Hardship: Civil servants demand 400% wage increase
Civil servants under the umbrella of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, Trade Union Side have called on the federal government and state governments to approve and implement a 400 per cent increase in the current N70,000 national minimum wage to cushion the devastating effects of the country’s economic hardship.
One roasted to death, others injured as fire guts bus on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway
By Bose Adelaja A yet-to-be-identified passenger was Monday, roasted to death while many other passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries, when a commercial bus with number plate LSD-715XV, suddenly went up in flames on the Ogun State axis of Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. The incident occurred in the evening, on the Long Bridge, inward Arepo. However, the […]
Driver jailed 14-month for stealing tricycle windshield, stereo
An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Monday sentenced a 22-year-old driver, Auwal Ibrahim, to 14 months imprisonment for stealing a tricycle windshield and stereo set. The Judge, Mr Lawal Suleiman, sentenced Ibrahim after he pleaded guilty to the three counts of criminal trespass, mischief and theft and begged the court for […]
UI undergraduate: Family picks holes in autopsy report, petitions UCH
By Victor Ahiuma-Young The family of late Richard Gbadebo, the 300 level student of the University of Ibadan, who died in an industrial accident at a factory in Ibadan, Oyo State, has petitioned the Chief Medical Director, CMD, University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, raising concerns in the autopsy report. This came as the family also […]
Father abandons wife, baby in hospital over N220,000 bill
By Funmi Ajumobi It is two weeks today that a father, identified as Austin abandoned his wife and baby boy in a private hospital in Lagos for fear of N220, 000 bill. According to Halimat, the mother, she was delivered of a baby boy on 25th of July, 2020 through Caesarean Section and since then, […]
Fake pastor arrested for defiling two sisters in Ogun
James Ogunnaike Men of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police arrested Prophet Ebenezer Ajigbotolwa, founder and General Overseer of the Church of Lord, Olomore, Abeokuta for allegedly defiling and impregnating two underage sisters (names withheld). The suspect, according to a statement by the command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested following a report by […]
