A businessman, Monday Francis, on Thursday, begged a Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja, not to grant his wife, Mercy divorce, saying he still loves her and cannot let her go. Francis made the plea while defending himself in a divorce petition filed against him by Mercy. “I still love my wife very much. I don’t […]

A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) has discharged and acquitted a housewife, Mary Alilu, who was accused of murdering her husband, Kingsley Perewe, by cutting his neck and head.

The Enugu State House of Assembly has passed for second reading a bill for the establishment, Functions and administration of the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS) at Igbo-Eno, Udenu local government area of the state.

A married woman, Mrs Patience Ibrahim, on Thursday dragged her husband, Mr Talpha Atega, before a Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja, for allegedly calling her a ‘snake’. In her complaint, Patience told the court that Atega often referred to her as  “a snake from the marine kingdom”, aside from failing in the discharge of his responsibilities […]

A 42-year-old man from Okpala, Iho in Ikeduru’s local government area of Imo State, one Obinna Eze, was captured by angry youths for allegedly conniving with his sister, one Queen Ogechi, to steal a three-month-old baby from a woman he claimed to be his wife, Ijeoma.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, was unconcerned about the suffering and agony of Nigerians. The opposition party was reacting to a recent statement credited to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. Adesina had in the statement, Tuesday, said the PDP was seeking […]

By Amaech Ikechukwu LISTENING to political gladiators, particularly from the North, talk these days, you will not be wrong to assume that the zoning principle introduced by the founding fathers of the Fourth Republic as a way of stabilising the polity that had been badly fractured prior to 1999 was a mistake, after all.  Those who […]

The Minister of Agriculture, Dr Mohammed. Mahmood Abubakar has said that the Anchor Borrowers program of the Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN) has been able to close the gap between supply of maize grains and its a demand by domestic and industrial users.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Nigerian Police Force, NPF, on Thursday, urged the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, sitting in Abuja, to award N20million compensation to the family of one of the officers it said was murdered in Anambra State. Police, through its lawyer, Mr Fidelis Ogwobe, […]

By Innocent Anaba A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Thursday, adjourned till May 12 for hearing in the suit by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, challenging the alleged unilateral amendment of the Rules of Professional Conduct, RPC, by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami(SAN). The matter is before Justice Donatus Okorowo. NBA President, […]

Mr Enyinnaya Nwafor, the son of the late Deputy Governor of Abia State, Dr Chima Nwafor, has said that the reason he joined the governorship race was to “re-engineer Abia and make it work”.

The Defence Headquarters says the troops of Operation Delta Safe, have discovered and destroyed 49 illegal refineries in the past two weeks in the Niger Delta. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, said this while giving an update on military operations from March 10 to March 24, on Thursday in Abuja. Onyeuko said […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi The driver of ill-fated Benue Links commercial vehicle whose passengers were robbed and kidnapped by armed men in Kogi state while on their way to Lagos, Mr Emmanuel Owoicho, has disclosed that six passengers including a pregnant woman were among the abducted passengers. The driver who Thursday narrated his encounter with […]

By Ugochukwu Alaribe There was confusion at the headquarters of the Traffic and Indiscipline Management Agency of Abia State, TIMASS, in Aba, Thursday, as over 200 Keke operators stormed the agency protesting what they described as extortion, high handedness and arbitrary confiscation of their tricycles by TIMAAS officials. The Keke operators lamented that they have […]

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