By Lawani Mikairu – Lagos The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, on Sunday, successfully commissioned its newly installed Category 3 Instrument Landing System, ILS, at Runway 18 Right of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Similarly, the agency also commissioned those installed at Runway 22 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Making this disclosure […]

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Monday fixed April 1 to hear an appeal filled by the Oyo State Government challenging a court order not to dissolve the 33 local government chairmen and 35 LCDA. NAN reports that Justice Aderonke Aderemi of the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan on May 6, ordered […]

Perez Brisibe – Ughelli The member representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Francis Waive, has asked the federal government to investigate and prosecute anyone including soldiers found culpable in the recent herdsmen attacks in Uwheru, Ughelli North local government area of Delta State. The lawmaker, who […]

The police on Monday arraigned a 19-year-old mechanic, Rasaq Shafiu in Abuja, for allegedly stealing handset and N5,000 cash from one Mr Emmanuel Okoli. Shafiu, who resides at Gwari village, Mpape area of Abuja, is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, stealing and assault before a Grade I Area Court in Mpape. He, however, pleaded […]

A Customary Court in Nyanya, Abuja, on Monday, dissolved a seven-year-old marriage between Ekene Odinaka and his wife Chioma Odinaka, over constant fighting. The judge, Fati Sarki, dissolved the marriage on the ground of lack of love and peace in the union. “It is on record that the respondent refused to come to court to defend […]

By Festus Ahon & Perez Brisibe – Delta Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education and indigene of Uwheru kingdom, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, on Sunday,  insisted that soldiers from the 222 Battalion, Agbarha-Otor vowed to destroy Agadama community if the community failed to produce the corpses of those reportedly killed by armed herdsmen. Muoboghare while responding […]

Two more officials sent to a cruise ship quarantined off Japan to help with on-board efforts to contain the deadly coronavirus have contracted the illness themselves, authorities said Monday. The announcement came as experts warned the next one to three weeks would be “crucial” to preventing widespread infections and as fears deepen that the isolation […]

Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane appeared in court on Monday over the murder of his estranged wife after a weekend in which he was said to be receiving emergency medical care in South Africa. In the latest twist of a saga that has gripped the southern African kingdom, the 80-year-old premier attended the magistrates court […]

Italy reported Monday its fifth death from the new coronavirus, as the number of people contracting the disease continued to mount and officials called for calm. The death of an 88-year-old man was the fourth in the northern Lombardy region, where villages have been put under lockdown and security measures enforced in a bid to […]

A South African inquiry into the forced sterilisation of dozens of HIV-positive pregnant women said Monday that their rights had been breached, and called for government action. The investigation was launched after two women’s rights organisations approached South Africa’s Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) in 2015 with 48 documented cases of coerced sterilisation. CGE obtained […]