One of Nigeria’s telecommunication companies, 9mobile, has upgraded its MiFi and Router offerings in affirmation of its resolve to continue enabling its customers with more affordable and super fast data. Commenting on the offers at the virtual unveiling on Tuesday, Chief Commercial Officer, 9mobile, Stjepan Udovicic, disclosed that it demonstrated 9mobile`s commitment to boosting individuals […]

The Police Command in Osun said it had secured the release of two  victims kidnapped by gunmen on the Ibadan-Akure Road in Ikire Osun on Saturday. The command`s spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, who disclosed this in statement on Tuesday in Osogbo, said the victims were released on Tuesday after the police closed in on them. […]

Alleged Taraba kidnap kingpin, Bala Hamisu (aka Wadume) will  open his defence in the terrorism charge preferred against him at the Federal High Court, Abuja, on May 18. The Federal Government arraigned Wadume and  his co-defendants on June 8, 2020 on an amended charge of 13 counts bordering on terrorism, kidnapping and related offence. The others are […]

Chairman of Ikole LGA in Ekiti State, Sola Olomimu, has assured residents of Isaba-Ekiti that two farmers shot to death in the community last Saturday would get justice. Olomimu, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ikole-Ekiti on Tuesday, said the two farmers were shot to death on their farms by suspected […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Tracka, an arm of BudgIT that tracks the implementation of government projects in various communities across the country, Monday, expressed worry over N59bn empowerment projects under Zonal Intervention Projects, ZIPs, nominated by members of the National Assembly, which Tracka alleged have added less value and impact on citizens’ welfare. According […]

Ms Catriona Laing, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, says ill–gotten money is not welcome in the UK. Laing, made this known on Tuesday, during the signing ceremony of an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UK and Nigeria for the return of a former governors confiscated assets from the UK at the Ministry of Justice. […]

An Ile-Tuntun Customary Court sitting in Ibadan, on Tuesday dissolved the 27-year-old marriage between one Abideen Adebayo and his estranged wife Sherifat, over battery. Adebayo, who sued for the dissolution of the marriage, had told the court that Sherifat and two of their four children were in the habit of brutalising him. “Sherifat is such […]

The Female Professionals’ (TPF) Bookclub , a not for profit organisation, has declared that when women are held back from economic participation, a country’s prosperity suffers. The Founder of TFP, Ezinne Ibe, made this assertion on Tuesday in Ibadan while speaking against the backdrop of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021. Ibe said that gender […]

Red hot Super Eagles striker Paul Onuachu has been surprisingly omitted from the 24-man squad for the AFCON qualifiers against the Benin Republic and Lesotho despite scoring 25 goals in 29 Belgian Pro League for this season. The Genk striker will have to settle for a place on the standby list, alongside Eagles new boy, […]

The police on Tuesday arraigned two men and a woman in a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, for allegedly fighting in public. The police charged Hamisu Mohammed,28, Naziru Suleiman,27 and  Lovely Akinbiboye,42, with disturbing the peace. They pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecution counsel, Mr Dabo Yakubu, told the court that the defendants committed […]