The Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, on Tuesday in Abuja, arraigned three medical doctors for their alleged roles in the death of three-month-old Peace Oluwole. The accused medical practitioners, Dr. Iyoha Joseph, Dr. Obafemi Kuye and Dr. Mukaila Oyewunmi Oladipo, were accused of conducting themselves unprofessionally by administering unnecessary drugs, delaying necessary actions and…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offenses Commission (ICPC) has arrested and arraigned a former staff of the Ondo state command of the Nigerian Correctional Service (formerly Nigerian Prison Service), Mrs. Opadule Caroline Abimbola on a seven-count charge bordering on dishonesty and corruption. Abimbola was accused of concealing the receipt of salary overpayments at various times in…
A plane operated by Syria’s national carrier on Wednesday landed in Aleppo’s airport, marking the reopening of the facility after an eight-year closure, the state Syrian news agency SANA reported. Syrian government forces, supported by allied Russian forces, announced their capture of the countryside around Aleppo from rebels earlier this week, in the north of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has reorganized the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), replacing Barr Joy Nunieh with Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, as Acting Managing Director. The President also increased the number of the committee from three to five persons, including Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, Ag. Executive Director (Projects); Mr. Ibanga Bassey Etang,…
The Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Monday Bubou-Obolo, has stepped aside to pave the way for the emergence of a new Speaker. The development followed the inauguration of Governor Douye Diri, who is from the same Bayelsa Central Senatorial District as Bubou-Obolo. Members, therefore, elected the Deputy Speaker, Abraham Ngobere, as the…
The World Bank on Tuesday approved six projects worth about $2.2bn for implementation in Nigeria in the 2020 fiscal year. The management of the bank had met to deliberate on a request from the Federal Government. A statement issued by the World Bank early on Wednesday said the projects would support human capital and economic…
A 400L Public Administration student of Benue State University, Timothy Kwaghnzua Aondongu was killed by suspected cultists a month to his graduation. The final year student was shot dead at Gyado Villa, Makurdi, in the early hours of Thursday, February 6, at Gyado Villa, Makurdi, the same place the two other students were killed on…
The police in Mecklenburg outside Burgersfort have launched a manhunt for a 52-year-old suspect Senyatse Lucas Phasha, who allegedly killed his four children at ga-Pasha village, Polokwane. The bodies of the children were found at two different locations in the area. The suspect allegedly informed a neighbor on Tuesday morning, 18 February 2020, about the…
Inyang Ekwo, judge of a federal high court in Abuja, has fixed March 25 to hear a fundamental human rights suit Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, filed against the Department of State Services (DSS). In the suit marked FHC/ABJ /CS/1409/2019, Sowore challenged Yusuf Bichi, director-general of DSS, over his detention in 2019. He also…
An Indian Sprinter, Srinivasa Gowda, has made history by breaking Jamaica’s Usain Bolt 100 metres record of 9.58 secs set in 2009. The athlete, a construction worker allegedly beaten Usain Bolt’s 100-metre sprint record – within 9.55seconds with the help of two huge buffaloes The Indian Sprinter from Karnataka, has since been called up for…