A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, held that the Federal Government lacks the power to deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum industry.

Ado-Ekiti – An Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a pastor, Ilesanmi Emmauel of Christ Apostolic Church, be remanded in prison for alleged rape of a minor. Magistrate Adefunke Ajibade ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody pending the advice of the state Director of Public Prosecution. Ajibade described the case as […]

MEMBERS of the Oodua Peoples Congress, in Abeokuta, said they have arrested a suspected human parts seller, Yemi Odun, with some fresh human parts in Aro community, opposite Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta.

THE Federal Government has instituted a charge before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, against a new generation bank and two of its top staff for allegedly conspiring with some alleged drug barons to conceal large sums of money, allegedly realised from illicit dealing in hard drug.

LEADERS of the delegation of Norwegian Intelligence Service and Customs officials, Mr. Kai Arild Holm, yesterday, in Lagos, said no fewer than 1,585 Nigerians were arrested and detained in Norwegian prisons between 2000 and 2012 over drug trafficking offences.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has cried out over the hurting effects of corruption and insecurity on the nation’s economy, as their effects were identified as major risk factors affecting output performance.

Jos – The Appeal Panel verifying issues of ghost workers in Plateau Civil Service says the number of the ghost workers on the state’s payroll have not yet been established. The Chairman of the panel, Mrs Leah Yarling, made this known in an interview with reporters in Jos on Tuesday. Yarling said that cases before […]

It was gory sight yesterday in Mgboshiminu community in Obio/Akpor Local Government of Rivers State as Charity Ovudah, 36, allegedly stabbed her husband to death after first poisoning his food.

NIGERIANS cannot forget the 2012 floods. According to official figures, 360 people lost their lives with more than two million rendered homeless. Some displaced people are still in camps in Delta, Kogi, and Lagos States.

Governor Liyel Imoke of CrossRiver has enjoined security agencies in the state to be proactive in tackling security issues for the state to remain the safest in the country.