The baby delivered in prison by Kemisola Ogunniyi, an 18-year-old girl detained over #EndSARS protest has been christened. Among those who attended the event was the wife of the Ooni of Ife, Olori Naomi Ogunwusi. The Ondo State High Court sitting at the Olokuta Medium Prison in Akure had on Tuesday granted Kemisola bail in…
Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier-General Shuaibu Ibrahim, says about 1,000 corps members nationwide have been blocked from relocating to another choice of state. He said the relocation was free and allowed even though it must be on health, marital or insecurity grounds. Ibrahim said over 1,000 corps members tried to deceive the staff to…
Hassan Magaji, a baker in the Galadimawa area of Kaduna State, has confessed to supplying bread to bandits. It is not clear if he was referring to students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, who spent over a month in captivity, or the College of Mechanisation students in Afaka. “I observed that whenever they kidnapped many people,…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has been asked not to let off the hook a former acting Director, Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO), Oshodi, Lagos State, Mr. Chima Igwe, who was accused of serial manipulation of his educational status to exploit the system for personal gains. The former FIIRO…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have foiled attempts by a 23-year-old secondary school leaver, Iwuyi Princewill Chukwuka and a Europe based Nigerian, Peter Mkwo to export nine kilograms of skunk and methamphetamine through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja to Turkey and Belgium respectively. A statement released by Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the…
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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says Governors in the country lack the powers to fix petroleum prices. He stated this on Friday evening while featuring on a PUNCH Live interview programme. Recall that a committee set up by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum led by Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, recommended a petrol price of between N408.5 per…
In an interview of TheSun with National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, these salient points were made. •People hate us because of Buhari, but president has done nothing for us •Southern govs are confused jokers National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo has dismissed the ban on open grazing declared…
The Federal Government has reintroduced COVID-19 restrictions across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Dr Mukhtar Mohammed, declared that this new directive is to take effect by midnight of Tuesday, a member of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, . Mohammed, who is the Head of Technical Secretariat of the PSC, made the announcement while briefing…
A Kubwa Grade I Area Court, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), recently ordered a 17-year-old housewife, Khadija Akarami, to return to her matrimonial home. According to newsmen, delivering judgment, the judge, Muhammad Adamu, held that Khadija, in her testimony admitted to introducing her 51-year-old husband, Abubakar Aliyu, to her parents as her fiancé before they eventually got married. Adamu, however, made his ruling based on the petition…
