Senators kick against planned N5 levy on petroleum products
MOVES by the Senate to impose N5 charges on petroleum products in the country as a way of raising revenue for maintenance of roads through its Committee on Works, yesterday, suffered a major setback as senators angrily kicked against the proposal.
Cleric butchers 7-yr-old boy, buries head at Church’s altar
There was tension, yesterday, in Odokekere area of Ikorodu, Ogun State, following the discovery of the dismembered body of a seven-year-old boy, Kazeem Rafiu, at a Church building.
67-yr-old man to court: She’ll beat me to death if you don’t dissolve this marriage
“My wife will beat me to death one day if I continue with the marriage,’’ A 67-year-old man, Mr. Olawale Jayeola, told an Igando customary court in Lagos, yesterday.
Ize-Iyamu vs Obaseki: Appeal Court delivers judgment today
THE Appeal Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, will today, deliver judgment on the appeal by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, against the ruling of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld the election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Court remands former Rivers REC in EFCC custody
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has remanded former Resident Electoral Commissioner, Rivers State, Dame Gecilia Khan, in the custody of the South-South office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Port Harcourt, pending hearing of her bail application on Friday.
LAGOS SCHOOL KIDNAP: 14 days after; Parents storm Ambode’s office, demand victims’ rescue
Amid wailing and tears, fear stricken parents of kidnapped students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, yesterday, besieged the office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to express their concern over the prolonged delay in the rescue of their children from the kidnappers’ den, 14 days after they were abducted. They demanded for their immediate rescue.
