Former football star, Robson de Souza known as Robinho must serve his nine-year prison sentence for rape in Brazil, a Brazilian high court ruled. The ex-AC Milan winger was sentenced by an Italian court in 2017 to nine years in jail for taking part in the 2013...
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The Borno Chairman of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), Ba’Lawan Ja’afar, says their main priority is to ensure total clearance of the remnants of Boko Haram and other insurgents in the state. Ja’afar told journalists in Maiduguri on Thursday that the group would continue to play its role...
By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI – Going by torrents of positive reactions and optimistic commentaries that trailed your recent appointment as the Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme(PAP), it is evident that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, spoke the minds of Niger Deltans by providing...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Lafarge Holcim Africa PLC is to Commissioned a 20km road from Mfarmosing to Odukpani junction in Cross River State. The concrete road that has lasted for over ten years was initiated during Liyel Imoke administration by the cement giant. The head of Corporate Commutation...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has said the state government is working assiduously towards attaining food sufficiency and exportation of cash crops and other farm products such as maize and cassava, among others. The governor stated this on Wednesday at the Koiri irrigation...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has disbursed N255,650,000 cash and 5,513 bags of 50kg rice to members of the Civilian JTF and hunters fighting Boko Haram insurgents alongside the security forces. Zulum performed the distribution at the Multipurpose Hall of the Government House...
By CHRISTIAN LOT, Jos – The Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office (NMCO) has seen a rise in mining license applications following the launch of its Electronic Mining Cadastre System Plus (eMC+) in 2022. The Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the NMCO, Mr. Obadiah Simon Nkom, said the eMC+ system...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Vice Chairperson, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bauchi State Branch, Sadiya Saleh, has lamented the high rising cases of rape of minors below 10 years, disclosing that no fewer than 10 cases are recorded weekly in the state. Saleh, the Chairperson, Human Rights...
The First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. has assured its customers of opportunities to experience world-class innovative banking services through the bank’s Digital Xperience centres. First Bank Managing Director Adesola Adeduntan announced this at the inauguration of the bank’s Digital Xperience centre in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday....
A divorce-seeking woman, Taiwo Olaniyan on Thursday begged a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her five-year old union to estranged husband, Michael on grounds of deception and childlessness. Olaniyan, a trader lamented that in spite of receiving normal bride price and other essential things...
The Minister of State for Youth Development, Mr Ayodele Olawande, has commended the senate for passing the NYSC Trust Fund Bill. He said that the passage is a huge boost toward enhancing skill acquisition, training and generally empower graduates who took part in the national youth service programme....
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday said the slain military personnel in Okuama, a community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, will be conferred with national honours. He disclosed this at the breaking of the Ramadan fast on Wednesday in Abuja with the Speaker of...
The Director of Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre, Dr Richard Somiari, has said that results of an autopsy conducted on deceased singer Ilerioluwa Aloba (a.k.a Mohbad) would be ready in the next three weeks or four weeks. Dr. Somiari gave the assurance on Wednesday while testifying during...
Ogun State Police Command has assured that abductors of Mr Tunde Osifowokan, Manager of the Flourishing Poultry Farm in Odogbolu, would soon be apprehended. Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Mr Abiodun Alamutu, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Abeokuta on Wednesday, said the state Police Command would...
A combined team of security operatives on Wednesday rescued 20 victims of kidnapping in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo. The team, comprising the police, military, and a vigilance group, rescued the victims from the kidnappers’ den in a bush along Lakpese Road at the LGA. The...
The Federal Government will soon fish out and prosecute kidnappers of school children, information minister Mohammed Idris has said. Idris spoke in Kano on Wednesday in an interactive session with media executives and practitioners organised by the Ministry of Information and National Orientation. He said President Tinubu had...
Access Holdings Plc says its subsidiary, Access Bank Plc, is in the process of acquiring the entire issued share capital of National Bank of Kenya Ltd. (NBK). The bank’s Company Secretary, Mr Sunday Ekwochi, said this in a notification sent to the Nigerian Exchange Ltd.(NGX) on Wednesday in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed April 22 for judgement in a suit seeking the disqualification of Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa and his deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after counsel for the plaintiff, Ifeanyi Nwosu, and lawyers to the governor and...
The Senate Joint Committee on Defence, Army, Navy and Air Force on Wednesday in Abuja met with the Service Chiefs over the killing of 16 soldiers in Okuoma Community in Delta. The meeting observed a minute silence in honour of the late 16 soldiers before going into a...
The National Consultative Front (NCFront) has called for immediate resolution of the crisis involving the leadership of Labour Party (LP) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). NCFront, a caucus in the Labour Party, made the call in a statement issued by Mr Promise Adewusi, its Director of Administration,...