GIOTV reports that the coroner inquest which was set up to ascertain the cause of death of a 12-year-old Chrisland School pupil, Whitney Adeniran, who died on February 9, has set a date for hearing. Magistrate Olabisi Fajana fixed the date after entertaining submissions of all counsels who appeared before the court sitting in Ikeja…
A national prayer has been declared against homos3xuality in Kenya. Kenya’s first lady, Rachel Ruto made the declaration saying the practice is a threat to the institution of the family. “We want to strengthen the family institution where we have a father, a mother and children. LGBTQ is forbidden even in the Bible and the…
Some deposit money banks have started paying out the old notes, following the Supreme Court judgment, which extended the validity of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) currency redesign policy to December. Some checks by Daily Trust showed that some commercial banks in the City of Kano and Abuja have commenced paying out the old…
We are deeply saddened and sorry about Whitney’s death. We are remorseful and sorry to Whitney’s parents. We are sorry to our parents and the entire community that hosts our school. We are also very sorry to the nation at large. It was a huge loss to the school. We express an equal measure of…
Some Nigerian senior lawyers have senbt a meeagw to the Federal Government. The lawyers yesterday urged the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to comply with the Supreme Court judgment of last Friday. They warned that not obeying the order would amount to contempt of court and further cast the government and…
Prof. Adekunle Oloyede, a former Vice Chancellor of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, has bagged a 5-year jail term by an Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, for $1.2 million fraud. Justice Aderemi Adegoroye jailed the professor after finding him guilty on all six counts of false pretences, stealing and fraud contrary to the…
A pastor with the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), Reverend Musa Hyok and his two sons, Emmanuel Musa and Mang Musa have been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in a midnight attack in Ganawuri community, Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to the Nigerian Tribune, the gunmen, numbering about twenty, invaded the…
Bandits have killed SP Kazeem Raheem, a Divisional Police Officer in Maru town, headquarters of Maru local government area of Zamfara state. Raheem was killed alongside a vigilante identified as Shehu Chuka and a police sergeant, Rabiu Bagobiri, said to be an orderly to a former chairman of Maru LGA. A resident, who craved…
Heavily armed men, in their numbers, stormed Maigari village in Rimin Gado Local Government of Kano State on Sunday and shot dead the village head, Alhaji Dahiru Abba. The gunmen, according to an eyewitness, rode on motorcycles. A family source confirmed that the gunmen did not take anything from the victim’s house. The village head…
A domestic help, Onyebuchi Ezeh has been arrested for allegedly harvesting the genitals of a 72-year-old woman, including other parts of her body for ritual purposes. Ezeh had confessed that he and some of his friends did it on the instruction of a native doctor, who had promised to make them billionaires if they brought…