GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Tuesday stated that the age-long obnoxious practice of Female Genital Mutilation and cutting had drastically reduced in different parts of the State. He said the reduction was possible through various policy implementation and interventions of the State Government. Umahi stated this during the official launch of the Ebonyi State […]
Family members and friends of a 24-year-old prospective corps member, Matui Esky, who died in a fatal crash on his way to Katsina State, for the three weeks mandatory orientation exercise, cried uncontrollably as his remains were laid to rest. The burial service and interment which was held at the Christian Cemetery, Yelwa, Bauchi on […]
Nigeria’s largest telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria Communications (MTN Nigeria) Plc will tomorrow open application list for its public offering of 575 million ordinary shares to the general retail investing public at a price of N169 per share. The offer period ends on December 14, 2021. Minimum subscription is 20 shares and thereafter in multiples of […]
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the remand of a 26-year-old unemployed man, Mustapha Baba, for allegedly defiling a four-year-old girl. The Magistrate, Mrs Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered that he should be remanded in Kirikri Correctional Centre. Kubeinje, however, directed the Police to send the case […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has declared as unlawful and a violation of the fundamental human rights of the ex-Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi his banishment from Kano and forceful relocation to Awe in Nasarawa State. Justice Anwuli Chikere, in a judgment on Tuesday, held that the manner Sanusi was forcefully removed from […]
Femi Fani-Kayode, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was arrested at a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, and moved to a nearby EFCC office. The former minister, who was in court over his forgery trial, was walking out after the matter was […]
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) yesterday advised President Muhammadu Buhari against releasing leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. The President had promised to consider releasing Kanu during a visit by Southeast elders, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amechi. “The demand you made is heavy. I […]
Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has demanded investigation of the visit of former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu to his client in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS on Monday. Though he avoided mentioning Kalu’s name, the lawyer said the […]
THE crisis of leadership in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, took a turn for the worse, yesterday, following the purported disbandment of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, by one of the support groups in the party, the Progressive Youth Movement, PYM. Consequently, the movement named its leader, Prince […]
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Pauline Tallen, has called for castration of perpetrators of incest and rape in the country. She spoke Monday during a news briefing as part of activities to host the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, Natalia Kanem, who visited Nigeria. Describing castration as the most […]
