A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti, on Wednesday sentenced a 35-year-old nursing mother, Bunmi Salau, to three weeks imprisonment for stealing a bra, mobile phone and N12,000 cash.

Former Governor of Kano state, Rabiu Kwankwaso and some other notable members of the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, may have dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC, party, reports making the rounds claim.

The Federal government is set to lose N1, 053,270,000.00 annually due to deployment of 747 non-beneficiaries of the presidential amnesty programme, an anti-corruption watch group, Critical Coalition Against Corruption (CCAC), has claimed.

Nigerian carrier, Air Peace says it will commence four-sector flights on the Lagos-Abuja, Abuja-Owerri, Owerri-Abuja and Abuja-Lagos routes with an historic all female flight and cabin crew members on Thursday.

World Igbo Environmental Foundation (WIEF) says there are over 2,800 active erosion sites threatening to sack most communities in the South-East of Nigeria from their ancestral lands.

StarTimes has, on the 29th June 2018, signed deals with both Discovery and Fox to bring high quality entertainment to viewers across Africa through TV and OTT platform.

Justice Maurine Onyetenu of a Federal High Court, sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, Wednesday, granted leave to two Nigerians, Kanmi Ajibola, a lawyer and Sulaiman Adeniyi, a human right activist in their suit, seeking to compel the National Assembly to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Presidency, however, claimed not to be aware of yesterday’s court order.

The Edo State Government says the persons behind the fake recruitment agency that defrauded over 500 job seekers in Benin City, of millions of naira, for nonexistent jobs, have been arrested by the police.

The University of Liverpool announced Wednesday it had received approval from the Department of Education to establish a specialist maths school to provide world-leading maths education for young people with a passion for mathematics.

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday dissolved the 10-year marriage between Mrs Florence Anyasi and her husband, Stanley Anyasi, over infidelity.

ABUJA: The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has assured of a credible, free and fair general elections next year, disclosing of measures to safeguard the electoral process, including tracking those behind the purported hawking of Permanent Voter Cards PVCs in some online sales portals.

Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Makurdi, has started spinal surgery and has successfully operated on five patients so far, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the centre,
Dr Peteru Inunduh, said.

The 2018 men’s world footballer of the year will be picked from a list of 10 players instead of from a list of 23 as in the past, global ruling body FIFA said on Wednesday.

Nobody in the eastern part of Nigeria and in the other parts of the country will forget in a haste the remarkable and memorable event that took place in Nsukka Diocese five years ago when a real Nigerian with nationalist credentials, a global citizen with global affiliations, affections and associations, yet with an authentic and well-honed African ancestry, Very Rev. Msgr. Godfrey Igwebuike Onah was consecrated and installed as the second Bishop of Nsukka Diocese on 4th July, 2013.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Wednesday, disclosed that Nigeria does not know its actual fuel consumption and has recently put machinery in motion to determine the actual volume of the commodity purchased by Nigerians on a daily basis.