Abia top UTME scorer to get N.5m scholarship in memory of late Ukpabi
Highest scorer in Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam, UMTE, from Abia State, is to receive N500,000 scholarship, courtesy of the late Uche J. Ukpabi Legacy Foundation.
We want to see remains of Don Waney, frightened Omoku women tell Army
TWENTY-FOUR hours after military operatives displayed the remains of notorious killer, Johnson Igwedibia, a.k.a. Don Waney, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, confirming his death in Enugu State, women of Omoku, yesterday, called on the Army to bring the body to the community before they will believe the news.
In Calabar: Woman, 3 children die in kerosene fire
FIRE from adulterated kerosene’s explosion has killed a family of four at 124, Murtala Mohammed Highway, Ikot Omin, 8 Miles, at the outskirts of Calabar, Cross River State.
545 migrants returns from Libya today
NO fewer than 545 more Nigerian migrants will be repatriated from Libya today, barely 24 hours after 485 returnees arrived on Sunday.
Police confirm 3 dead, 6 injured in fresh Taraba attack
The Police in Taraba State, yesterday, confirmed the death of three persons, while six others sustained injuries in another overnight attack on Maisamari, in Sardauna Local Government Area of the state by a suspected militia group.
4 brothers kill grandmother for money ritual in Edo; 2 nabbed
Two of the four brothers and a native doctor, who allegedly killed their grandmother for money ritual in Ohovbe quarters, Ikpoba Hill, Benin, have been arrested by operatives of the Edo State Police Command.
FG evacuates 1,030 stranded Nigerians from Libya in 2 days – Maihaja
The Federal Government on Monday said it evacuated 1,030 stranded Nigerian migrants from Libya between Jan. 7 and Jan 8, 2018.
In Libya 20 Nigerians sold for $730
Nigerian returnees from Libya have continued to recount the harrowing ordeal they experienced while in the country, including a day when 20 of them were sold for just $730.
Ethiopians, Russians set for their Christmas tomorrow
Christians in Nigeria may have forgotten Christmas festivities held on 25 December 2017, but in countries such as Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Russia, the gongs and cymbals of celebration are just being beaten. Adherents of the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church will be marking their Christmas tomorrow, simultaneously as it is observed by Orthodox Christians in Russia, […]
Trump marijuana policy reversal stokes fears in pot firms, users
The Trump administration’s decision to enforce federal anti-marijuana laws has sent shivers through users, medical patients and businesses encouraged by the growing number of states legalizing the drug.
Traffickers drug 17-yr-old girl, sell her 3-month-old boy for N910,000
ABAKALIKI—A 17-year-old teenage girl was allegedly drugged by traffickers, labbelled mentally ill and her three-month-old boy sold for N910,000.
