A carpenter, Nnana Ononaku, was on Monday brought before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly strangling his wife to death and throwing her body into the lagoon. The accused, 45, resident of number 89, Oke Eri Street, Oworonshoki, Lagos, was charged with murder. His plea was not taken. Earlier, the Prosecutor, […]
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The Federal Government has asked the Peoples Democratic Party to completes its apology to Nigerians by returning all the alleged funds looted from the public treasury during its 16 years in power. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also challenged the party to […]
The General Manager of Eric Many, Runtown’s record company, Johnson Adumike, has rubbished claims by the singer that he was set to team up with Wizkid for a song. Runtown recently gave the hint on his Instagram page when he posted some videos, suggesting he was working on a new collaboration with Wizkid. In a […]
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate has begun a fresh move to amend the Electoral Act 2010. A new bill on the amendment is to be presented and passed for first reading today, according to the Order Paper for today’s plenary. The House of Representatives had re-introduced the bill last week. The first version of the […]
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate has begun a fresh move to amend the Electoral Act 2010. A new bill on the amendment is to be presented and passed for first reading today, according to the Order Paper for today’s plenary. The House of Representatives had re-introduced the bill last week. The first version of the […]
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The National Executive Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress will take a position on the controversial issue of tenure extension for the National Working Committee led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Monday evening after a meeting […]
The European Union has given Facebook two weeks to answer questions raised by the scandal over personal data harvested from the social network, according to a copy of a letter obtained by AFP on Tuesday. “Have any data of EU citizens been affected by the recent scandal?” the EU’s justice commissioner Vera Jourova wrote Facebook, […]
New Zealand said Tuesday it would like to expel Russian spies in retaliation for allegedly poisoning an ex-agent in Britain — only it can’t find any Moscow operatives in the remote South Pacific nation. Scores of Russian diplomats have been ordered from the United States, Canada, Australia and various European countries in the wake of […]
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has lauded a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), for having the courage to say the truth about the killings by herdsmen across the country. Wike said though it was not in his habit to fast, he would embark on a […]
Trading activities in the Treasury bills space was largely bearish, as the yields on the one-month, three-month, six-month and 12-month instruments dropped by 1.64 per cent, 0.06 per cent, 0.06 per cent and 0.06 per cent, respectively while the yield on the nine-month instrument dipped by 0.03 per cent. Consequently, the average Treasury bills yield […]
Ronald Koeman claimed his first win in charge of the Netherlands national team as the Dutch cruised to a comfortable 3-0 friendly victory over an uninspired Portugal in Geneva on Monday. The three-time World Cup runners-up have failed to qualify for this year’s finals in Russia, but Koeman’s second game at the helm saw goals […]
New Zealand said Tuesday it would like to expel Russian spies in retaliation for allegedly poisoning an ex-agent in Britain — only it can’t find any Moscow operatives in the remote South Pacific nation. Scores of Russian diplomats have been ordered from the United States, Canada, Australia and various European countries in the wake of […]
Raheem Sterling has vowed to finally emulate his blistering Manchester City form in an England shirt as the electric winger eyes redemption at the World Cup. Sterling’s last taste of a major international tournament was a bitter one, but the forthcoming World Cup in Russia has the potential to be a far more uplifting experience. […]
The Ohanaeze Youth Council, the youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-political body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has backed Danjuma’s self-defence call. OYC President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, on Monday in a statement in Enugu, said the Igbo youth organisation had identified self-defence, in the form of armed resistance as the most effective panacea for herdsmen attacks. Isiguzoro […]
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The lawmaker representing the Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu, has written the Independent National Electoral Commission over the Ogun State Executive of the Peoples Democratic Party. He wrote to the commission against the backdrop of a recent judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos, which directed […]
Iceland announced on Monday it will stage a diplomatic boycott of the football World Cup in Russia over the poisoning of a former double agent in Britain, AFP reports. Nigeria are in Group D of the World Cup alongside Iceland, Argentina and Croatia. “Among the measures taken by Iceland is the temporary postponement of all […]
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The National Assembly will today (Tuesday) and Wednesday hold a public hearing on the 2018 Appropriation Bill. The hearing is jointly organised by the Senate and House of Representatives’ Committees on Appropriations, according to an advertisement published in some national daily newspapers on Sunday. The hearing will take place at the National […]
Dr Lateef Olatunji (Rector, The Federal Polytechnic Offa) Yes. Technical education in Nigeria is not without its challenges such as inadequate funding, infrastructural deficiency, Nigeria’s epileptic power supply, inadequate laboratories and workshops as well as disproportionate emphasis on business. Our teachers also lack modern tools to impart knowledge. Despite these inhibitions, Nigerian technical institutions are […]
Femi Makinde, Osogbo A civil rights group, known as the Campaign for Democracy and Workers’ Rights, has accused the management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife ,of allegedly masterminding the arrest, arraignment and detention of five students of the university at the prison in Ile-Ife, Osun State. The five students, namely Oyedeji Samson, Gbenga Oloniniran, […]
Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta Hundreds of students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, stormed the institution on Monday morning and shut the main gate leading to the school, thus denying academic and non- academic staff access to the campus. Academic activities were paralysed as many students who had turned up for lectures were ordered […]
Theophilus Onojeghen, Warri The apex socio-cultural umbrella of Urhobo people, Urhobo Progress Union, has saluted sprinter Blessing Okagbare for breaking Mary Onyali’s 22-year-old 200m African record at the 2018 Wes Kittley Invitational in Texas on Saturday. Okagbare ran 22.04secs to erase Onyali’s 22.07secs African record in Switzerland in 1996. In a statement on Monday by […]
Friday OLOKOR, Jos The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos, Prof. Sebastian Maimako, has ordered members of staff of the institution who own cows on campus to relocate them immediately. The vice-chancellor gave the order during a symposium themed, ‘Herdsmen-farmers clashes today: Ecology, class and categorical politics in contemporary Nigeria’, organised by the the institution’sbranch […]
Festus Abu Serbia coach Mladena Krstajic says his team will have to raise their game to overcome a physical battle against Nigeria in their friendly match at The Hive Stadium in London on Tuesday, but believes they can play themselves to victory. Serbia lost 2-1 to Morocco in their Russia 2018 World Cup preparatory fixture […]
Prestige Otaben Kwara United coach Abubakar Bala has expressed his delight at his first win since he took charge of the relegation-threatened side. The Kwara State Government-owned team beat Kano Pillars 2-1 in their Premier League match in Ilorin on Sunday, and Bala says he is confident the Harmony Boys will avoid the drop at […]
Plateau United General Manager Pius Henwan has apologised to sports presenter Ferdinand Mbum of Jay 101.9 FM in Jos who was assaulted and abducted allegedly on his orders on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mbum was assaulted and abducted after his report about the happenings in the Premier League club. The presenter […]