A UK court on Friday jailed Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president for nine years and eight months, following his landmark conviction for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter. In the first UK case of its kind, judge Jeremy Johnson handed Ike Ekweremadu, 60, the prison sentence for his part in a…
A UK court has on Friday sentenced former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu to nine years and eight months in jail for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter. Meanwhile, Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice was handed four years, six months sentence while Obinna Obeta, a medical doctor got a 10 years’ sentence for…
The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Friday warmly felicitated with the Ataoja of Osogbo, His Royal Majesty, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun Oyetunji, Laroye II, on the occasion of his birthday, joining family, friends and well-wishers across the globe to celebrate an exceptional traditional leader, who exemplifies service to humanity. Governor Adeleke in…
Kano State Police command has arrested one Ibrahim Musa, a 22 years old boy suspected to have allegedly stabbed his mother to death on Wednesday evening. The State Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO) SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa stated this in a statement issued and signed on behalf of the Kano Police Command that was made available…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday said that there was a fire incident at its office in Enugu State. This was made known in a statement shared on its Twitter page. The statement said, “Fire Incident at EFCC’s Enugu Command A fire incident occurred today, May 5, at the Enugu Zonal Command of…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has paid tributes to his late boss, ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua, 13 years after his death. Jonathan, who was Yar’Adua‘s deputy, described him as a “great and selfless leader”. In a post shared via his Twitter handle on Friday, he wrote, “On this day thirteen years ago, our nation lost a great…
The Chairman of Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Osun State, Wale Adebayo has said that the President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu is what Nigeria requires to stabilise the polity, address the many discerning inequity, unfairness, intolerance, and injustices across the country and ultimately put Nigeria on the path of steady progress with every component that makes…
Arsonists, burglars or any other persons found guilty of destroying or setting any public property in any part of Oyo State on fire is liable to a fine of N2 million, DAILY POST reports. This development is sequel to a new bill passed by the Oyo State House of Assembly. The bill was passed into…
Egyptian authorities have sent over 500 students back to Sudan following the failure of two of them to provide either a passport or Emergency Travel Certificate. According to a voice note of a Nigerian official obtained by our correspondent on Friday morning, students without passports or ETC had been instructed to stay back. The official…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 is declining, following the spike in China after it country lifted restrictions. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, at the 15th meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, said it was very pleasing to see that the downward…
