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In order to escape a marriage allegedly organised by her father, 15-year-old girl has fled from her home town in Plateau State to Ekiti State The Publicity Secretary of the Federation of Women Lawyers in Ekiti State, Lola Aluko, said the minor fled on Thursday, September 17, 2020, to stay with her brother, identified as […]
Continue Reading28-year-old man who allegedly murdered his parents, wife and sister-in-law in Kisoro district, western Uganda handed himself to the police on Sunday, September 27. The suspect, Gerald Ndikumukiza, a resident of Kageyo village, Busengo parish Nyarubuye sub-county, last Thursday, reportedly hacked to death his 26-year-old wife, Maserina Mujawimana; his father, Deogratious Sebitama aged 80; his […]
Continue ReadingA former staff of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against her, has been sentenced to 98 years in prison by Justice Muniru Olagunju of Oyo High Court for fraud. A statement released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, said Adesakin was found to […]
Continue Reading17-year-old Hafsat, whose newborn was allegedly buried alive by her father in Bauchi has stated that she didn’t know she was pregnant until labour, adding that she cannot remember having sexual intercourse with any man. Recall that the Bauchi State Police Command arrested one Bawada Audi, 50, for the murder of his newborn grandchild in […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, has Monday, ordered Senator Elisha Abbo, PDP Adamawa North, who slapped a nursing mother repeatedly at a sex toy shop on May 11, 2019 to pay the sum of fifty million naira (N50m) to Osimibibra Warmate for assault. The youngest senator in the country was said to […]
Continue ReadingDr Piotr Cywiński, the Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Warsaw, Poland, says he and 119 other volunteers across the world are offering to be jailed in exchange for the release of a teenager imprisoned for blasphemy in Kano State. The museum is on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended their planned nationwide strike that was scheduled to start today, Monday, September 28, in protest against the hike in the price of fuel and electricity tariff. The strike was suspended after reaching a consensus with the Federal Government early Monday morning at a […]
Continue ReadingIn an interdenominational church service to commemorate Nigeria’s 60th Independence anniversary which took place on Sunday, Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that Nigeria may break up if efforts are not made to address the cracks. The Vice-President who was represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, at […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man, University graduate, identified as Joshua Ayodele Fasipe has been declared missing in Canada. Latoye Sade, a Canada-based Nigerian Twitter user, who confirmed this on Saturday September 25, said that Mr Fasipe, a graduate of Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, has been missing since Wednesday, September 23. She pleaded with anyone with useful information […]
Continue Reading22-year-old man simply identified as Sarafa Ayuba, has committed suicide beside his uncle’s house at Amuloko area of Ona Ara Local Government part of Oyo State on Friday, September 25. An uncle of the deceased, Kazeem Tijani, recounted how Ayuba was declared missing and his body was recovered. “Ayuba got the motorcycle on hire purchase basis […]
Continue ReadingEight policemen, three soldiers, and four Civilian Joint Task Force operatives were killed after the convoy of the Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum, was again attacked by Boko Haram terrorists along the Baga Highway in the state on Friday, September 25. According to reports, the governor had left Maiduguri for Baga to prepare for the planned return […]
Continue ReadingMany people are missing after a truck fell off the Berger bridge into the Epe river in Lagos State. It was gathered that the incident happened on Friday night and that the number of persons in the truck was unknown. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency ( LASEMA) confirmed the incident on Saturday. Nosa Okunbor, […]
Continue ReadingThe acting head of the UK’s court service has apologised after a black barrister was mistaken for a defendant four times in one day. Alexandra Wilson, a criminal and family lawyer, tweeted that she was “absolutely exhausted” after staff repeatedly treated her as a suspected criminal. Her tweets quickly went viral, drawing accusations of racism […]
Continue ReadingEdo State governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has dismissed every possibility of him returning to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor who won his re-election last Saturday, stated this while speaking to State House Correspondents after meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja today September 25. Governor Obaseki defected from the APC to […]
Continue ReadingColonel Bah Ndaw (Retd), has been sworn in to head a transitional government in Mali following a coup carried out last month by the Malian military. Ndaw was sworn in during a ceremony held in the capital Bamako today, September 25, 2020. The ceremony occurred with government officials dressed in military attires while senior judges, […]
Continue ReadingFour former staff of Signatious Hotel in Warri, Delta State, who were allegedly stripped naked naked on the order of the owner of the hotel who is a former Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi, have written a letter to him demanding N1bn compensation and a public apology from him. In a letter written by their counsel, Kunle Edun […]
Continue ReadingEx-national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday night said life was not all about winning. The former Edo state governor, who spoke for the first time on the outcome of last Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State, which his party lost to the Peoples Democratic Party, said that losing was […]
Continue ReadingPresident of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Prof. Banji Akintoye, said on Wednesday that the over 55 million Yoruba people in the Southwest of Nigeria would get freedom by having the sovereign Yoruba nation without breaking the laws of Nigeria or shedding blood. Prof. Akintoye stated this at the YWC House in Ibadan, the Oyo […]
Continue ReadingUnited States government has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies over the conduct of the Edo State Governorship election. Edo state governorship election took place on Saturday, September 19 in Nigeria. Reports say it was relatively peaceful. In its tweets on Wednesday September 23, the US government also commended the people […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigeria Police (Amendment) Act 2020 came with some important innovations or reform that every Nigerian should know about. In order to know your rights and duties under the Act, it is incumbent upon everyone to spare a minute or two to go through the explanations as produced below: The Reform 1. The general objective […]
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