AAUA students block highway, protest 68-day ASUU strike
By Dayo Johnson, Akure Students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, AAUA, on Thursday blocked major roads around the institution in protest against the 68-day strike that has kept them away from academic activities. The students, led by the Students’ Union Government, SUG, shut the university’s main gate and roads linking the institution to the highway, […]
Osun warns public against consuming ‘bad ponmo’
By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo Osun state Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Adedayo Adewole has warned the public to be wary of bad cow skin popularly known as ‘ponmo’ in circulation. This is as the Commissioner also urged Ponmo Dealers’ Association in the state to join forces with the Ministry of Agriculture to prevent […]
Gunmen abduct polytechnic lecturer in Rivers
By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt Unidentified gunmen have abducted a lecturer with Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic in Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State simply identified as Mr James, at press time. However, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, in Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic following the development has condemned the development, calling on for […]
Court dissolves 24-yr-old marriage over wife’s obduracy
A Customary Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan, on Wednesday dissolved a 24-year-old marriage between a trader, Olalekan Soetan and wife Basirat over alleged stubbornness.
Woman pleads guilty, admits stealing, selling baby for N30,000 in Rivers
A woman, Joy Olakawogu has pleaded guiltily to a charge of child stealing before a Port Harcourt Magistrate Court, Rivers state, admitting that she received N30,000 reward for her first stolen child in 2018.
Who owns Monkey Village?
The above question is a rhetoric begging for legal bases as a result of the controversies that have since been doing the rounds on social media following the land tussle between a former second Vice President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Monday Ubani, and a building developer, Engr Abiodun Ariori, who the former alleged to be a land grabber.
7 arrested for stealing phone, withdrawing N330,000 from owner’s account
By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano The Police Command in Kano has arrested one Abdulsalam Isah of Gwagwarwa quarters for stealing a mobile phone worth N180,000 which he used to steal N330,000 from the phone owner’s bank account. The police arrested six other suspects in connection with the stealing of the mobile phone all of who […]
Oke Ogun youths go on rampage as truck crushes boy to death in Oyo
***As eight feared dead in auto crash Ola Ajayi – Ibadan Youths at Saki in Oke Ogun area of Oyo state went on a rampage after a young boy identified as Ayuba Raji was crushed to death by a truck loaded with scores of cattle. Subsequently, the angry youths set ablaze the truck and the […]
Rivers community explains reason for its youths face-off against Navy
By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt The People of Rumuolumeni Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State have explained that they pulled force against the Nigeria Navy Ship, NNS, Pathfinder, in their area, because the command arrested and detained some of their leaders unlawfully. Youths of Rumuolumeni, had on the earlier hours of […]
Miyetti Allah’s call for inclusion, ploy to infiltrate Amotekun — OPC
The Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, on Tuesday, warned the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, to desist from its plot to infiltrate the South-West Security Network codenamed Amotekun.
Neighbour’s son impregnated my 17-year-old daughter, man tells court
A father, Malam Hussain Abubakar, on Tuesday told a Sharia Court in Sabon Gari, Zaria that his neighbour’s son, Rabiu Ibrahim, impregnated his daughter and gave him N15,000 to abort the pregnancy.
