Shina Abubakar – Osogbo The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, Osun state has placed a lecturer of the school, Olabisi Olaleye, alleged of requesting sex from a student, on half salary. The decision, according to a source close to the university senate, said the decision was taken pending the outcome of the investigation. […]

Pope Francis has for the first time promoted a woman to a junior ministerial post in the Vatican’s foreign affairs department.

ABUJA: The All Progressives Congress APC has disclosed of its resolve to drag Justice Augusta Kingsley-Chukwu of the Rivers State High Court before the National Judicial Council NJC over what the party described as her alleged connivance with the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to manipulate a case regarding the conduct of APC Congresses in the state.

Mr. Mike Aigbe, a Director at GeneSys Health Information System, on Wednesday called for a proper legal framework of digital health for Nigeria to boost quality service delivery. Aigbe made the appeal during a three-day technical conference on e-health, organised by the Lagos Ministry of Health, in partnership with the Ministry of Science and Technology […]

A Non Governmental Organisation, GEPCare Foundation, has concluded plans  to hold a summit to further discourage human trafficking.

A Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, on Wednesday sentenced a landlord, Muhammad Mustapha and two others to one month each imprisonment for impersonating a court official. The Judge, Murtala Nasir, sentenced Mustapha, Auwal Bawa and Sagir Adamu, after they pleaded guilty to conspiracy, impersonation and theft. Nasir, gave the convicts an option […]

Renowned author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has emerged  the first recipient of the Belle van Zuylen Ring, an honorary prize awarded by the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU), Netherlands.

A former Minister of Power and Steel, Mr. Bashir Dalhatu, on Wednesday, told an FCT High Court in Zuba, FCT that he lost N68.9 million to a fraudster. Testifying as a prosecution witness in a case filed by the EFCC against a businessman, Imeh Akpan, charged with two counts bordering on Criminal Breach of Trust, […]

The N32.9 billion fraud trial of alleged internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha) on Wednesday continued before a Federal High Court in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mompha is charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 14 counts bordering on fraud, money laundering and operation of a foreign […]

Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Justice Minister, Abuja. Dear Sir, PROTEST OVER YOUR ILLEGAL ORDER TO SOUTH-WEST GOVERNORS I find it disturbing your statement of Tuesday, January 14, 2020, declaring the security initiative of South-West governors ‘Amotekun’ as illegal. You also threatened that the full course of the law will […]