Hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys kidnapped last week from a boarding school have been released, local authorities have told the BBC. A spokesman for the governor of Katsina state, where the boys were taken, said the 344 freed were in good condition and expected home within hours. None of the kidnapped group were killed, the spokesman…
A fish trader, Mrs Toyin Bello, has petitioned a Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her 16-year-old marriage to her husband, Dotun Bello over allegations of 10 years of sex starvation, lack of productivity. Toyin told the court on Tuesday, that she compromised her Christianity to conceive for another man to shield her husband from…
Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, disclosed during a special court session, the High Court held to mark the commencement of its 2020/2021 legal year why the court froze the bank accounts of #EndSARS protesters. A Federal High Court in Abuja had frozen bank accounts belonging to individuals who promoted the…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a suit challenging the validity of the All Progressive Congress’ governorship primary elections that produce d Governor Rotimi Akeredolu as the candidate of the party for the October 10 governorship election. Akeredolu of the APC won the governorship poll after securing a total of 292,830…
Five years of nutrition action plan that will help to reduce hunger and malnutrition across the country has been approved by the federal government. Spokesperson to the Vice President Laolu Akande, said the plan was approved by the National Council on Nutrition which is chaired by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The plan will help in…
We also note that most of the efforts to discover and produce vaccines for the virus have been concentrated in Europe and America, China and Russia, and that virtually all the proposed doses of Covid-19 vaccines have already been bought by wealthy countries, leaving little hope for Africa and other developing countries to access these…
The Auditor-General of the Federation report has revealed how some National Assembly members, who were on an oversight duty to the Corporate Affairs Commission, ensured that the agency coughed up N27million for the training expenses of the lawmakers, outside its statutory budget. The lawmakers, according to the AuGF 2017 report, requested the CAC to sponsor…
There has been a report that a gas pipeline along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has just developed a fault, resulting in leakage from the facility. The leakage is said to be causing panic among residents of Arepo, Magboro, where the gas leakage was detected. The fault was detected around Coleman wire factory and not far from…
Wonders of the century has scientists are bringing innovation from space to the earth. Just has Jesus turned water to wine in Galilee, Scientists are turning waste product of the body to drinkable clean water. Scientific research to improve life aboard the ISS has led to countless developments in space technology, but it has also…
Telecommunications operators in Nigeria have been issued an ultimatum of two weeks to shut out all Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards that are not linked with the National Identity Numbers (NIN) The Nigerian Communications Commission threatened to withdraw the license of any telecom company that shunned its directives. We were made to understands that the…