stephen Kalu, to life imprisonment for raping a 17-year-old girl. Justice Peter Kekemeke held that...
View ArticlePharmacist council shuts 340 chemists in Edo
The Pharmacist Council of Nigeria has sealed 340 premises and stores in Edo State over non-compliance with guidelines on distribution of patent medicine. The PCN’s Director of Enforcement, Stephen...
View ArticleECOWAS seeks revenue mobilisation for Nigeria, others
The Economic Community of West African States on Thursday called on tax agencies in Nigeria and other countries within the region to focus on domestic revenue mobilisation to be able to tackle current...
View ArticleCourt jails Ekiti SUBEB staff, varsity graduate for Internet fraud
A Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State on Thursday sentenced a staff of Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board, Olubola Sunday; and Ade-Ajayi Oluwatobi, a graduate of Ekiti State...
View ArticleCOVID-19 third wave: No plan to order fresh lockdown, says NEC
The National Economic Council on Thursday assured that there was “no indication of an imminent lockdown”, as the nation braces up for COVID-19’s third wave. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State,...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Edo pledges sustained investment in youth development
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration will continue to prioritise investment in youth development and implement policies that will enable youths in the state to...
View ArticleDeath toll in German floods rises to 81
Authorities in Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate said Friday that 50 people have died in devastating floods in the western state, bringing the national death toll to at least 81, with dozens more missing....
View ArticleHIV increases risk of severe COVID-19 infection — WHO
A new World Health Organisation report has confirmed that HIV infection is a significant independent risk factor for both severe and critical COVID-19 presentation at hospital admission and in-hospital...
View ArticleTokyo Olympics: Nigeria’s athletes in Japan lament ‘sleeping difficulty’
Some Nigerian athletes due to participate in the Tokyo Olympics have complained that they are suffering sleep disruptions. Some of the athletes lamented that they are struggling to acclimatise to the...
View ArticleKatsina police kill bandit, rescue abductee
Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have killed a notorious bandit, Abdullahi Ummi, in a gun battle. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Gambo Isa, disclosed this while briefing...
View ArticleAfter DSS deadly raid, corpses of Igboho’s associates missing, whereabouts, a...
KAYODE OYERO writes on the fate of the associates of the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, who were arrested in his Soka, Ibadan, residence as well as what has become of the...
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