Police in Imo State have arrested a nurse, Ngozi Eboson, for allegedly selling two children to one Mrs. Chinyere Ohanyere, popularly known as Madam Chichi. A police source told our correspondent on Monday that operatives of the state command swooped on the nurse at the Owerri West area of the state. The nurse was said […]
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has insisted that granting amnesty to bandits is the solution to stopping the bloodshed in the northern regions. Gumi, who has been calling for amnesty for bandits, said labelling bandits as terrorists will compound “a very simple problem”. Speaking during the enrolment of the third group of students into the free orphans’ […]
Big Brother Naija Season 6 Shine Ya Eyes winner, White Money, also known as Mazi, on the show has asked the show organisers to stop married people from participating. In a recent interview, he said: “Big Brother, you know I love you so much. “You made me a star; anything I asked, you always do […]
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay $1.638 billion to the Delta State government being 13 per cent derivative sum due as arrears of revenue payable to the oil-rich state. Justice Donatus Okorowo, while delivering the judgment, held that being a suit instituted to recover revenue accruing to the […]
Chukwuma Soludo, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), says Andy Uba, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was a domestic staff to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Soludo said this on Monday during the Anambra governorship election debate organised by Arise TV. During the debate, Soludo and Uba levelled accusations against one […]
A combination of file photos of Justice Mary Peter-Odili and a courtroom at the Supreme Court in Abuja. The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba says those who laid siege on the residence of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, will be made to face the wrath of the law. In a statement by […]
Valentine Ozigbo, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Anambra governorship election, says Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is filling the vacuum of leadership failure in the south-east. Ozigbo spoke on Monday during the Arise TV debate held for the governorship election candidates in Akwa, the state capital, […]
Many people are feared trapped as a building collapsed in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State on Monday. It was learnt that the incident happened a few minutes past 2 pm. The spokesperson for the Lagos State Emergency Agency, Nosa Okunbo, confirmed the collapse, saying, “A 25-storey building collapsed by Musliu Junction, Ikoyi, Lagos. LASEMA […]
Over 30 terrorists have been killed following a raid by joint troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) carrying out onslaughts on terrorists’ enclaves in the North East. The spokesman for the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday said the raid was part of intensified operations by the […]
The Nigerian Army says the Eastern Security Network, an outfit of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is behind the recent attacks in the south-east region. Onyema Nwachukwu, army spokesman, said this on Monday while briefing journalists on the ongoing operation in the south-east. According to him, Chukwunonso Iherue, leader of a gang allegedly […]
