A trader, Emeka Nzube,34, who allegedly stole items worth N5.55million at gun point was on Friday remanded in prison by an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

Gernot Rohr, Super Eagles Technical Adviser, on Friday in Lagos announced a 24-man team list for the 2019 Nation’s Cup qualifier against Seychelles.

Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court on Friday confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s disputed July 30 victory, dismissing an opposition challenge that had held up his inauguration.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, has distanced himself from a report that he condemned Enugu State Government over non-performance.

The Bayelsa Government on Friday imposed a curfew on Twon Brass in the Brass Local Government Area of the state, where three were killed on Aug. 15.

Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo says the councillorship elections in all 645 autonomous communities in the state will take place simultaneously with the local government election on Aug. 25.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Sokoto Zone, has urged Osun and Oyo state governments to hasten measures that would bail out Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho from its deplorable condition.

FIFA Disciplinary Committee has sanctioned the President of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA), Jibril Rajoub, with a 12-month match suspension.

 The  Police Command in Akwa Ibom said its officers had killed four of the five suspected armed robbers who robbed a fuel station in Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom on Aug. 21.

The Presidential aspirant of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, Mr. Kingsley Mohaglu, Friday staged a one man protest to Owerri prison, demanding for the immediate release of 127 Pro Biafra women remanded in the prison.

A 25-year-old unemployed man, Sherif Jimoh, who allegedly stole a mobile phone valued at N150,000, was on Friday docked at an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

The accused, who resides at 10 Makoko Road, Yaba, Lagos, is being tried for conspiracy and stealing.

The complainant, Miss Blessing Agu, and her friend were coming from church after a vigil when the accused and other accomplice waylaid
them, according to the Police Prosecutor, Insp. Raji Akeem.

“The accused and his other accomplice snatched the complainant’s bag that contained a Holy Bible and her mobile phone valued at
N150, 000.

“They were, however, intercepted by a vigilance group; they all ran away but the accused was later arrested,” he told the court.

Akeem said the offences were committed on Aug. 12 at 5:00am along Makoko Road, Yaba.

The offences contravened Sections 287 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Chief Magistrate Jadesola Adeyemi-Ajayi granted the accused a bail of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum and
adjourned the case until Oct. 16. (NAN)

Governor Samuel Ortom has raised concern over his safety following the enactment of the grazing law in the state saying that he got intelligence report that militant herdsmen were planning to kidnap him along the busy Makurdi-Lafia road and thereafter torture and kill him.

The Bayelsa Government on Friday imposed a curfew on Twon Brass in the Brass Local Government Area of the state, where three were killed on Aug. 15.

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it will sanction Ondo State Television Service (OSTS) for broadcasting hate speech against Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti during the recent governorship election in the state.

South Sudan has concluded intensive preparations for the re-launch of its oil production on Saturday at Toma South blocks 1, 2 and 4.