Beyond the Headlines
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Tuesday has renewed and extended the interim order in favour of the Chief of Staff to Rivers State Government, Edison Ehie, against the Nigerian Police and other security agencies from arresting and detaining him until the substantive suit is determined. Trial Judge, Justice Sika […]
The Imo State Police Command has declared missing one Michael Nnenna of Umuoba Eziachi in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State. According to the command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye on Tuesday, Michael Nnenna is Eighteen years of age, dark in complexion, 5ft ‘6 tall, has no tribal marks and speaks Igbo and English languages […]
A 62-year-old man, Adamu Rijau is cooling his heels at the Niger state police command for defiling a minor at a cemetery. In a statement by the spokesman of the police, Deputy Superintendent Wasiu Abiodun, the incident occurred on January 30. According to the statement, information was received at Bosso Division that, on the same […]
Yemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says the foreign exchange (FX) demand for education and healthcare in the past decade has significantly eroded the strength of the naira. Cardoso spoke on Tuesday when he appeared before the plenary of the house of representatives. The CBN governor said between 2010 and […]
An Ekiti State Chief Magistrate Court, Ado Ekiti District, has sentenced a 40-year-old university former Librarian, Adedeji Ogunleye, to five years imprisonment for selling the institution’s books. Ogunleye was arraigned before the court on a two-count charge of stealing and fraud on January 9, 2023. According to the charge, Ogunleye stole and fraudulently obtained […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday sealed three alcoholic beverage producing factories in Jos, for not complying with good manufacturing practice and operating without NAFDAC certification. Mr Umar Suleiman, the Assistant Chief Regulatory Officer, Federal Task Force Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, NAFDAC, disclosed this when he led […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has frozen an account belonging to Abubakar Ahmad Sirika, brother of immediate-past minister Hadi Sirika, over an alleged N8.06 billion contract fraud in the Federal Ministry of Aviation. According to a report in The Nation, the anti-graft agency made this known after the arrest of Abubakar Sirika […]
The Vice Chancellor of the Plateau State University, Professor Bernard Matau has been sacked from office. Matau was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the state university while serving as the state Commissioner for Higher Education in the last administration led by former Governor Simon Lalong. It was learnt that the vice Chancellor whose […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed two factories for producing 100-millilitre plastic alcoholic beverages and lack of Good Manufacturing practice (GMP) in Enugu State. NAFDAC enforcement operatives focused on raiding seven marked alcoholic beverage factories in two days within the state; four factories in Nsukka axis and […]
Students of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike,(MOUAU) in Abia State, on Tuesday began protests after the school management reportedly stopped many students from writing examinations over non payment of school fees. In many posts and videos on social media on Tuesday morning, students were seen protesting in the campus. In a Facebook campus […]
