Imo retirees urge FG to intervene over unpaid pensions
Retirees in Imo under the aegis, Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), have appealed to the Muhammadu Buhari -led All Progressives Congress (APC), to intervene and monitor the use of the bailout and all...
View ArticleGlobal Fund gets Chevron’s N2bn to reduce HIV infections, boost treatment
Chevron •Delta, Bayelsa, Ondo, Lagos among beneficiaries Determined to reduce estimated 220,000 new Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) infections, 160, 000 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...
View ArticleWinners emerge in F&D’s Karaoke contest
The winners Winners have emerged in the F&D Speakers three-week Karaoke competition. The event was to deepen the firm’s relationship with its Nigerian consumers. During the promo, shoppers were...
View ArticleAlumni make case for girl -child education in Edo
The Saint Maria Goretti Girls’ Grammar School Old Girls Association (SMAGOGA) has called for investment and encouragement in the girl -child education, a development it said would boost national...
View ArticleSuspected hoodlums hack man to death
Suspected ritualists have hacked a certain Osasu John Omoruyi to death in Benin City, the Edo State capital. The victim, it was learnt, was abducted from a popular drinking bar along Sakponba Road in...
View ArticleProsecutor’s delay to serve defendants’ counsel stalls trial of kidnap...
Evans The trial of suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, on two separate charges in a Lagos High Court, Igbosere, could not continue yesterday, fbecauseof the...
View ArticleTo make ‘Ember’ months safe...
The suspects • Kogi police parade 16 suspected criminals The Kogi State Police Command has paraded 16 suspected armed robbers, kidnappers, cult members and cattle rustlers in the state. Parading the...
View ArticleEbonyi Muslims urges Buhari to fulfil campaign promises to South-East
The Muslim community in Ebonyi, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfill his 2015 campaign promises to the South-East region. The Muslim community in Ebonyi under the auspices of Muslim...
View ArticleOgoni clean-up: Rivers lawmaker calls for patience with FG
These decisions followed the adoption of a motion on “World Environment Day” sponsored by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment, Senator Oluremi Tinubu. PHOTO: GOOGLEMr Josiah Olu, an APC...
View ArticleRotary clubs in Germany, Holland partner to empower Badagry youths
The Rotary clubs of Dormagen, District 1810 Germany; Uden, District 1550 Holland, and the Rotary Foundation have donated sets of sewing machine worth N3.5 million to Enyemaka Ohanaeze youth development...
View ArticleTwo nabbed for allegedly buying four-day-old baby for N300,000
The Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), a multi-security task force maintaining peace in Plateau State and some parts of Bauchi and Kaduna, has paraded two women over alleged trafficking of a four-day old...
View ArticleScores escape death after petrol tanker accident
Scene of the accident yesterday Scores of persons miraculously escaped being burnt to death along the LASU-Igando road, in Lagos yesterday when a truck carrying 33,000 liters of Petrol Metric Spirit...
View ArticlePoliceman killed, patrol vehicle burnt in Edo State
Cripple, seven others arrested for alleged kidnapping, robbery Gunmen suspected to be ex-militants have attacked a police patrol team by Ovia River bridge along Benin-Iguobazuwa road in Ovia South...
View ArticleKebbi residents worried over increasing cases of defilement of minors
Residents in Birnin Kebbi are worried over the increasing cases of defilement and rape in the state as a magistrate’s court sitting in Birnin-Kebbi has ordered that two accused persons, Bashir Samaila...
View ArticleIkorodu community protests against power outage
Residents of Imowokekere community in Ikorodu area of Lagos State have embarked on a peaceful protest to the Ikeja Electric head-office in Ikeja, over the shutting down of their power substation since...
View Article'Strange' disease kills 3 in Sokoto
Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal The Sokoto State government has confirmed three deaths, including two students, following a strange illness that occurred in two neighbouring houses at Mabera in...
View ArticleRotary Club donates wheelchairs to foundation
In its continued efforts to better the lives of those living with cerebral palsy, the Rotary Club of Lekki Phase 1, District 9110, has donated wheelchairs to Benola Cerebral Foundation (BCF). At the...
View ArticleOgun reunites over 200 estranged couples
As part of efforts to address effects of broken homes in the state, the Ogun State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has reunited 210 couples and provided psycho-social counseling for...
View Article15-year-old suspected kidnapper nabbed in Ajegunle
A fifteen-year-old girl, suspected to be a member of a kidnap gang, was caught trying to abduct a little child at Boundary Market in Ajegunle area of Lagos on Tuesday. She was beaten severely and...
View ArticleMan impersonates Adenuga, defrauds victim of N1 million
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 24-year-old man, Ehioboh Lucky, for allegedly impersonating business mogul, Dr. Mike Adenuga. The suspect, according to a statement by the command’s...
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