Maiduguri has reportedly been off the national grid for two months as a result of some power stations and transmission lines outside the city being bombed by Boko Haram. Channels Television reported that when repairs commenced, the insurgents laid land mines which injured officials of the Transmission Company of Nigeria. While repairs have progressed under…
A certificate forgery case filed by the All Progressives Congress and one its members, Mr Williams Edobor against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has been dismissed by a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja. The three-man penal of justices of the court led by Justice Stephen Adah in a unanimous judgement, dismissed the lawsuit on…
Three policemen have been feared dead after being shot by unknown gunmen at Neni junction in Anaocha local government area of Anambra State. The Nation reported that their security vehicle was also burnt by the assailants. It was also learnt that three Naval officers were also killed at Awkuzu in Oyi local government area. It was…
Armed bandits, on Thursday March 18, invaded a market in Yar’ Tasha community, Dansadau district in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, razed stalls, killed at least one person and injured many others. It was gathered that the armed men stormed the market on motorcycles and opened fired on traders. The market holds every Thursday…
An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority LASTMA, Obasu Segun Godwin, has been killed by a commercial bus driver along Anthony road on Tuesday, March 16. A statement released by the General Manager of the agency, Olajide Oduoye, says Obasu and his colleague, Adeniyi Hakeen, were attacked by the commercial driver while…
An appeal filed by the Attorney General of Imo State and forty others challenging the ruling of an Owerri Federal High Court which granted Senator Rochas Okorocha the leave to amend processes filed before the Court, has been dismissed by a Court of Appeal. The three man panel led by Justice Dattijo Yahaya on Wednesday March 17, dismissed the…
Justice Bennett Ilaumo of an Akwa Ibom state high court has sentenced a 40-year-old-man, Aniekan John Udom, to life in prison for raping an 8-year-old boy in Uyo in August 2020. While being arraigned in court, the state prosecutor, Maria Akpan told the Court that Aniekan was caught by the victim’s lesson teacher while committing the…
US President, Joe Biden has labelled Russian president Vladimir Putin, a ‘killer’ and promised that the Kremlim will “pay a price” for interfering in the 2020 U.S. elections. Since Biden took over the White House in January 2021, he has pledged to take a hard line against the Kremlin, which has a history of attempting…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery in Rivers state. The approval came on Wednesday March 17, at the 38th virtual FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva confirmed this while…
Three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) have been remanded in a correctional centre for alleged arson and murder while effecting the arrest of alleged Ibarapa kidnap kingpin, Iskilu Wakili. The OPC members identified as Awodele Adedigba, 45; Dauda Kazeem , 38, and Hassan Ramon, 33. were arraigned on three counts of conspiracy, murder and arson.…
