A housewife, Mrs Rose Abbey from Edo State, south south Nigeria, was locked up in a micro finance bank called B C Cash located at Ipaja, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, following her inability to service the N17,000 loan she borrowed from the bank. The woman alleged that she was abducted and beaten up and locked [...]
A 25-year old commercial motorcyclist, known in local parlance as okada rider, Etenuwoma Oghenero, has been sentenced to death by hanging by an Isiokolo High Court of Justice, for armed robbery. The convicted armed robber who hails from Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, southsouth Nigeria, along with others now at large, allegedly [...]
The police at Area ‘A’ Command, Lion Building, Campbell Street, Lagos Island, southwest Nigeria, have arrested seven bureau de change agents with fake $10,000 and some British pound sterling. A police patrol team led by Inspector Akeem Mohammed accosted them on Marina Street, Lagos Island with the fake currency notes in their pockets. The suspects [...]
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have arrested 183 suspected hoodlums in Oshodi and Mafoluku areas of Lagos, southwest Nigeria. While 170 hoodlums were arrested at Oshodi, 13 suspected criminals were arrested at an abandoned pit toilet at Mafoluku after a tip off that the public toilet was [...]
The trial of two journalists with Leadership Newspapers kicked off before a federal high court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday. They pleaded not guilty to the amended six counts charge slammed against them by the federal government for allegedly forging a presidential directive and publishing same purporting the forged document as true. Before their pleas [...]
The 26 members of the Rivers House of Assembly, including the Speaker Otelemaba Amachree, who were yesterday suspended by the disputed faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State have secured a court order restraining the Party from suspending them or declaring their seat vacant. In an Order of Interim Injunction granted by Justice [...]
The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today’s Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organisers said on Tuesday. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said it had begun recreating the website that launched that World Wide Web, as well [...]
