A Zuba Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced a 30-year-old security guard, Emmanuel Ladami to six months imprisonment for stealing a suitcase. The Judge, Gambo Garba sentenced Ladami who lives in Gwarinpa, Abuja, after he pleaded guilty to theft…
Video Assistant Referees (VAR) will be used in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Europe, starting from September 2022, continental football ruling body UEFA said Thursday. The light-touch use of VAR at Euro 2020 was widely praised, and UEFA will…
Nigeria’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi fails to win a medal in the men’s shot put final at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Thursday. The Nigerian athlete finished 12th after throwing 19.74m on his third attempt. He fouled in his first attempt,…
Nigeria businesses may have lost N150.46bn ($366.88m) since the Federal Government’s ban on Twitter took effect in the country on June 5. This figure was calculated based on the NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown Tool. According to the tool, it costs…
Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday, ordered two dropouts of Babcock University, accused of drugging and gang-raping a woman in a hotel in Lekki, Lagos to open their defence. Reports state that…
A 43-year-old man, Ayobami Yekini, who allegedly defrauded a woman of N500, 000 on the pretext of securing her husband’s bail, on Thursday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The police charged the defendant, whose address was not provided,…
Police investigating the online racial abuse of England players following the Euro 2020 final against Italy have made 11 arrests so far. Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka were victims of abuse after they missed penalties in the shoot-out…
Kwara and Niger states are to strengthen existing collaborations to ensure adequate protection of lives and properties in the two states. Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara, made this known in a statement issued by Alhaji Bashir Adigun, Special Adviser Political…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday recorded 747 fresh cases of COVID-19 infections. The NCDC, on its verified website on Thursday morning, stated that the 747 new cases were the highest in any single day in the…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Bauchi State Command, has alerted Nigerians to a fake list of successful candidates who sought employment with the organisation in 2019. In a statement on Wednesday in Bauchi, Malam Nuraddeen Abdullahi, the…
