Jihadists force Syria Christian to ‘convert at gunpoint’
Jihadists who overran Syria's ancient Christian town of Maalula last week forced at least one person to convert to Islam at gunpoint and executed another one, residents said Tuesday.
Court dissolves 4-year-old marriage over smoking habit
An Ilorin Area court on Tuesday dissolved the four-year-old marriage between one Toibat Bello and Kazeem Bello over the husband’s smoking habit.
The gang of rapists who outraged India
The four men convicted on Tuesday over the December 16 New Delhi gang rape were economic migrants on the bottom-rung of the capital’s social ladder, drawn to the city to escape grinding rural poverty.
Interstate Electrics to improve electricity distribution in S/East
Interstate Electrics, the preferred bidder for the Enugu Electricity Distribution Plc (Enugu DISCO) has reiterated its commitment to enhance efficiency for effective service delivery in the distribution of electricity in South East Nigeria. This follows its successful payment of the balance of $94million required for the takeover of the DISCO.
All four Delhi gang rape suspects guilty of rape, murder
Four men were found guilty Tuesday of gang- raping and murdering a student on a New Delhi bus last December in a case that sickened India and led to tough new anti-rape laws.
Miss World organisers say Bali final ‘impossible’
Miss World organisers said Tuesday it would be “impossible” to stage the final in Bali, vowing to petition Indonesian authorities to move the event back to Java after it was switched in the face of radical Muslim protests.
Unfair FAAN bashing over Stowaway Daniel
THE stowaway simply known as Daniel recently hit the touch button for a media frenzy when he quietly slipped into the landing gear compartment of an Arik Air aircraft on the runway of the Benin Airport on August 24, 2013. The aircraft was on its way to Lagos.
60-yr-old woman raped by 27-yr-old son
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court in Ekiti State, yesterday, remanded one Akintunde Omotehinde, 27, in prison custody for allegedly raping his 60-year-old mother.
Electronic Voting Possible If…
NIGERIANS can vote electronically today if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, wants it to work. The other side to the use of electronic voting is the National Assembly, and myriad of politicians who have interests that electronic voting would not support.
55-yr-old allegedly defiles 11-yr old girl
An Osogbo Senior Magistrate Court, Osun State has remanded a 55-year-old man,Titiloye Tella, for allegedly defiling and raping an 11-year-olg girl simply identified as ‘Tapepa’ (not real name) in his (Tella) bedroom.
It’s wrong to make stowaway boy hero – NAAPE
National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, NAAPE, has criticised the award of scholarship to stowaway teenager, Daniel Oikhena, by the Governor Rauf Aregbesola Foundation.
