A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Monday, June 19, ordered that a 40-year-old farmer, Zakaria Bulus, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a deaf-mute 10-year-old girl. Bulus was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Kaduna with defilement. The presiding judge, Mr Samson Kwasu,…
South African billionaire, Johann Rupert has been named as the richest man in Africa, displacing Aliko Dangote who held the position for 10 years. Forbes Magazine made the announcement on Friday, June 16. Forbes real-time Global Billionaires Ranking pegged Rupert’s net worth at $12 billion and Dangote’s at $10.8 billion. It was gathered that Dangote’s…
Electricity tariff in the country is set to increase by over 40 per cent in the coming days. This development which is likely to cause hardship may eventually end all forms of energy subsidy in the country. Guardian reports that with a monthly subsidy of about N50 billion still in the electricity sector owing to…
The Chief Imam of the Uso Community in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, Alhaji Ibrahim Oyinlade, who was abducted on Saturday, has regained his freedom. It was gathered that the cleric was released by his abductors on Sunday evening, June 18, 2023. The Imam was kidnapped on his farm located at Asolo camp, along the…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has further expressed concerns over the planned student loan, saying beneficiaries of such initiatives in other countries were committing suicide as a result of debts. The union, therefore, asked President Bola Tinubu to change the newly assented Students Loans Act to grants for poor students. ASUU National President,…
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB has lashed out at former militant leader, Asari Dokubo describing him as a criminal and an economic saboteur. MASSOB reacted after Dokubo’s call that President Bola Tinubu should not release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. After a meeting…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has removed the restriction of cash deposits into domiciliary accounts. The statement by the apex bank came after a meeting with the bankers’ committee on Sunday, June 18 as regards guidance to Deposit Money Banks (DMBs). The guidance includes allowing all visible and invisible transactions to be eligible for…
Ex-governor of Rivers state, Barr Nyesom Wike has revealed that he was poisoned at his party’s secretariat in 2018. While speaking at his family thanksgiving service which held at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Rumuepirikom Deanery, of the Diocese of Niger Delta North on Sunday, June 18, Wike recalled that in 2018, he suffered liver and…
A traditional title holder, the Ardo of Birni and Kewaye of Zazzau Emirate, Alhaji Shuabu Mohammed and his four sons have been killed by suspected bandits. The incident occurred on Saturday night at about 10pm on Saturday, June 17, 2023, in Dorayi village, Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was gathered that the…
Three persons said to be Christian clerics, have died when a sleeping driver lost control and rammed into a truck on the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway. A spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said the crash occurred around 9:44 am on Saturday, June 17, 2023, near Day Waterman College, a private…