Beyond the Headlines
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has appointed some commercial banks as agents to recover N1.8 trillion from accounts of Messrs MultiChoice Nigeria Limited (MCN) And MultiChoice Africa (MCA). This was contained in a statement signed by FIRS Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami. The statement confirmed the decision to appoint the banks as agents and freeze […]
Airline operators in the country must refund the full cost of travel tickets to passengers after a two-hour delay, the Federal Government has said. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made this known on Thursday at the weekly State House Briefing in Aso Villa, Abuja. He read some of the rights of aviation passengers at the […]
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde. The bail granted was in the sum of 200 million naira (N200,000,000) and two sureties in like sum, who also must be resident in the Federal Capital […]
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has assured he would be released soon. He said there was no strong allegations to convict him, urging Biafrans to be patient and prayerful. “We’re in high spirit that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will soon come out of detention sooner than […]
The senate committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced the screening of Lauretta Onochie, a presidential aide. Onochie was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari as an INEC commissioner. In June, Senate President Ahmad Lawan directed the senate committee on INEC to screen Onochie — eight months after Buhari sent her name for confirmation. […]
The corpse of TB Joshua, the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), has arrived at the church premises in the Ikotun area of Lagos state. The pastor passed away on June 5 at the age of 57. A special burial service in honour of Joshua has commenced since Monday. On Thursday, […]
The predicament of a set of twin sisters in the Likoko community in the English-speaking region of Cameroon has been revealed by a Facebook user, Ayisha Toginia. Toginia, who encountered the pregnant teenagers when they visited the Solidarity Hospital in Buea revealed that the girls were subjected to sexual solicitations in order to feed. She […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the police and the Imo State government of allegedly parading innocent youths as members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), insisting that the people being exhibited were not involved in ESN or IPOB activities. It said the youths were being paraded based on trumped up charges in […]
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, ordered that a 75-year-old man, Umar Isah, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old boy. The police charged Isah who resides in Kingshasha Road, Ungwan Rimi, Kaduna with unnatural offence. The Magistrate, Hajara Dauda, who did not take the plea of Isah, held that […]
The Imo State House of Assembly yesterday said that it has passed into law the Imo debt management bill, in order to provide an office for a data base to regulate Government’s borrowing. The Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Amara Iwuanyanwu, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, while commenting on the […]
