A Makurdi Chief Magistrate’s Court on Monday remanded a 30-year old Internally Displaced Person (IDP), Titus Atime, in a correction centre. Atime was remanded for allegedly having forceful sexual intercourse with a nine-year-old girl through the anus. The police on Monday charged the defendant, who lives at Daudu IDP Camp in Guma Local Government Area…
Vigilantes in Kogi State have rescued 134 victims who were abducted from various parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The victims were rescued during the recent operations of the Kogi vigilantes in forests located in the state and some parts of Nasarawa State, a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor…
Afrobeats star, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido has sought God’s intervention ahead of a Supreme Court ruling which involves his uncle and governor of Osun, Ademola Adeleke, in being made legitimate number one citizen of the state. The Supreme Court had fixed May 9, 2023, to deliver a judgment in the July 16 governorship…
The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned further pre-hearing session on the petition the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi filed to nullify Tinubu’s election victory, till Wednesday. The court equally fixed the same date for another petition by the Action Peoples Party, APP, while it adjourned the case of the…
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will fix Nigeria with God’s help. Adeboye gave this assurance at the monthly thanksgiving service at the RCCG Headquarters in Ebute-Metta. The cleric, represented by his Special Assistant, Pastor Dele Balogun, said Nigeria would…
Activities marking the 50th anniversary of creating the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme commenced nationwide with a Unity Walk to kick start the chain of events that will last for one week. In Yobe, the NYSC State Coordinator, Mrs Hafsat Yerima led hundreds of corps members and members of staff on a walk through…
Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) on Sunday condemned sensational reporting in the media of an aircraft belonging to Max Air that had tyre burst during landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. AON said in a statement by its Vice President, Mr Allen Onyema, that the aircraft took off from Yola Airport and had…
Prices of some foodstuffs, particularly tomatoes, palm oil and cassava flakes, popularly known as garri, have continued to increase in Enugu’s major markets. NAN correspondent, who conducted a market survey in Enugu on Monday, reports that the prices of foodstuffs increased significantly between April and May. A big basket of tomatoes now sells for between…
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has said that it is time for Africans to begin to write the history of their race and people to correct some erroneous impressions created about them, as well as the distortion of historical facts by some foreign writers. According the monarch, the step also become necessary to…
The corpse of a missing Islamic cleric based in Ifon-Orolu, Osun State, Kazeem Lasisi, has been found floating on the Owala River. The state police command has therefore launched a manhunt for the prime suspect said to be a friend of the deceased. According to sources in Ifon town, the prime suspect and the deceased…
