A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra State capital has sentenced Chinonso Chinaemelu, 27-year-old, and Okoye Christian, 20-year-old to one-year imprisonment respectively for vandalising a distribution substation belonging to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company Plc. This development was made known by the Head, Corporate Communications, EEDC, Emeka Ezeh, in a statement on Thursday….
Sam Bankman-Fried – also known as SBF – has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing billions of dollars from customers of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. After a two hour hearing the judge, Lewis Kaplan, said Bankman-Fried knew what he was doing was criminal and regretted making a bad bet about the likelihood…
Business activities were paralysed in some areas in Ile-Ife, Osun State, as Obatala adherents took Oro procession to streets within the metropolis. The traditionalists had announced a five-hour curfew beginning from 2pm to 7pm on Wednesday in some areas in Ife town to enable the smooth passage of the Oro procession. The leader of the…
Four people, including a teenage girl, were killed and at least five injured after a man went on a stabbing spree at multiple addresses in the US state of Illinois, police have said. The stabbings took place on Wednesday afternoon, Rockford City Police said in a statement, adding that a 22-year-old suspect was taken into…
Pursuant to an earlier approval by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for the establishment of Mobile Courts in all states and the FCT for quick dispensation of matters relating to harmful practices and other social vices against Nigerian women and girls, the Osun State Government has concluded plans to establish Mobile Courts in the state, in…
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has shut down a branch of a popular food outlet, KFC, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos State. FAAN stated this on Thursday in a statement signed by its Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Mrs Obiageli Orah. The statement, titled, ‘FAAN shuts down KFC outlet at MMIA,’ noted…
A monster fundraiser for one, a tribute to a fallen police officer for the other, President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump will be on the campaign trail in New York on Thursday. The 81-year-old Democrat Biden will take part in a fundraising evening alongside two of his predecessors, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama….
A 48-year-old evicted tenant, Paul Orizu, was arraigned by the police before the Ebute-Metta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Wednesday for stealing electrical fittings worth N500,000 from his former apartment. The defendant is facing charges of repossession, breach of peace, and stealing preferred against him by the police. The prosecutor, Supol Chinalu Uwadione, told…
● Osun to Issue Executive Order to Free Unjustly Incarcerated Women ● Osun to Set up Mobile Courts on Sexual Based Violence ● Federal Ministry to Empower Osun Women with Empowerment Equipment – The government of Osun state and the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs today engaged in marathon Intergovernmental discussion on women development with…
As part of efforts to rid the state of dirtiness and indiscriminate dumping of refuse, the Osun State Government has reintroduced monthly environmental sanitation in the state. The government also introduced environmental Marshals that will be in charge of the street cleaning across the 30 local government, including area office. Speaking with newsmen in Osogbo,…
