Thursday, 09 January, 2025

Month: July 2020


Princess Michael is a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly tortured and left with bruises on her face and private parts by her guardian, one Mrs Yemi Awolola, at Shagari Estate, Barnawa, in the Kaduna South Local Government Area of Kaduna. Read more…


The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 600 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. The 600 new cases brought the nation’s confirmed COVID-19 infection cases to 35,454. The NCDCmade this known via its verified Twitter handle on Read more…


Akpabio wanted me to award contract for things available in store’ Court restrains police, others from arresting ex-Acting MD Rivers CP tells Wike to release her to police Scholarship budget diverted into private pockets – Witness Reps summon Akpabio, Acting Read more…


…Calls for single 6-yr tenure President, Governors…Wants part-time legislature of 54 senators, 108 reps Long before restructuring attained the status of national discourse in the past few years, few Nigerians privileged to have played a role or two in shaping Read more…


Two men have been arrested by the Niger State Police Command for butchering an 18-year-old girl after raping her. The suspects, 25 years Abdulkadir Ibrahim of Doko village and 29 years Abubakar Idris of Dabban village in Lavun Local Government Read more…


Twitter has frozen its verified user accounts following what may be the largest security breach in the company’s history, seeing a wave of high-profile figures swept up in an apparent bitcoin scam. While the platform acknowledged the series of hacks Read more…


Governor Willie Obiano has congratulated Professor Charles Egbu on his emergence as the first black Vice-Chancellor of a British University. Dr Egbu, a Professor of Quantity Surveying, will on November firstassume duties as the Vice Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University Read more…


Okwunna Okongwu and the entire family of Chief JBC Okongwu, and the larger kindred of Inyaba, Umudim Nnewi in Anambra state bid farewell to the matriarch of the family, late Sister Obiageli Okongwu. The late Sister Obiageli Okongwu lived a Read more…


The Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday reversed its order forfeiting to the Federal Government two houses in Ilorin belonging to a former Senate President, Bukola Saraki. The court, in a judgment by Justice Rilwan Aikawa, released the houses Read more…


The House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education and Services, the Ministry of Education and West African Examination Council (WAEC), Nigeria on Thursday met in Abuja and resolved to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and governors on the WAEC examination. Read more…


Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, rescued the former acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission, Joy Nunieh, from a siege laid to her house in Port Harcourt by policemen. The governor was said to have rushed to Read more…


Attorney General William Barr just hardened the Trump administration’s line on China, accusing Beijing of wanting to replace the US as the dominant economic and political global power, with the help of America’s own institutions. China is engaged “in an economic Read more…