Beyond the Headlines
The management of the Federal Government College, Ijaniki, Lagos State, has denied allegations of covering up some students caught absconding from school to lodge female classmates in a hotel for sex romps. The Principal, Mrs Tofunmi Akamo, who spoke to our correspondent on Wednesday, said the students, numbering six, were picked up from the […]
The Peoples Democratic Party chieftains, including a former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (State), Jumoke Akinjide, and a former Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Wole Oyelese, on Wednesday, campaigned for the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Others who campaigned for the former vice president under the auspices […]
Friday 6 January 2023 Okorocha debunks dumping APC for PDP Two senior lawyers want EFCC scrapped How Lagos policeman, ‘ministry’ paid N185,000 for newborn, mother demands baby I begged rapist to use condom – Married nurse Osoba rallies support, as Abiodun kick-starts campaign for re-election 2023: Second Niger Bridge enough for South-East to vote […]
… Comdem the brutal killing spree of Obosi PG and 9 others in Awka on 2nd and 3rd Jan 2023 respectively. •Says About 91 Kidnappings Took Place From October-December 2022. The Anambra Youth Vanguard has decried the high degree of crime in cities especially the kidnapping and outright killings of innocent people in the State. […]
….Condemns inspite of killings in Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi etc. The Tik Tag Security Vanguard (TSAV), has lamented that the 2022 Christmas and New Year season was the worst ever celebrated in the South East due to high incidence of insecurity and killings in the zone. The group in a statement yesterday said : ” This […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress duly informed the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, of the decision of the ministry’s Office of the Registrar of Trade Unions to reject the four years audited reports of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, The PUNCH reports. The PUNCH reports that ASUU had accused the Federal Government […]
The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of five policemen over the extortion of a student, identified simply as Ibrahim, along the RCC, Old Ogbomoso Road, Oyo State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, who confirmed the development to our correspondent on Wednesday, said investigation was ongoing. He said, “We […]
Patience Oniha, director general, Debt Management Office (DMO), says the incoming administration would inherit about N77 trillion as debt by the time President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure ends in May. Oniha said this while fielding questions from journalists at the public presentation and breakdown of the highlights of the 2023 appropriation act in Abuja on […]
The Delta State Police Command has smashed a kidnap gang that specialised in luring ladies through Facebook to gang rape and blackmail them. Consequently, three suspected members of the syndicate, including a lady, have been arrested. The syndicate’s modus operandi, as gathered, was to get acquainted with unsuspecting ladies on Facebook. Thereafter, they would […]
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said yesterday that the Federal Government was borrowing money to fund petrol subsidies, insisting that the subsidy regime had become totally unsustainable. Ahmed, who disclosed this at the public presentation of details of the 2023 budget in Abuja, stated: “Fuel subsidy cost was a […]
