Just in: Court jails ex-minister, Sarah Ochekpe, three others for 3 months over N450m fraud
The judge however, in his discretion sentenced them to three months imprisonment each or an option N1 million naira each.
Bauchi govt moves to empower, rehabilitate 575 sex workers
Bauchi State government, through the Hisbah Department of the Bauchi State Shariah Commission, has rolled out a skill empowerment training to rehabilitate 575 commercial sex workers operating in the state in a bid to discourage them from prostitution and make them self-reliant
Africa Magic appoints Victor Okhai as Head Judge for Eighth AMVCAs
The Africa Magic, the continent’s leading provider of local entertainment content, has announced the appointment of Nigerian filmmaker, Victor Okhai, as Head Judge of the eighth Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards, AMVCAs, billed to hold later this year in Lagos, Nigeria. Victor Okhai is a seasoned producer, scriptwriter, cinematographer, director and film consultant. He is […]
Suspected drug peddler, one other killed in Bayelsa renewed cult war
By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio, YENOGOA Two persons including a suspected drug peddler were, yesterday, killed and many others injured in renewed cult war in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital between members of the Bobos and Iceland cult groups. It was learned that the killings, which started in the early hours of the day […]
ICT contributes 15.21% to GDP in Q4’21 — NBS
Information and Communications Technology, ICT sector contributed 15.21 per cent to the total real GDP, as the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS rounded its quarterly GDP report for Q4, 2021
Gunmen attack Okomu Oil again as police arrest 2 suspects
Two suspects have been arrested by police operatives over attacks on Okomu Oil Palm Company, Edo State. It was gathered that the recent attack on the company’s plantation followed similar attack February 1, 2022, which resulted to 90 hectares of the company’s rubber plantation and three excavators burnt by the assailants. The workers were not […]
Corpses, body parts, arms found in Bayelsa refuse bins weekly— Ayebakari, Waste mgt contractor
“So we see the good, the bad and the ugly. Sometimes we pick native doctors’ concoction too”
ASUU strike, Ngige, and NANS outburst
As a labour activist, I read with utmost dismay the press statement issued by the President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Sunday Asefon, in which he blamed the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige for the current four-week warning strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU
HOMEF to National Assembly: Right to food must be enshrined in the Constitution
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called on the National Assembly’s Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution to reinstate the clause on the ‘right to food’. The clause was reportedly deleted in the Constitution’s amendment Bill pending before the two chambers of the National Assembly. HOMEF made the call in a […]
Concerned Nigerians condemn PDP’s silence on Buhari’s ‘misrule’, urges party to wake up
A civil rights group, Concerned Nigerians has tasked the People Democratic Party (PDP) to wake up and play the crucial opposition role of questioning and holding the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government accountable on the several anti-people policies emanating from the government of the day. The group which made the call in an open letter, titled […]
We’re expecting Twitter to open Nigerian office in Q1 2022 — Minister
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said on Monday, that the microblogging site, Twitter, is expected to open its Nigerian office before the end of March 2022
