Beyond the Headlines
Says our youths will no more believe us, they feel betrayed The lawmaker representing Logo/Ukum/Katsina-Ala Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Dr Richard Gbande, has expressed fear for his safety and that of other leaders of the constituency who negotiated the surrender of the killed militia leader Terwase Agwaza alias Gana and his gang members. […]
Two prominent Nigerian lawyers, who appeared for Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, were on Monday walked out of the venue of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry taking place at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on orders of the chairman, Justice Ayo Salami. The reason for the stoppage of […]
…….Violators will face consequences, INEC Chairman warns ……Police deploy 31,000 personnel for Edo election -IGP A foremost civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has counselled President Muhammadu Buhari to play the role of a statesman by staying neutral in the course of the exercise. This is as the party […]
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) opened trading on Monday with a marginal growth of 0.05 per cent following buying interest in Dangote Cement and 16 other equities. Speficially, the NSE All-Share Index grew by 13.64 points or 0.05 per cent to close at 25,605.59 from 25,591.95 recorded on Friday. Also, the market capitalisation which opened […]
As more reactions continue to trail the recent hike in the petrol pump price, the Federal Government says it will begin to convert cars and generators so that they can now run on gas, effective from next month. The Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva says this will be done free of charge for […]
This picture taken and released by the Vietnam News Agency on September 14, 2020 shows defendants involved in a land dispute attending a court trial in Hanoi. Two villagers were sentenced to death for murder on September 14 by a Vietnam court, after a longrunning land dispute spiralled into rare violence which left three police […]
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Ilorin zonal office, have arrested two lecturers of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa: Abdulahi Opashola and Adebisi Ademola and twenty-eight others over their alleged involvement in offences bordering on internet fraud. The twenty-eight other suspects are: Kingsley Essien; Tobiloba Adenuga; Tope Ayodele; […]
Having been invited for the third time in less than two months, the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia on Monday morning honoured the invitation to appear before the Jos office of the Department of State Services, DSS. Dr. Mailafia arrived the vicinity of the DSS office at 11.09am […]
One passenger was killed on Monday after a bus and a highlander Jeep collided with a moving commuter train at PWD inward Oshodi, Lagos. The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu who confirmed the incident said the bus with six passengers suddenly veered onto the tracks and collided with the train. “The […]
……LASU protest, cheap blackmail – Lagos govt reacts Pandemonium broke in the early hours on Monday in the Lagos State University, Ojo Campus, when members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, barred the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof Olanrewaju Fagboun and students from gaining access […]
