A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been raped by her teacher in Namtari, a community in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Our correspondent gathered she was confirmed pregnant on Thursday by a referral centre that admitted her for care. Bashir Tahir, a member of the Adamawa Hope Center located at the state Specialist Hospital in Yola where the girl ... Read More »

Polaris Bank has unveiled its new Polaris Mobile Banking App and is offering customers, a 50% discount on all transfer fees for 30 days after registration on the app. The Bank disclosed that the new Polaris Mobile Banking App “is now available to users on both Google Play for Android devices and the Apple App Store for iOS devices”. To ... Read More »

  Some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos State on Wednesday stormed the Lagos Assembly to protest against the emergence of Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Olu Omo as the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the union in the state. The protesters carried placards with inscriptions like: ‘We say yes to union constitution; “we ... Read More »

Engr. Musa Wada has emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer for the November 16 governorship election. Musa Wada, a younger brother of the immediate past Governor Idris Wada, who also contested for the ticket, scored 748 votes to clinch the party ticket. He was closely followed by Abubakar Mohammed Ibrahim, the son of a former governor, Ibrahim ... Read More »

Bobrisky’s story is not easy to tell. The first problem is deciding what pronoun to use. By the circumstances of his birth, ‘he’ is the right pronoun, but by what Bobrisky has chosen, ‘she’ is correct. “Tani bro e? (Who is your bro?). I’m a fine babe,” Bobrisky once replied a commentator who referred to him as a man. There ... Read More »

– Shutdown Shoprite, MTN businesses – Osinbajo, Ramaphosa condemn violence – .Stray bullet kills man as police stop attempted arson South African businesses in Nigeria on Tuesday bore the brunt of the ongoing Xenophobic attacks of Nigerians in South African. Angry youths in their hundreds in major cities such as Lagos, Uyo and Ibadan stormed Shoprite and MTN offices disrupting ... Read More »

Police operatives have shot dead a protester at the Circle Mall, Jakande in the Lekki area of Lagos State over the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. A police van was set ablaze by an angry mob that had stormed the mall. A video posted on Twitter and confirmed by some residents showed a body on the floor as gunshots rent ... Read More »

Nigeria on Tuesday strongly condemns the prejudice and xenophobia and reiterate our unequivocal condemnation of all violence,” the Chief Executive Officer of MTN in Nigeria, Ferdi Moolman said in a statement. “We are against all forms of bigotry and discrimination they should have no place in the society.” Many Nigerians have called for the shut down of the telecommunication company ... Read More »

A 40-year-old teacher, Emmanuel David, was on Tuesday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, charged with sending nude pictures and videos to his 14-year-old student. David, whose residential address is unknown, however, pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of sexual harassment. According to the Prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, the mathematics teacher committed the offence between Aug. 5 and Aug. ... Read More »

The Lagos State government on Tuesday presented a N10 million cheque to the relations of a Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) official, Folashade Arogundade, who was killed by a truck on May 25. Presenting the cheque to the husband, Mr Tunde Babajide and her junior brother, Mr Ayokunle Arogundade, the Special Adviser to the Governor Mr Oluwatoyin Fayinka, said ... Read More »