A Federal High Court, setting in Abuja, has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to unfreeze the bank accounts of the 20 #EndSARS promoters. Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the ruling on Wednesday, following the agreement reached by parties in the suit to amicably resolve the matter. Justice Mohammed,...
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A Lagos court has ordered the remand of embattled Nigerian rapper, Sanni Goriola better known as Lil Frosh, at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for allegedly beating up Okeoghene Iyomaterie, his girlfriend who is better known as Gift Camille. Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun of the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba...
A chieftain of the People Democratic Party, PDP, in the Southwest, Honourable Ajala Somide, has described as fairytales the alleged defection to APC of former Aviation Minister, Chief Olufemi Fani-Kayode. Honourable Somide noted that Fani-Kayode remains a loyal party leader and a strong pillar of the PDP who has...
The Police authority in Yobe State has arrested one Mohammed Faruk for allegedly raping a nonagenarian (90 years-old) woman on Monday, February 8. According to a statement released by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Dungus Abdulkarim, said the incident happened in Gadaka town where both suspect and victim reside....
The Executive Director, Yobe Fire Service, Alhaji Abba Adam, has said that the State Fire Service’s response had saved assets worth N1.1 billion from fire outbreaks from January 2020 to February 2021. Alhaji Adam who disclosed this in Damaturu on Wednesday, said that the assets included markets, residential and...
—-Inspects N4.7 billion reference hospital in Kogi. By: OBANSA MOMOHJIMOH, Lokoja- The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello on has formally flagg-off the All Progressive Congress (APC) membership registration and validation exercise at his country home polling unit 11 Agassa, Ahache, Okeneba ward in Okene LGA of the state....
The Biden led-administration will continue to seek to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the UK to the US to face hacking conspiracy charges, the US Justice Department says. Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said on Tuesday that the US government, led by President Joe Biden, will continue to...
Thousands of anti-coup protesters have again returned to the streets of Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw (Wednesday), following the most violent day yet in demonstrations on Tuesday. For several days now, thousands of people have been demonstrating across the southeast Asian country against a coup that truncated a tentative transition to...
Governor Muhammad Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State revealed on Tuesday that each of the 36 states of the federation had received N10 billion budget support from the Federal Government. Governor Badaru disclosed this in his remark at the foundation laying ceremony of the Kano-Katsina-Maradi railway project in Katsina. According...
The United Arab Emirates has made history as the first Arab country to reach Mars. The Emirates’ Mars mission named the Hope Probe, reached the red planet at 7:42 p.m. on Tuesday UAE time, and sent its signal back to Earth just over half an hour later. The ground...
As crude price hits almost $60/barrel, the Federal Government has asked Nigerians to prepare for another hike in petrol price because the international price has a direct bearing on the cost of refined products. The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, gave the hint at the launch...
The upper chamber of the National Assembly has rescheduled an earlier planned debate to urgently address the growing rate of insecurity which it believes might lead to tribal and religious war in the country. The Senate also said clashes among ethnic groups across Nigeria might lead to famine and...
Governor, Nasir El- Rufai of Kaduna State has said that the State’s Government has signed a first-of-its kind Memoradum of Understanding with a private medical group to deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), better known as, drones, to deliver vaccines and other medical supplies to residents of the state. The...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) said it would consider the appointment of a new Director-General on February 15. According to a statement via its website, WHO said the General Council, its top decision making body, would have a virtual meeting concerning the ratification of the new DG. “The WTO’s...
The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has vowed that bandits who disguise as herders to perpetrate violence, kidnapping and robbery in the state would be treated as criminals. Governor Obaseki stated this during a fact-finding mission to Odighi community in Uhiere ward of Ovia-North East LGA of Edo...
The immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday, faulted the party’s membership revalidation exercise, saying that the exercise as ordered by the party’s Interim Caretaker Committee is contrary to the party’s constitution. Comrade Oshiomhole who stated this while fielding questions from...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said that 400 candidates seeking admissions into institutions in 2020 admission year were caught in admission fraud, alleging that some tertiary institutions and Computer Based Test (CBT) centres were accomplices in the irregularities. JAMB confirmed that accomplice tertiary institutions were engaged...
Millions of phone users on the Glo network have an opportunity to enjoy generous free data with their loved ones during the Valentine season as the company on Tuesday unveiled a promotion to commemorate the love season. The Glo Valentine Season promotion offers subscribers up to 36GB of free...
Scores of suspected internet fraudsters known as ‘Yahoo boys’ on Tuesday stormed Ilesha/Osogbo road, Osun State, to protest alleged incessant arrest by Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). It was gathered that they went on a rampage by making bonfires on the major road and blocked the Osogbo/Ilesa road. The...
A Kenyan man has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for attempted murder after he chopped off his wife’s hands. In what was described as the most atrocious cases of domestic violence, Stephen Ngila chopped off Jackline Mwende’s hands with a machete in Machakos County on July 25,...