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A Chief Magistrates Court in Minna has sentenced a 31-year-old native doctor, Yakubu Alikwara, to seven years imprisonment for impersonation. Alikwara was docked on four counts of conspiracy, impersonation, extortion and being in possession of military kits. In her ruling, Magistrate Hauwa Kulu, ordered the convict to pay a fine …
Read More »Don’t take laws into your hands, Ooni urges Sunday Igboho
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has urged popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, not to take laws into his hands. The monarch said though Igboho has done well to speak for the downtrodden, it was time he allowed the constituted authorities including the Oyo …
Read More »Blackout looms in four states as PHED workers threaten strike
Rivers and four other states under the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Plc may be plunged into darkness following an industrial dispute that greeted the alleged sacking of 60 workers of the electricity company. This followed a resolution by the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies Union, which insisted …
Read More »NIMC workers on strike, accuses FG of covering up COVID-19 in agency
The National Identity Management Commission officials across the country on Thursday began a strike action over the fear of COVID-19 spread in the agency. The President of the Association of the Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, NIMC unit, Asekokhai Lucky, in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, …
Read More »Former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Nsikak Eduok, dies at 74
A former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Nsikak Eduok (retd.), has died at the age of 74. The 12th CAS reportedly died on Wednesday evening at the Ibom Multi-Specialty Hospital, Uyo, in Akwa Ibom State, where he was being treated for undisclosed health challenges. A statement signed by the …
Read More »Ohanaeze President-General hopeful, Obiozor, slumps in meeting
There was palpable tension on Sunday at the emergency Ime-Obi meeting of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo following the sudden collapse of the leading contestant for the group’s president-general, Prof. George Obiozor. The meeting held was called to resolve differences arising from the 40-man list of electoral committee members for the 2021 …
Read More »Rivers stampede: CP orders probe as eight feared killed, scores injured
Eight persons were feared killed during a stampede as customers of an online marketing firm, Inksnation, besieged one of its offices in Rumuodara, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Tuesday. The police, however, confirmed only two deaths and said many were in critical conditions. But eyewitnesses said the …
Read More »Lawan swears in Abiru, Dickson, two other new senators
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, swore in four senators recently elected through bye-elections in states across the country. The new Senators include Senator Adetokunbo Abiru (Lagos East), Senator Henry Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa West), Senator Cleopas Moses (Bayelsa Central), and Senator Nora Ladi Dadu’ut (Plateau South). The Clerk to the …
Read More »CJN absent from new SANs’ inauguration, Rhodes-Vivour presides
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, is conspicuously absent from the Monday’s new legal year ceremony of the Supreme Court where he was scheduled to preside over the inauguration of 72 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria. The absence of the CJN was noticed at about 10.02am when the …
Read More »Buhari condoles with Fayose over sister’s death
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose on the death of his immediate elder sister Mrs. Moji Ladeji. President Buhari in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina prayed God to comfort former Governor Fayose and …
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