Enugu police raid black spots, forests, arrest 15 hoodlums
The Enugu State Police Command on Sunday commenced the raid of black spots and forests areas in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area to rid it of hoodlums and their activities. The Police Public Relations...
View Article[ICYMI] Olubadan replies Ajimobi: Don’t drag me into partisan politics
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has told the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, not to drag him into “petty partisan politics,” saying that he is a monarch and...
View ArticleFG to deploy 50,000 non-graduate N-Power volunteers
No fewer than 50,000 non-graduate applicants in the N-Power volunteer programme would be deployed in late September and trained in October, the Presidential aide on job creation and youth empowerment,...
View ArticleFG to decongest prisons within two years
Mr. Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (SAN) says the Federal Government is determined to decongesting prisons across the country within the next two years....
View ArticleHarvey damage estimated at $42bn, among most costly US storms
Damages from Hurricane Harvey could put it among the top five most costly US storms ever, with failing dams and levees driving up loss forecasts, current data modelling showed Tuesday. Estimates for...
View ArticleAbuja, Kwara, others to experience flood Wednesday – NiMet
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, has predicted localised thunderstorms over the Central States of Kwara, Niger, Abuja, Nassarawa, Jos and Kaduna on Wednesday morning. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its...
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PHOTOS: Flood takes over Makurdi after downpour
John Charles, Makurdi Three days after some parts of Makurdi, the Benue state capital was flooded, the city has again been submerged in water after a five-hour downpour on Wednesday. The rainfall was...
View ArticleNECA unveils online platform to check unemployment
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, on Wednesday, unveiled an online platform, NECApreneur project, for the training of youths on entrepreneurial skills to check unemployment. Mr. Olusegun...
View ArticleAnambra polls: Chidoka receives UPP’s flag
John Alechenu, Abuja A former Chief Executive of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Chief Osita Chidoka, has promised to restore Anambra State to its pride of place. Chidoka made this promise while...
View ArticleBuhari presides over FEC meeting
Ministers at the commencement of the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday offered special prayers, thanking God for sparing the life of President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari was meeting the...
View ArticleTwo landslides kill 30 in China
Two landslides in rural areas of China have killed 30 people with at least another 12 missing, according to state media reports Wednesday. The death toll from a large landslide that struck a town in...
View ArticleCourt remands man who stabbed tea seller over N200
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday differed the sentencing of a man, Haruna Umar, until Sept. 11 after he pleaded guilty to stabbing a man over a cup of beverage worth N200. The...
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PHOTOS: Buhari hosts D’Tigress players, officials in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday hosted the victorious national female basketball team, D’Tigress, before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential...
View ArticlePolice dismiss officer who killed guest during burial in Delta
Ovie Okpare, Warri A mobile police officer, who allegedly shot dead a 32-year-old man, Mr. Fred Ejovwokoghene-Igueride, during a burial ceremony at Emede in Isoko South Council Area of Delta State,...
View ArticleHouseboy pleads guilty to stealing employer’s N20m goods
A Kano Magistrates’ Court has ordered the remand of a 29-year-old houseboy, Adamu Haruna, in prison for allegedly stealing his employer’s clothes and gold necklace worth N20.1 million. Senior...
View ArticleEvans will change his plea to not guilty – Lawyer
Ade Adesomoju Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike’s lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, has said the police coerced his client to plead guilty to the kidnapping charges before a Lagos...
View ArticleNavy seeks Niger Delta communities’ help to tackle piracy, kidnapping
Simon Utebor, Yenagoa The Central Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy, with headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has urged communities in the Niger Delta to support the Navy in its efforts to stamp...
View ArticleImohimi replaces Owoseni as Lagos Police Commissioner
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Edgar Imohimi, is set to replace Fatai Owoseni as the Commissioner of Police in Lagos According to Channels TV, Imohimi replaces Fatai Owoseni who had been in the...
View ArticleNigerians right to have voted out PDP – Rivers APC
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt THE Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has said that Nigerians took the right decision in 2015 to vote out the Peoples Democratic Party and chose...
View ArticleUCH resident doctors to join nationwide strike on Monday
The President, Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital, Ibadan chapter, Dr. Olusegun Olaopa, on Wednesday said resident doctors in the hospital would commence an indefinite strike...
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