Governor Aminu Masari on Saturday August 15, said that the blame for banditry should go to the country’s service chiefs and not President Buhari. The Governor of President Buhari’s home state who said this while presenting a N10 million economic empowerment cheque to 1,000 women and N7 million scholarship support cheque to 701 students in…
A labourer identified as Lawalli Bala has been arrested in Rikina village in Dange/Shuni Local Government Area of Sokoto State for alleged homosexuality and sodomization of underage boys. The 30-year-old man was accused of sodomizing 12 underage children in the night when their parents are sleeping. Bala who came to Rikina village from Zamfara and was assisted and sheltered…
An Edo Senior Special Assistant from Urhonigbe South ward 8, Faith Obasuyi has resigned from Governor Godwin Obaseki’s government ahead of the governorship election scheduled to hold in the state in September. In her resignation letter which was sent in on Friday August 14, Obasuyi alleged that recent activities of Obaseki’s administration will not lead to the actualization…
Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government has failed Nigeria. The Rivers state Governor who said this while receiving the newly inaugurated Executive Council members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt, stated that the ruling APC has failed to deliver…
Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that he got his information of a northern governor leading Boko Haram from traders in a market. The former Presidential candidate who revealed that he did not know his comment will go viral, said he got the information from “some Fulani traders”…
The Supreme Court in Angola has handed a five-year jail sentence to Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the country’s former president, for $500m fraud. The 42-year-old was accused of trying to embezzle up to $1.5bn from the sovereign wealth fund, which he oversaw from 2013 to 2018. He was later charged with stealing $500m from the…
Four judicial officers have been recommended by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for elevation to the supreme court. Two out of the four nominees were part of the panel that dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Atiku Abubakar’s petition which challenged the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2019 poll. The National Judicial Council (NJC)…
Tech giants Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are among 52 major companies that have denounced Trump’s restrictions on employment-based visas. Back in June, Trump signed into law a series of new restrictions on visas that prevents foreign workers from coming into the United States, saying the high unemployment caused by the Coronavirus pandemic was an opportunity…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that 453 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in the country on Wednesday August 12. A breakdown of the new cases across states is as follows; Lagos-113, FCT-72, Plateau-59, Enugu-55, Kaduna-38, Ondo-32, Osun-26, Ebonyi-20, Ogun-9, Delta-8, Borno-7, Akwa Ibom-6, Oyo-5, Bauchi-1, Kano-1, Ekiti-1. There are now 47,743 confirmed cases…
36-year-old Ugochukwu Obiakor was on Wednesday August 12, sentenced to 25 years in prison by an Abeokuta high court, for raping an 11-year-old girl. Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu who presided over the case in which the man pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge against him, held that the evidence presented before the court by the prosecution was tenable and…