A union called on all journalists in Portugal to join a one-day strike on Thursday over low wages and job insecurity, the first stoppage of its kind in 42 years. The action came after Portugal’s leading media group, Global Media, announced a redundancy plan this week targeting 20 employees, including 10 journalists, due to a…
The 2023/2024 UEFA Champions League saw three teams from Spain, two from both England and Germany, and one from France successfully secured their spots in the last eight of the tournament. The UCL quarter-finalists draw is scheduled for Friday, March 15, 2024 (tomorrow) at the UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, at 11am UK time. Here…
A 17-year-old boy, Ojibe Chukwueze, was reportedly found dead after being alleged of stealing N100,000 from his boss in the Abijo area of the Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State on Monday. A source privy to the incident on Wednesday disclosed that the body of the late Chukwueze was found by the roadside by…
The Kano State Hisbah Board on Tuesday, nabbed 11 people who violated the Ramadan fast by eating during the day. The board’s Public Relations Officer, Lawal Ibrahim, said the persons were arrested during the annual Ramadan enforcement operations, which included searches of eateries and markets. Ibrahim said the arrests were made across the city, particularly…
The Owa of Igbajo, Oba (Dr.) Ademola Stephen Kayode Makinde enters seclusion (ibebi). Begins his 7 days seclusion rites
A Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan, on Wednesday, dissolved the 14-year-old marriage between one John Akinwumi, a commercial driver, and his estranged wife, Toyin. Akinwumi had pleaded with the court to put an end to his 14-year-old marriage with Toyin on grounds of alleged constant domestic violence and spiritual incompatibility. He told the…
••• Court cautions Nigerians A Lagos Federal High Court has sentenced one Fabian John Itafor, for hawking the Nigerian currency. Itafor was handed three months of community service by Justice Kehinde Olayiwola Ogundare after he pleaded guilty to a count-charge slapped on him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The convict, according to…
Tragedy struck in the Gbagada area of Lagos, after a yet-to-be-identified woman was stabbed to death by her househelp , in her apartment on 29, Kiniun-ifa street sawmill. No one could tell when exactly the fleeing househelp identified simply as Peter, allegedly committed the murder. But the lifeless body of the woman, according to information…
The member representing Kajuru Local Government Constituency in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Hon. Usman Danlami Stingo has raised the alarm that the local government might soon be overrun by criminal elements if no urgent and decisive action is taken to curb the activities of bandits. Moving the motion on Serial Annihilation in Kajuru…
The People’s Democratic Party in Osun State has blasted the Osun State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as inhumane, unpatriotic and delusional for denying reports of threats to peace and security in the state. This was contained in a statement released by the party media office signed by its Chairman, Hon. Sunday Bisi…
