Sexual Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced a 54-year-old pastor, Michael Oliseh, to life imprisonment for defiling his friend’s 12-year-old twin daughters. Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye, described Oliseh, the assistant Pastor of the Anointed Chosen Vessel Ministry in Okota, Lagos, as a “serial rapist” who took turns defiling his friend’s daughters. She held that […]
As President Muhhamadu Buhari visits Ebonyi tomorrow, a pro-saparatist group in the region, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has demanded for immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu from detention as well as a president of Igbo extraction Kanu is the leader of another separatist group in the region, […]
Minister of Transportation and All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Hopeful, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has blamed the elites for the country’s woes. He said this at the 2022 World Press Freedom Day organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Uyo, Akwa Ibom capital. “The problem of the country is not the poor man […]
Telecommunication companies under the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) have asked for upward reviews in voice calls, short message services (SMS) and data costs. ALTON said this in a letter addressed to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), citing the rising cost of running a business. According to ALTON, the proposed upward review […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has approved the sum of N2 billion to the Imo State government for the empowerment of artisans in the state. The Commissioner for Labour and Productivity, Ford Ozumba, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Owerri, while announcing the Imo 2022 Entrepreneurial Product Expo in partnership with CBN. […]
Russia said Wednesday it has banned entry to several dozen Japanese officials, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, after Tokyo joined international sanctions against Moscow over its military campaign in Ukraine. “The administration of F. Kishida launched an unprecedented anti-Russian campaign (and) allows unacceptable rhetoric against the Russian Federation, including slander and direct threats,” the […]
A coalition of youths and students drawn from different tertiary institutions yesterday took to the streets of some major towns in the country to protest the continued closure of public universities due to strike by staff unions. The people, who acted under the aegis of Fund Education Coalition, stormed the main gate of the […]
THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, replied to Apostle Johnson Suleiman, that his alleged unguarded utterance against IPOB and the Igbo nation is not part of his (Suleiman’s) calling IPOB also told the cleric to stop dabbling into politics and allowing the powers that be to use him in attacking their enemies but […]
Presidential aspirants of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South West are set to meet in Lagos on Friday to discuss the possibility of pruning down the list of aspirants or coming up with a consensus candidate, Daily Trust learnt. The meeting is being convened by former governors of Ogun and Osun […]
An explosion has killed two persons at a flow station in the oil-producing community of Izombe in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. The explosion occurred in the early hours of Wednesday at the facility operated by Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria Limited. Mr Micheal Abattam, the Police Public Relations Officer in Imo, confirmed […]
