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…
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…
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…
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…
Scientific research to improve life aboard the ISS has led to countless developments in space technology, but it has also brought benefits to people on Earth. Now a company that designed a water-purification system for the  International Space Station (ISS) is developing spin-off technologies with the potential to provide clean drinking water in the places…
G︎overning Board passes vote of no confidence in rector for sleeping on duty, others The Academic Board of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, has reportedly passed a vote of no confidence in the rector of the institution, Dr John Adekolawole, citing 21 grounds for its decision. The Chairman of the institution’s branch of the…
An Ota Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Tuesday, sentenced a 38-year-old man, Olaniyi Oni, to three years in a correctional centre for impersonating in a matrimonial suit. The Chief Magistrate, O.I. Oke, sentenced Mr. Oni to three years imprisonment without an option of fine. Mr. Oke said that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable…
The World Bank has approved Nigeria’s request for a $1.5 billion loan The bank said the facility was prepared jointly with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). “This country partnership framework will guide our engagement for the next five years in supporting the government of Nigeria’s strategic priorities by…
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence shows that China has conducted “human testing” on members of the People’s Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with “biologically enhanced capabilities,” the top U.S. intelligence official said Friday. John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, included the explosive claim in a long Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he…
