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The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has delivered the long-awaited judgement on Ese Oruru, a teenager reportedly abducted, taken to Kano State and forced into marriage by one Yinusa Dahiru. The court presided over by Justice Jane Inyang sentenced Dahiru to 26 years in prison. Jane acquitted Dahiru on Count one but jailed him five years (count ... Read More »

Operatives in the office of the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Osogbo are grilling no fewer than eight top pastors of the Christ Apostolic Church(CAC) over a leadership battle tearing a faction of the Supreme Council apart. They are being interrogated over allegations of conspiracy, stealing, impersonation and swearing to a false oath, among others. Their interrogation followed a petition by ... Read More »

The police in Lagos have arrested a 50-year-old man Tyndale Ede for alleged defilement of his 19-year-old daughter since she was 11. Eden was arrested on May 9 following a complaint by his wife (names withheld) at Ikotun Police Division. It was alleged that the suspect’s incestuous behaviour was discovered by the woman at their Kajola Street, Ikotun residence after ... Read More »

288 new cases of #COVID19; 179-Lagos 20-Kaduna 15-Katsina 15-Jigawa 13-Borno 11-Ogun 8-Kano 7-FCT 4-Niger 4-Ekiti 3-Oyo 3-Delta 3-Bauchi 2-Kwara 1-Edo 5445 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 1320 Deaths: 171 Read More »

Former Niger Delta Affairs Minister Godsday Orubebe’s wife Maureen, has been grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over a N500 million deal linked to the $1.092 billion Malabu Oil Block scandal. Mrs. Orubebe is also being investigated for alleged money laundering. She was alleged to have bought three assets from the company of one of the suspects ... Read More »

Police in Akwa Ibom State said their  anti-child theft Unit has arrested one Dr. Victor Onongha, a medical doctor, for allegedly selling a child. Dr Onongha, attached to the University of Calabar Teaching hospital, was arrested alongside a laboratory scientist, Hope Offor, and 15 others. The command, in a statement yesterday, said a five-month-old baby was recovered from the suspects. ... Read More »

The academia was the last place one would expect any stage performance from a depression script. The country is on its kneels begging to return to its previous life. And then ASUU informs that it would not suspend its strike despite the payment of salaries hitherto withheld by the federal government. ASUU insists that the federal government is not doing ... Read More »

Former Lagos State Commissioner for Public Transportation Chief Lanre Razak said on Monday that efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to contain the deadly Covid-19 deserved commendation, not condemnation. Razak, a member of the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), slammed the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for blaming the President for the spread ... Read More »

The Public Accounts Committee set up by Imo House of Assembly said Tuesday that the immediate past governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha cannot stop the House from carrying out its over sight functions including investigating allegation of missing N19.63 billion local government fund. He said that the committee functions were backed by the constitution and the rules of the ... Read More »

The immediate past Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has condemned in strong terms the demolition of two hotels in Rivers State by Governor Nyesom Wike over alleged violation of an Executive Order. Peterside said Wike had so far developed into a full-blown dictator, insisting that the latest action of the governor was ... Read More »