Two yet -to -be- identified women died on Tuesday when four vehicles involving two trucks , a tanker and a commercial bus collided in the Anthony area of Lagos State . Four victims who were reportedly rescued from the scene of the accident sustained varying degrees of injuries and were taken to the hospital for […]
Attempts to appeal the death sentence given to a musician , Yahaya Sharif- Aminu, was stalled again on Tuesday as officials of the Upper Sharia Court in Kano State refused to make available certified true copies of the judgment . Sharif- Aminu, who was sentenced to death on August 10, 2020, for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, […]
THE Imo State Governor , Hope Uzodinma, on Tuesday said the choice of who emerged presidential candidate in 2023 would be based on political party and not by tribe. Uzodinma said this in an interview with State House correspondents after a meeting he had with the President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd . […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed door with Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the State House, Abuja. Speaking to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Gbajabiamila stated that he was in the villa to seek the blessing of the president over his planned trip to Ghana on Wednesday […]
• Labour vows to resist , warns NERC against playing the ostrich • Hike can contract economy in Q3 & 4 – MAN • Inspire confidence in consumers through metering – LCCI Electricity consumers , labour unions and key stakeholders in the economy on Tuesday kicked against increase in electricity tariff implemented by power distribution […]
Police in the United States have shot dead another black man , who they said had a handgun but had dropped it during a violent altercation in Los Angeles, triggering fresh outrage as tensions soar over racism and police brutality. The man , named in local media as 29-year – old Dijon Kizzee , was […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ordered banks to henceforth pay 10% of it’s Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) as the minimum interest rate on savings deposit. The MPR is the benchmark interest rate of the CBN and it is presently 12.5 per cent. This implies bank customers will now get 1.25 per cent as […]
Former minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Tuesday, wrote to the management of Media Trust Limited – publishers of Daily Trust and other publications, demanding apology and a whopping sum of six billion, naira, (N6bn) for defamation. Femi had last week embarrassed a Cross River State Correspondent of the Daily Trust Newspaper, Eyo Charles, for […]
A Makurdi Chief Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr. Victor Kor ,Tuesday, remanded one Sunday Achir, 40, at the Makurdi Correctional Centre for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl. At the hearing, the Police Prosecutor, Hyacinth Gbakor, told the court that on June 22, 2020 at about 11:55am at Tse Agberagba, Konshisha local government area of […]
No fewer than eight people including women and children were drowned following the capsize of a boat at Tungar -Gegero in Jega Local Government Area of Kebbi State The Chairman , Kebbi State Emergency Management Agency , Alhaji Sani Dododo , disclosed this to newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday. He said , “ Just […]
