A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 35-year-old trader, Samuel Jigede, to four months imprisonment for sending fake alerts after buying goods. Magistrate Shawomi Bokkos, summarily sentenced Jigede after he pleaded guilty. Bokkos, however, gave the convict the option…
A public interest lawyer, Maxwell Okpara, has vowed to file a N20 billion suit against Twitter to be joined by the Department of State Services, DSS, for the service’s tweet describing him as an “overzealous and uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer.” The…
A Nigerian missionary priest working in Gambia, Fr. Kelvin Ugwu, has told his followers that prayers do not fix refineries or stabilise the nation’s economy. Ugwu made the assertion in a post via his verified Facebook page on Friday. The…
The Zamfara State House of Assembly has expressed deep concern over the escalating banditry activities within the state, thereby forcing the locals to flee their areas for safety. The lawmakers members decried the distressing situation during their session on Thursday,…
Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State, has approved free medical tourism for traditional ruler in the state. Kefas said the monarch will observe medical tourism in the hospital of their choice across the globe. The announcement came on Friday from…
The Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has disclosed that the intention of the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, President Bola Tinubu was not to make life difficult for the citizens of Niger. News Men recalls…
There is a heavy presence of security personnel at the Osun-Osogbo groove in Osogbo as the annual festival begins to come to a close at the River Osun bank on Friday. News Men observed that armed policemen and Nigeria Security…
About 230 miners are currently operating mining businesses across the 16 local governments in Kwara State. News Men gathered that despite several requests by the state government asking them to revalidate their licenses and pay royalties to the authorities, they…
The Oyo State House of Assembly has enjoined the Commissioner of Police in the state, Adebola Hamzat, to carry out a detailed investigation into the recent clash between two rival gangs in Ibadan. The House made this disclosure on Thursday.…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Thursday, expressed dismay to dissolve the governing councils in the country’s universities by the federal government. The union described dissolving the governing councils in the universities as an obnoxious one without completing…
