Edo APC tackles Obaseki over demolition of structures
THE Edo State Government and the state All Progressive Congress are at loggerheads over the demolition of structures deemed illegal by the government. Some of the structures affected are shopping...
View ArticleAPGA replies INEC, says Anambra governorship primary holds today
THE Chief Victor Oye-led faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance has said the planned Anambra State Governorship primary will go ahead today (Wednesday) as scheduled. This was contained in a...
View ArticleTwitter wants ban lifted, Reps say suspension dictatorial, ill-timed
The micro-blogging and social media platform, Twitter, has written the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), seeking restoration of its operations in Nigeria. The Special Assistant to the...
View ArticleRivers varsity student, arrested with Indian hemp sack, suspended
The management of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said it had suspended an undergraduate, Chimara Prince, after he was arrested with sacks of Indian hemp on the...
View ArticleFake Ponzi scheme operator jailed seven years
A fake Ponzi scheme operator, Umoren Edet, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for obtaining money under...
View ArticleSuspects who sold missing Rivers baby for N350,000 jailed 24 years
A Rivers State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced two persons to 24 years’ imprisonment with hard labour for stealing and selling a 28-month-old baby. The court found Goodness...
View ArticleTwo nabbed in Delta for stealing three children from Niger four years ago
The Delta State Police Command has arrested two suspected child traffickers and rescued three children from them in Asaba. The acting Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Bright Edafe,...
View ArticleOwner collapses, hospitalised as Delta supermarket goes up in flames
The owner of Sylverson Supermarket in Ogwash-Uku, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, collapsed on Tuesday as fire gutted the facility, which is the largest supermarket in the...
View ArticleEight arrested in Enugu for kidnapping, robbery, cultism
The Enugu State Police Command, on Tuesday, said it had arrested eight persons for alleged kidnapping, possession of firearms, armed robbery and cultism. It said five firearms, including an AK-47...
View ArticleFemale doctor, ex-soldier arrested for selling drugged cookies, cocaine, others
A medical doctor, Jane Ofoma, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Auchi, Edo State, for operating an online catering service, where drugged cookies and...
View ArticleMan, 35, defiles two-year-old daughter, sexually harasses maid in Lagos
A 35-year-old man, Kingsley Achugbu, has been arrested by police operatives attached to the Festac Division of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly defiling his two-year-old daughter and...
View ArticleNine die, 13 vehicles burnt in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway tanker explosions,...
NINE persons lost their lives in separate accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the Iluomoba-Aisegba Road in Ekiti State on Tuesday. Two persons were burnt to death, while one other sustained...
View ArticleDay herdsmen told me Akure land belonged to them
AROUND the end of February 2016, officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria came to my office while I was serving as the Ondo State Commissioner for Environment, during the administration...
View ArticlePress Council bill terribly draconian, worse than Decree 4 – Osoba
In this interview with ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, a former Governor of Ogun State and ex-Managing Director of Daily Times, Chief Olusegun Osoba, speaks on the suspension of Twitter and the attempts to introduce...
View ArticleSuit against immigration boss’ tenure extension struck out
The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday struck out the suit that was brought before it by a legal practitioner and human rights activist, Daniel Makolo, against the Minister of...
View ArticleNDDC forensic audit ready for Buhari July – Akpabio
THE Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has said that the final report of a forensic audit of Niger Delta Development Commission will not be ready until end of July when it will be...
View ArticleAdamant minister stops FIIRO DG’s appointment over demoted officer
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has asked the board of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, stop all process of appointing a substantive DG. It was learnt...
View ArticleAbuja private varsity opts for virtual learning as abductions rise
THE management of a private institution in Abuja, Veritas University, has decided to introduce online learning following concerns raised by parents over security of students. The university located in...
View ArticleSuspected herdsmen kill father, two sons in Taraba
GUNMEN suspected to be herdsmen in the early hours of Wednesday killed three persons in an attack on Jauro Gantang village in the Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State. A local resident, Mr....
View ArticleLawyer sues FG, 36 states over judiciary autonomy
An Abuja-based lawyer, Emeka Okoye, has dragged the Federal Government, 36 states of the federation and the Federal Account Allocation Committee to court over the issue of the financial autonomy of the...
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