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Court orders remand of 2 herbalists, Ismail Wasiu, 29, and Shittu Mutairu, 35 and one other for alleged murder of a woman, Mujidat

Metro

Lagos trucker charged with causing death of tricycle rider

The prosecutor said that the defendant dangerously drove a Mercedes Benz truck on a public highway and caused the death…
Court

Metro

Engineer Akinsola docked for pouring bleach in neighbour’s eye

The defendant poured ”hypo” bleach in Mr Samson Fatoyinbo’s eyes following a minor misunderstanding.
Items recovered by the police from arrested members of notorious Lion Squad gang of armed robbers by the police in Anambra

Metro

Police smash notorious Lion Squad robbery gang in Anambra

The gang known as ‘the Lion Squad,’ is alleged to have been terrorising Ogwuaniocha Community in Ogbaru LGA of Anambra…
L-R: Chief Judge of Rivers State, Hon. Justice Simeon Amadi; Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike; Hon. Justice Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike; Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Ipalibo Harry-Banigo and the Acting President Customary Court of Appeal, Rivers State, Hon. Justice Ihenacho Wilfred Obuzor at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Thursday after Justice Obuzor's swearing in

News

Wike: NJC appointing lily-livered lawyers as judges

"It should not be just that this person is intelligent. A judge should be firm and give judgment the way…
L-R: Chief Judge of Rivers State, Hon. Justice Simeon Amadi; Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Ipalibo Harry-Banigo at the inauguration of Rivers' Multi-door Courthouse, Port Harcourt on Thursday.

News

Rivers: Wike inaugurates Multi-door Courthouse

He added that there is the need to sensitize the business community about Multi-door-Courthouse services
Covenant University announces activities for Founders’ Day

Education

Wrongful dismissal: Covenant University to pay ex-staff N10.3m

“The termination of the claimant’s employment is wrongful and not in accordance with international best practices,” the judge ruled
Joke Silva: speaks on her 40-year acting career, including why she was once chased in a market in Lagos in an exclusive interview to mark her 60th birthday

Entertainment, Nollywood

Why I was chased by market women in Lagos – Joke Silva

Legendary star actress Joke Silva opens up on on her 40-year acting career in an exclusive interview to mark her…
The Ogun State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security set deadline for the registration of herders operating in the state.

News

Police arrest herder, cows for destroying farm in Jigawa

The herdsman became violent and inflicted various degrees of injuries on the five persons.
President Buhari with Governor Obaseki in Aso Rock presidential villa on Wednesday: Obaseki said he discussed issue of open grazing and the need for full implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Programme (NLTP) to address the problem of clashes between farmers and herders during the meeting with the President

News

Obaseki: What I discussed with Buhari in Aso Rock

Obaseki said the state government is yet to promulgate a law banning open grazing because it sees the venture as…
Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State

Politics

2022: APC leaders reiterate commitment to Oyetola’s re-election

Laoye-Ponle said that people in the constituency appreciated the numerous projects embarked upon by the governor since inception of his…
CP Abutu Yaro: Anambra United asks Inspector-General of Police to deploy him to Anambra to tackle rampaging gunmen

News

Rampaging gunmen: Anambra group asks for CP Abutu Yaro

“Yaro is a lion in the field of operation. We need him to replicate the feat he achieved in Imo…
A cobra: Indian court, handed a rare double life sentence to Sooraj Kumar who was found guily of murdering his wife by making a cobra bite her while she was sleeping.

Metro

Man gets two life sentences for killing wife using cobra

India’s Supreme Court recently warned about a trend of snake-bite murders
Court orders remand of 2 herbalists, Ismail Wasiu, 29, and Shittu Mutairu, 35 and one other for alleged murder of a woman, Mujidat

Metro

Court dissolves marriage after 64-year-old husband threatens suicide

All the five children agreed that the marriage should be dissolved for peace to reign.
Cross section of participants at a three-day intensive workshop on advocacy, girls' education and school safety, organised by Malala Fund: They demanded for safer schools for Nigerian girls

Education

Malala Foundation hosts ‘Safer School’ workshop in Nigeria

High point of the workshop was the presentation of the Girls’ safe School Declaration to Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo…
Seyi Shay: Speaks on Sound Sultan convinced her to relocate to Nigeria and living with him for one year

Entertainment

Seyi Shey speaks on meeting, living with late Sound Sultan

Nigerian singer-songwriter, Deborah Oluwaseyi Joshua, popularly known as Seyi Shay has spoken on how late music legend, Olanrewaju Abdul-Ganiu Fasasi,…
Kassim Afegbua: Chairman of the PDP in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, Sir Sunday Adogah, says he no authority to speak on the internal affairs of the party since he has been suspended.

Politics

Suspension: Edo PDP tackles Afegbua

the suspension of Afegbua has been ratified by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of PDP
Social Democratic Party: Chairman of SDP in Delta, Mr Oke Idawene, says Southern leaders should lobby their Northern counterparts to get presidency in 2023.

Politics

2023: SDP chieftain counsels Southern leaders on presidency

Idawene called on politicians and in particular the National Assembly to support INEC to adopt electronic voting come 2023.
Ex- Kano lawmaker Yusuf Sulaiman says emergence of Abdullahi Ganduje as National Chairman of APC has sent jitters to the camp of the PDP.

Politics

APC Congress: Ganduje orders contestants in Kano to report at NDLEA

On Jan. 8, 13 councillorship aspirants in Kano State tested positive to hard drugs.
Scores of Edo youths at a failed section of the Benin -Sapele expressway on Tuesday protesting the deplorable condition of the road.

News

Edo youths protest deplorable state of Benin/Warri road

Residents lament that the bad state of the road has disconnected communities in Edo and Delta States
Curtis Ugbo, President of the Benin Solidarity Movement: arrested by police for allegedly lying against a Benin-based human rights lawyer, Olayiwola Afolabi.

News

Benin Solidarity Movement’s President, Ugbo in police net

Ugbo was alleged to have said that Afolabi collected the sum of  N10m from one Prince Johnson Atseleghe as a…
Obaseki (right) with Andrew Emwanta: Coalition of Benin Youth Groups asks Governor Godwin Obaseki to remove Andrew Emwanta as Commissioner for Information and Orientation.

News

Group asks Obaseki to sack Commissioner Andrew Emwanta

Emwanta was accused of opposing the appointment of a Benin man as Chairman of NDDC and saying that he owes…
The remains of two boys of Madam Precious Sunday beside the truck that crushed them to death under the Isaac Boro Park flyover in Port Harcourt, Rivers State

Metro

I want justice, not N1m for killing of my 2 boys: Bereaved mother

The bereaved mother who was pregnant and due for delivery when the accident occurred gave birth to a baby girl…
Court sentences Lagos man, Eniola Wasiu Ibrahim, to life imprisonment for forcefully having sexual intercourse with his girlfriend

Metro, News

Why I beheaded my brother – Plateau man Danladi confesses

“I became very angry and disappointed that he could do such a thing. I picked up a knife and stabbed…
Mohammed Idris, former Representatives and son of a former Governor of Kogi state, Ibrahim Idris, dies in Abuja.

Politics

Ibrahim Idris joins race for PDP chairmanship

He promised to lead the PDP back to victory in 2023 election as an experienced members of the party who…
Justice Joy Okeaya-Inneh of a Benin City High Court on Friday issued an interim injunction restraining embattled National Vice Chairman (South-South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih, the State Secretary of the party, Hilary Otsu and nine others from participating in the national convention of the party, scheduled to hold from 30 to 31 October, 2021 in Abuja.

Politics

Edo PDP: Obaseki supervises suspension of Dan Orbirh, 5 others

By Jethro Ibileke Governor Godwin Obaseki was present as members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ratified the suspension of the…
Late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu: Nnenna Abiona, first daughter says late ex-Military Governor of Lagos and Imo, Rear Admiral would be upset about the legal dispute in the family over his burial arrangements.

Metro

Dad would be upset over lawsuit: Ndubuisi-Kanu’s daughter

One of the wives of the deceased, Mrs Gladys Kanu filed a lawsuit against the children of the deceased, the…
Sir. Victor Uwaifo

Metro

Edo govt. announces burial programme for Sir Victor Uwaifo

The funeral for Uwaifo would commence on October 14 with tributes, vigil mass/service of songs at the Ogbemudia Stadium Benin.
FILE PHOTO: COVID-19 testing; Germany says no more free testing for COVID-19 Photo credit: The Lancet

News

Germany stops free COVID-19 tests

Minister of Health Jens Spahn defended the move saying that free COVID-19 testing, for example, would still be available for…
Late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu: Nnenna Abiona, first daughter says late ex-Military Governor of Lagos and Imo, Rear Admiral would be upset about the legal dispute in the family over his burial arrangements.

News

Judge: Why I stopped release of Ndubuisi Kanu’s corpse

The final burial rites of the ex-Lagos Military Administrator outside Lagos will run from Oct. 13 in Imo to Oct.…
Nuhu Ribadu

Metro

Ribadu laments: I’ve really suffered from fake news

“I am a victim, and I don’t know why people are doing it, it’s as if am a target of…
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