See photograph of a boy in school uniform leading his blind dad to beg for alms on Bill Clinton Drive, Off Shehu Musa Yar’adua Expressway, Airport Road, Abuja. Photo credit: Abayomi Adeshida

An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday sentenced two men — Seun Omoilodan and Gbenga Kayode – to death by hanging for armed robbery. Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye handed down the judgment after finding the duo guilty of a three-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery and attempted robbery. She said: “The defendants are hereby convicted and sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has raised the alarm over the imminent collapse of the county’s economy, saying the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government was yet to show any sign that it has any solution to the dwindling economy.

Nigerian Comedian and United Nations Ambassador, Francis Agoda, popularly known as ‘I go Dye’ is set to embark on world tour to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. I go dye told newsmen on Wednesday that he will be taking his brand ‘I Go Dye Standing’ to other European cities, America, Canada, Asia and will be rounding the celebration in Nigeria.

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A 38-year-old woman, Mutiat Kilanko, on Thursday pleaded with an Orile Agege Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve her 15-year- old marriage, accusing her husband of infidelity and battery. The petitioner, who lives at No. 3, Pipeline St., Ile-Epo, Abule-Egba Road, Lagos, urged the court to dissolve her marriage to Oduyemi Kilanko. She told the court that, she discovered that her husband has two other wives apart from her and upon confronting him for the truth, he beat her up. She also said that her husband was not providing for the upkeep of the family but was always demanding for food.

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A worker in a game reserve in South Africa was mauled to death by a lioness while on a routine round to pump water, a wildlife spokesman said Wednesday. The 45-year-old man was killed Monday morning in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi wildlife park, in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, where he had worked for 16 years. “He suffered injuries to his neck and thigh and died instantly,” said Musa Mntambo, spokesman for the regional conservation agency, Ezemvelo Wildlife.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe has suspended 20 of its members including the Women Leader and Executives of the party in three local government areas, for insubordination and disloyalty. A statement issued by the State Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Bakabe in Damaturu on Wednesday, stressed that the action was “in line with the rules governing the party.”

Two years after they were rumoured to have broken up, Nigerian pop duo, P’square are back in the news again as one-half of the singing duo, Peter Okoye yesterday moved against their management company owned by their elder brother, Jude Okoye.

A former Managing Director of Prudential Mortgage Bank, Mr Adetunji Abudu, on Wednesday appeared before a Federal High Court in Lagos over an alleged N395 million fraud. The accused is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a four-count charge bordering on fraud. He, however, pleaded not guilty to all counts of the charge.

Lagos state house of assembly, Tuesday, through its committee on local government, called on the Transition Committees in the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDA, to prepare the 2016 Appropriation. The call followed a motion moved by Kazeem Alimi, committee chairman on local government. Alimi recommended that the council budget should be prepared and forward to the assembly for grassroots development.

Abuja: Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to stop further hearing on a suit filed by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former Minister of Aviation, Babalola Borishade and four others as prayed by the defendant’s counsel. Borishade, his former personal assistant, Tunde Dairo, and two others are alleged to have mismanaged a N5.2 billion Aviation Safe Tower contract.

“My husband rape and constantly beat me,” wife told an Orile-Agege Customary Court and prayed for her 10-year-old marriage to be dissolved. The petitioner, Mrs Temitope Salaudeen, 32, a trader, who resides at 2, CAC St., Agege, a suburb of Lagos, pleaded with the court to dissolve her marriage over alleged rape, battery and threat to her life.

The so-called Industry 4.0 concept now being embraced in Europe predicts the Internet of Things will change manufacturing as we know it.