By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – A Federal High Court in Benin, the Edo State’s capital has sentenced a major drug dealer, Mike Omoarukhe, his manager and three other workers in his cannabis farms to 75 years imprisonment. The convicts were charged by the NDLEA on five counts bordering on...
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Adamawa Sector Command, has said no fewer than 62 persons were killed and 624 injured in road accidents between January and September 2021 in the state. Mr Utte Boyi, the Sector Commander, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Friday in Abuja celebrated Alaafin Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III as he clocked 83 years, In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Lanre Lasisi, Gbajabiamila described the traditional...
…Restates 97% readiness level. By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC’s) plan for Fifth Generation (5G) technology deployment in the country continues to gather momentum with the Commission confirming that its readiness to begin full implementation is at 97 per cent. The Executive Vice Chairman of...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday, granted a motion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking to discontinue a suit against the Kogi Government. EFCC had brought the suit, seeking an interim order to freeze the sum of N19.3 billion bail out fund, in the...
An explosion struck a mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Friday, with casualties feared, local broadcasters reported. There are no reports yet as to the exact number of people who may have been wounded or killed, and no group has immediately claimed responsibility. A suicide bombing...
Husband of slain Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop, Ibrahim Rotich, has been arrested over the murder of the record-breaking runner who was stabbed to death in an incident that has shocked her home country and the world of athletics. The Department of Criminal Investigations revealed that Rotich was arrested on...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in southern California for a non-coronavirus-related infection, his spokesperson said Thursday. The 42nd U.S. president was admitted Tuesday evening to the University of California Irvine Medical Center, southeast of Los Angeles downtown, Clinton’s spokesperson Angel Urena tweeted. Clinton, 75, “is on...
A total of 56 veterans were arrested on Thursday night after South African police rescued three officials who were held hostage. The Liberation Struggle War Veterans blocked Defense and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise, her deputy Thabang Makwetla, and Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele from leaving a meeting,...
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has been working steadily to digitalise operations at all port locations in the country, towards optimal efficiency, elimination of corrupt practices and service excellence. The Acting Managing Director of the NPA, Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko, disclosed this in a statement signed by Mr Olaseni Alakija,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – No fewer than six COVID-19-related deaths with 226 new confirmed cases across 14 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has been recorded on Thursday. This is according to the latest update released by The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC)...
A federal lawmaker, Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North-Central) has assured Nigerians that the various security challenges facing country will soon be over. Sen. Wamakko listed the challenges to include kidnapping, banditry, cattle rustling and insurgency. A statement by his Media Aide, Hassan Sanyinnawal, quoted the erstwhile governor of Sokoto...
By HARUNA AHMED, Yola – Operatives of The Adamawa State Police Command have arrested 4 suspects for allegedly kidnapping a nursing mother, identified as Hauwa Umaru and her daughter. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued to correspondent on...
“Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see and be.” – Trudy Symeonakis Vesotsky Beliefs are a part of life. Without them we would be missing a very important faculty of the mind, which is thought and/or ability to reason and ascribe intentions to intangible and tangible things....
October is International Cancer Awareness Month (ICAM) with special emphasis on breast cancer. It is an important month to once again draw the attention of all, to the waste of precious lives and resources as a result of the huge gap in Nigeria’s health infrastructure especially the infrastructure for...
I once attended an event that kept me until late at night. While going back home around 8:30, there was this young girl of about 10 or 11 years, who was running helter-skelter in order to catch up with cars so as to sell her sachet water mindless of...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called on states government to think out of the box in raising their respective Internally Generated Revenues. VP Osinbajo made the remark at the maiden edition of Ekiti State’s maiden investment forum in Ado-Ekiti. “Thinking differently, there is a need for a sub-national to...
Nasarawa state Gov. Abdullahi Sule said on Thursday that the country’s major challenges and problems could be resolved with its gas reserves. Gov. Sule said this in Abuja at the 6th Triennial Branch Delegates Conference/Award of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) PENGASSAN, under the theme: “Petroleum Industry Act...
Prof. Attahiru Jega, a former Chairman, Independent National Election Commission (INEC), has said the electoral transmission of results will reduce the rate of election fraud in Nigeria, He said this in an interview with newsmen on the sideline of the ongoing ECOWAS Parliament’s High-level Seminar on Thursday in Winneba,...