The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Tuesday, winged a female combat pilot officer, and five others. Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Sadique Abubakar, winged them at the combined ceremony of Basic Flying Course 19 Batch A and Tactical Fighter Course 24 Batch B, at NAF Headquarters, Abuja. He assured that NAF would continue to ensure…
Nigerian government on Saturday appealed to labour union to suspend its planned nationwide strike over the increase in petrol price and electricity tariff. Recall the government and the organised labour, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), failed to reach an agreement on Thursday over the increase in petrol price and electricity tariffs…
Lagos State Government is set to deal decisively with members of unlawful societies and cultism with a new bill being considered by the State House of Assembly. The bill entitled; “A Bill For A Law To Provide For The Prohibition of Unlawful Societies And Cultism In Lagos State And For Other Connected Purposes,” went through…
A woman identified as Salamatou has allegedly killed her two kids and cooked their bodies in Cameroon. It was reported that the incident happened on the morning of Monday, September 14th, 2020, at Badjengo commune of Pitoa Department of Bénoué. It was learnt that the children had gone missing for several hours, which made the…
An unidentified lady slumped on Monday, September 21 in Calabar while protesting against her sack by the Cross River State Government. Governor Ben Ayade had mid-2019, directed the delisting of about 2,500 names from the payroll of the Cross River State government, claiming that most of those employed between 2014 till then did not follow due…
The Niger State Police Command has arrested one Mohammed Idris Abubakar for allegedly defrauding POS operators in Minna and other parts of the state to the tune of N1.2 million. Checks revealed that the fraudster, within a year of his operation in various parts of the town and its environs scammed more than 20 operators…
Students are returning to school across the nation for the first time since March. That’s when a lockdown was imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic when it entered Nigeria. Businesses, markets, worship centres have all reopened long before schools. As students go to school in some states for the first time in…
A 35 years old woman, Ms Blessing Emmanuel, on Saturday, fell into labour and was delivered of a baby boy under the flyover bridge in Ajah area of Lagos State. The incident occurred at about 4.30p.m. The woman, who hails from Cross River State, was said to be homeless, but personnel from Lagos State Ambulance…
Federal Government has frowned on the statements issued by the United States and the United Kingdom on the governorship elections holding in Edo State on Saturday (today) and Ondo State on October 10. It also expressed concern over the visa restrictions imposed by the US on unnamed politicians for alleged involvement in electoral violence during…
A 57-year-old man identified as Emeka Ezimadu has killed his 85-year-old mother, Mrs Agnes Ezimadu, and two of his biological children, Ifechukwu and Nmeso, aged nine and two years respectively. Ezimadu also injured three of his other children; Nonso Ezimadu ‘m’ aged 12 years, Chinaemerem Ezimadu ‘f’ aged 11 years and Ngozi Ezimadu ‘f’ aged…