A Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded a 27-year-old tiler, Qudus Kazeem, at the Ikoyi Correctional Center, for allegedly raping his employer’s wife. Magistrate Mrs Sanusi Adagun, remanded the defendant following his arraignment on a four-count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse, threat to life, obtaining money under false pretences, and stealing. Adagun, […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has challenged aspects of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report. On Monday, the NBS said the country’s unemployment rate decreased to 4.3 percent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2024, compared to the 5.3 percent recorded in Q1 2024. The report also said the employment-to-population ratio, which measures the […]
Approximately 85,000 women and girls were intentionally killed in 2023, with 60 per cent—over 51,000—falling victim to intimate partners or family members, according to a new report by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This equates to one woman or girl being killed every 10 minutes. Released on Monday, 25 […]
The Founder of IBD Hotels, Ibrahim Dende, has requested the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to allow the withdrawal of his N500m defamation lawsuit against investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo and the Foundation for Investigative Journalism. The letter, addressed to the registrar and parties in the case, dated September 30, 2024, and titled […]
The Nawfia community in Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra State, was plunged into mourning over the weekend following a gunmen attack that left five people dead. Eyewitnesses reported that the assailants stormed the town on Sunday night, arriving in a Lexus RX Jeep and a Toyota Sienna. They opened fire on unsuspecting residents, killing five […]
Few weeks ago, Centre for Science and Environment (SCE), a not-for-profit public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi, India, released its Down To Earth annual State of Africa Environment 2024 report. The report, which was released in Nairobi, Kenya, three weeks ago, highlights the intersection between water on the one hand and […]
Police officers, on Saturday, reportedly disrupted the local government election at Elekahia Primary School, Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital. According to TheCable, about 20 patrol vans carrying heavily armed personnel reportedly arrived at the scene, with the officers firing teargases into the premises of the primary school where the voting exercise was underway. Earlier, the […]
Some armed assailants on Monday night set the country home of Senator Frank Ibezim ablaze. Ibezim who is the immediate past senator for Imo North ( Okigwe zone) hails from Nsu in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo state. A video clip circulating online shows Ibezim’s house gutted in fire with a voice […]
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has lamented the security scourge bedevilling Africa, saying “Non-state actors have now taken over the security in some African nations.” Obi who called on global leaders for a leadership dialogue focused on governance, spoke in Athens, Greece’s capital, at an international […]
About 10 persons have died following a cholera outbreak in Ndibokote village of Ezza Inyimagu in the Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Among the dead person is a nursing mother, who left behind a nine-month-old baby. The Ebonyi State Health Commissioner Moses Ekuma confirmed this in a statement by the ministry’s spokesman Lucy […]
