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Jos Prison or Correctional Centre

4000 prison escapees still at large

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

In 2020 alone, 4,369 inmates escaped from the custodial centres. But according to Aregbesola, only 984 had been recaptured.

Orji Kalu urges Soludo to run inclusive government

Nimot Sulaimon

4 years ago

Senator Orji Kalu, the Chief Whip of the Senate, has urged the Anambra governor-elect, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo to run an…
Adebanjo

Nigeria is evidently dying: Pa Adebanjo speaks

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

Chief Ayo Adebanjo said Afenifere does not believe in secession and disintegration of Nigeria but demands true federalism to address…

NAFDAC uncovers ‘ghost’ sachet water factories

Nimot Sulaimon

4 years ago

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has uncovered ‘ghost’ sachet water factories in Yola, Adamawa…
Troops

Battle for Northeast: 31 Boko Haram terrorists shot dead, 71 arrested

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

The Defence Headquarters has said troops of Operation Hadin Kai, eliminated 31 terrorists, arrested 71, and received 1,186 surrendered insurgents…
Lagos marathon: Marina, Onikan, other roads for closure Saturday, says LASTMA

Alert: Lagos to shut Marina, Onikan, other roads Saturday

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority said some roads in the state will be closed to traffic on Saturday from…

2023: INEC considers allowing prisoners to vote

PM NEWS Live

4 years ago

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said this during a courtesy visit of CAPIO, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) on Wednesday in…
Senator Smart Adeyemi

Adeyemi backs money laundering bill, urges colleagues declare assets

Nimot Sulaimon

4 years ago

The bill was sponsored by Sadiq Umar, senator representing Kwara north, and Suleiman Kwari, senator representing Kaduna north.
NDLEA arrests 20 drug traffickers in Edo

NDLEA arrests 20 drug traffickers in Edo

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Edo Command on Thursday said it arrested 20 suspects in connection with illicit…
Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) urges female students, staff in Ikole campus to stay indoors from Aug. 7 to 9 due to Oro festival.

FUOYE bans students from driving cars on campus

PM NEWS Live

4 years ago

Authorities of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State (FUOYE) have banned students from bringing cars to the school campus.
policemen

Passerby hit as police, kidnappers engage in gun duel in Niger

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

Police in Niger State killed a fleeing kidnap suspect at Bosso Local Government Area of the state on Thursday and…
Mr Monday Kuryas, Niger Commissioner of Police

Police arrest 4 Ponzi scheme operators, recover N3.8m

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

Police in Niger State has arrested four fraudsters at Tunga in the Chanchaga Local Government Area of the state.
Chimdalu Chidi and Pastor Okeke Eneokwor

Pastor Eneokwor arrested for ‘killing’ 7-year-old boy in Enugu

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

“He also led police operatives and a medical team to a stream at Abakpa-Nike, Enugu, where the decomposing corpse of…
Justice Aniele, a pastor with Assemblies of God Church bags life imprisonment for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14 year- old- girl

Pastor Aniele bags life sentence for impregnating 14 -year -old orphan

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Aniele consistently raped the 14 year old victim, an orphan, under his care and got her pregnant, police said in…
Pastor Chris Amadi of Shalom Mercy Ministry, Rivers State and his wife, Solution, who he allegedly strangled

Rivers pastor Amadi arrested for allegedly killing wife

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Amadi had allegedly attempted to run away after he committed the murder, but he was arrested.
Nigerian soldiers ambush terrorists in Adamawa; kill 6

Boko Haram terrorists suffer heavy losses in Pulka

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

He said the operation was conducted by troops deployed at 192 Battalion Forward Operations Base (FOB) on Wednesday.
Mrs Kikelomo Bolarinwa, Permanent Secretary, Local Government Establishments, Training and Pension Office

Lagos trains senior civil servants

Nimot Sulaimon

4 years ago

The Permanent Secretary, Local Government Establishments, Training and Pension Office, Mrs Kikelomo Bolarinwa said the one-month training would be split…
Tope Fagun arraigned for 'duping' APC of N70m

Tope Fagun dupes APC of N70m meant for Ize Iyamu campaign

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

The EFCC has arraigned one Tope Jimi Fagun before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on…
COVID-19: NCDC announces new COVID-19 cases

Edo reports 8 COVID-19 deaths, Plateau leads new cases

Nimot Sulaimon

4 years ago

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said that Nigeria recorded 65 additional cases of COVID-19 infections and eight COVID-19…
Gov. Zulum

Gov. Zulum releases N476m for 15,374 Borno students

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved and released the sum of N476,640,000 for payment of 2020/2021 scholarship to…
Mr Valentine Ozigbo, the governorship candidate of PDP: says the Nov. 6 Anambra election was fraught with lots of short-comings

Ozigbo: Anambra election fraught with lots of shortcomings

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Nevertheless, Ozigbo said he has called the Governor-elect, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo to wish him well
Rt. Hon. Dumnamene Robinson Dekor, member representing Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives: supports selection of Gov. Nyesom Wike as the leader of talks between Ogoni people and the FG over OML 11

OML 11: Wike divides Ogoni leaders

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Controversy over the selection of Governor Nyesom Wike as the leader of a Stakeholder Consultative Meeting…

G.U.O Transport Manager Chukwuma arraigned for allegedly stealing employer’s N6.7m

Kazeem Ugbodaga

4 years ago

The Manager in Charge of G.U.O Transport Company, Alaba International Market Branch, Ojo, Lagos, Anthony Chukwuma, 43, has been arrested…
Ikoyi building collapse

Collapsed building: Death toll now 45, two high-rise buildings not for demolition – LASG

Kazeem Ugbodaga

4 years ago

Death toll in the 21-storey collapsed building in Ikoyi, Lagos has reached 45, the Lagos State Government said late Wednesday…
Chairman of Rivers Civil Society Organization Enefa Georgewill leading leading solidarity march by Ogoni people to commemorate Ken Saro-Wiwa led Ogoni 9 from Isaac Boro Park to Ken's office of Aggrey Road, Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Ogoni Youth Federation, OYF, urges President Muhammadu Buhari to declare November 10th a public holiday in honour of the murdered Ogoni 9

Ogoni 9: Group urges Buhari to declare Nov. 10 public holiday

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Ogoni Youths posited that the hanging of the Ogoni 9 remains a permanent stain on Nigeria's claim to civilization.
Sanwo-Olu

Death of Pastor Odukoya’s wife painful, sad – Sanwo-Olu

Kazeem Ugbodaga

4 years ago

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has condoled with Pastor Taiwo Odukoya over the death of his beloved wife, Nomthi.
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje reiterates plea for forgiveness from those he might have offended while governing Kano state in the past eight years.

Ganduje inaugurates governing councils of state varsities

Nimot Sulaimon

4 years ago

Ganduje performed the inauguration on Wednesday during the state Executive Council meeting held at the Government House, Kano.
Crackdown at sea: NDLEA shatters drug cartels with record seizures

Marwa seeks removal of fine option from NDLEA Act

Nimot Sulaimon

4 years ago

Marwa said the removal of fine option for drug offences would strengthen the deterrence effect of court prosecution and conviction.
Police dock Benue man Hassan Rayyamu over alleged defamatory a Facebook post labeling against one Alhaji Mohammed Isa

Facebook makes society worse: New poll

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

The poll conducted by SSRS found that 76% of Americans believe Facebook worsens society, with 11% saying the opposite.
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike at the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Port Harcourt on Wednesday. He condemns bid by DSP Ovie Omo-Agege to take a campus of Nigerian Law School to his village through a bill in the Senate

Law School Bill: Wike slams DSP Omo-Agege, Senators

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Wike said there is no way the Council of Legal Education will support politically induced proliferation of Law School campuses…
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