Oyo royal fathers not part of $2.1bn arms money scam — ALAAFIN
The Oyo State traditional rulers have denied benefitting from the $2.1 billion arms fund, which the Traditional Council of Nigeria was believed to have benefited from.
Omeruo sticks with Chelsea
Nigeria international Kenneth Omeruo has declared he has not given up hope he will still play for English Premier League champions Chelsea.
CHAN: Eagles can do more than bronze — Anyansi-Agwu
As the Super Eagles prepare to storm Rwanda for the CAF African Nations Championship, Nigeria Football Federation technical committee chairman, Felix Anyasi-Agwu said the team can go all the way to the final.
Court dissolves 7-yr marriage over infidelity, threat to life
A Mapo customary court, Ibadan, yesterday, dissolved a seven-year-old marriage between Iyabo and her husband, Dare Adeyemo, over hooliganism, threat to life and infidelity.
Victim knocks down robbery suspect with car
An unidentified robbery suspect met his waterloo yesterday while three of his gang members escaped, when their victim allegedly knocked him down
Pipeline vandals disguise as scavengers, use garbage trucks
LAGOS—Five suspected pipeline vandals, said to be on the wanted list of the Joint Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, have been arrested with two dane guns, 23 live cartridges and 23 vehicles used to transport siphoned products recovered from them.
Rubber tappers mistaken for kidnappers in Delta, shot
OGHARA—MEMBERS of an Oghara-based vigilance group in Ethiope West Local Government Area, Delta State, tracking a group of kidnappers have shot two rubber tappers, Messrs Raymond Dowe and Happy, working for a contract staff of Pamol Rubber Company.
Coalition of rights groups condemns Abia appeal decision
COALITION for Civil Societies for Credible Election, CCSCE, has condemned what it called “the spate of controversial, incoherent and varying judgments coming from the Court of Appeal,” noting that the trend was “worrisome and disturbing.”
Ecobank’s MyMall to empower 62 SMEs
Financial services provider, Ecobank, recently launched MyMall, an online trading platform to empower over 62 Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) operators already enlisted on the platform.
FOREX hardships cripple tricycle assembly plants
DIFFICULTY to accessing foreign exchange to bring in Completely Knocked Down (CKD)parts have started crippling tricycle and motorcycle assembling plants in the country with spillover effects on outsourcing companies that supply labour to the industry.
Missing budget: Senate sets up search c’ttee
ABUJA — SENATE President, Dr Bukola Saraki, tacitly admitted, yesterday, that the 2016 budget was missing from the National Assembly, when he openly said a search committee set up by the Senate for the missing document would present its report today.
