Butcher bags 30 days jail sentence for stealing goat
A Minna magistrate’s court in Niger State, yesterday, sentenced a butcher, Abdulrahman Umaru, to 30 days imprisonment for stealing a goat.
FIFA 2018 WC: Super Eagles will beat Cameroon in Uyo — Onazi
Super Eagles midfielder, Ogenyi Onazi has dismissed fears by Nigeria football enthusiasts, that the FIFA 2018 World Cup qualifier against Cameroon will be a hard match for the team, at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
Nigeria’s per capita tertiary education budget of N1.15 miserable – Adelusi-Adeluyi
AS stakeholders call on the Federal Government to increase education annual funding continue, former Minister of Health, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, has said that the country’s “annual budgetary allocation to tertiary education per capita remained at N1.15k.”
Anambra: Obiano to IPOB: You cannot stop the election
Governor Willie Obiano has vowed not to allow the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB repeat the mistake made by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB who dissuaded the people from coming out during the last national census.
3 soldiers sentenced to 56 years in jail over arms in Maiduguri
The 7 Division, Nigerian Army component of Operation Lafiya Dole, yesterday sentenced three soldiers to jail for unlawful possession of arms and ammunition.
No to regionalism, yes to resource control —Igala leaders
THE Biafra Reformation Movement, BRM, has said the call by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to boycott Anambra governorship election is not in the interest of agitation for a separatist state of Biafra.
Labour urges FG to constitute wage, pension review c’ttee
THE Federal Government has been urged to constitute a minimum wage committee to upwardly review the existing minimum wage and minimum pension.
Raid on Jonathan’s house: Disclose identities of informants, Reps tell NDLEA
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition, yesterday, asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to disclose the identifies of persons who tipped them for a raid on a property belonging to the former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan.
Suspension virus: A forcible rape on Democracy (1)
There should have been the need to impose a sanction on those elements that virtually succeeded in putting the party on the path of perdition, if only as a deterrence against future occurrence
FG emerges with new petroleum policy
The Federal Government has emerged with a new National Petroleum Policy, targeted at bringing about restructuring, new legislation and value addition in the oil and gas industry.
Kogi Gov to deliver lecture on civil service reform
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State will deliver a lecture on Nigeria Civil Service Reform and the Challenge of a New Nigeria in Jos, the Plateau State capital, at the inauguration of the newly-elected executive of the Correspondents’ Chapel on Monday, July 31.
