The Police in Lagos on Thursday arraigned a 47-year-old driver, Emmanuel Shaibu, before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly damaging a shop. The defendant, whose address was not given, is being tried for reckless driving, damage and driving without a valid driving licence. The Prosecutor, Insp Kenrich Nomayo , told the court that the […]

Mr Auwal Mohammed, Customs Area Comptroller, Area ll Command, Onne Port in Rivers, has enjoined newly promoted officers of the Command to embrace the E-custom based technology

By Sola Isola Mystery, each time it happens, makes history. The rich history of Africa rides so much on some of the historic happenings and events that have occurred. One of such cases is what the Saabo Community, Oyo town in Oyo state witnessed on Monday, 4th of October 2021, at about 6:30 pm when […]

…Reject attempts to gag political parties into adopting direct primaries By Luminous Jannamike  ABUJA – Some eminent Nigerians including former Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega; erstwhile presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi; and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Olisa  Agbakoba, have hailed the Senate’s passage of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, saying that […]

*As OPEC puts oil output at 1.2 mb/d By Udeme Akpan NIGERIA’s rig count, a global index for measuring activities in the upstream sector, has increased by 20.8 per cent Year-on-Year, YoY, to 29 in the third quarter 2021(Q3’21) from 24 recorded in the corresponding period of 2020, according to the reports of the Organisation […]

By Mary Obaebor THE Lagos State Government has given special recognition to 15 public and private primary and secondary schools in the state for their outstanding performance in adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols. Speaking on the occasion which held at Alausa, Ikeja on Tuesday, the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, OEQA, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, said […]

The police in Adamawa have arrested a man (name withheld) from Mayo -Belwa town in Mayo -Belwa Local Government Area for the alleged disappearance of his 16-year-old daughter

A suspect in a bow and arrow attack that left five people dead in southern Norway is cooperating with police, his lawyer said on Thursday. The man being held is a 37-year-old Danish resident of the Norwegian town of Kongsberg, police said. He was arrested for attacking people in central Kongsberg on Wednesday evening using […]

Mr. Valentine Ozigbo came from a humble background, growing up in a well respected christian family whom his father Mr. Andrew Ozigbo (a retired school headmaster) and Christiana Ozigbo (a small businesswoman) brought him up in a godly way.

By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt DEPRESSED victims defrauded of billions of naira in a forex trading investment scam in Rivers state have asked Eze Anthony Akarolo, Paramount Ruler of Elekahia, Port Harcourt City Local Government, to prevail on his subject, Maxwell Odum, the alleged scammer on the run to refund their money. Scheming with […]

By Sola Isola – Ibadan The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Tuesday arraigned an Owo prince, Toluwalade John Olateru Olagbogi in the Federal High Court in Ibadan over a N35.5 million fraud. EFCC is prosecuting Olateru on one count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to said sum. Olateru resides in the […]

By Dennis Agbo The Enugu State House of Assembly, on Thursday, described as ‘great’ the enormous job being executed by the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, and commended it’s Chairman, Dr Josef Onoh for his brave leadership of the agency. The House made the commendation when it invited Onoh to appeared before the general […]

By Sola Isola – Ibadan A 64-year old retired civil servant, Amos Akinlolu, has told a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court, sitting at Mapo, in Ibadan that his wife is an unrepentant adulterer, asking the court to seperate them. The man wants his nearly three-decade old marriage to his estranged wife, Funmilayo to be annulled. Akinlolu […]

By Jimitota Onoyume Warri : Arewa leader in the South, Alhaji Musa Saidu has called on northerners urging Senator Godswill Akpabio to run for the 2023 presidency to thread with caution, noting that people of the Niger Delta region were bitter with the Minister over delay in constituting the board of the Niger Delta Development […]

Prof. Haladu Bayero, Dean, Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, has recommended the overhaul of the Nigerian teacher education curriculum and the model of its implementation to align it with the technology needed in 21st century teaching and learning. Bayero made the recommendation in a lead paper entitled “Preparing in-service and pre-service teachers for […]