The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) on Friday confirmed the sack of 65 primary school teachers. SUBEB’s Auditor, Mr. Tandat Katuma, who served as the secretary of the investigation committee, said the teachers were recruited illegally in the Sanga Local Government Area of the state. The council Chairman, Mr. Charles Danladi, had on…
he Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says Nigerian irregular migrants in Saudi Arabia, will be evacuated back to the country on January 28 and 29. Mrs Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this via her Twitter handle. She appealed to Nigerians to resist travelling to other countries without proper documentation. Her tweet reads ”Nigerian…
A 45-year-old driver, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for spending a sum N2million that was erroneously transferred into his account. The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on Monday, January 18, 2021 arraigned Oluwasegun on a one-count charge bordering on stealing before Justice Sikiru…
The State High court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old student, Emmanuel Itoro Thomas, to five years in prison for involving in cultism. The court established that the convict, a student of Community Secondary School, Mbaise, in Imo State and an indigene of Uruk Uso in Obot Akara Local Government…
A fatal accident has claimed seven lives in Owerri and left about four persons severely injured. GIOTV reports that the accident happened on Thursday between Nworie River and Mbari Kitchen, Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, in the afternoon. Eyewitness account said the tragedy involved a truck carrying diesel and two mini commercial buses carrying some passengers….
Three persons have been feared killed in a fresh attack at the ongoing communal crisis between Uko-nteghe Uda and Uko Akpan Enwang communities in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The report says of the three, one of them was beheaded. This has continued to increase the number of those killed in the…
127 soldiers have reportedly resigned from the Nigerian army amid the worsening security challenges the military is currently combating in some parts of the country. In a memo obtained by Premium Times, it was gathered that the soldiers who are drawn from various formations of the army across the country are all of the junior cadres. The military…
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu has expressed that the Nigeria Police did very well in 2019/2020. The Police Chief stated that when his administration came in, there were many issues related to banditry and kidnappings, especially along the Abuja-Kaduna road. He, however, noted that his men have quashed this challenge to the…
Bolu, one of the sons of former presidential aide Doyin Okupe has come out as gay. Bolu shared a photo of himself in a rainbow-coloured shorts with a rainbow flag behind him. “Yes, I’m Gay AF,” he captioned the photo. Bolu graduated from the University of Manchester in UK back in 2015.
A federal high court in Abuja has been asked to compel the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to produce the asset declaration form belonging to Mahmood Yakubu, chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Emmanuel Agonsi, the plaintiff, wrote a letter to the CCB, seeking the INEC chairman’s asset declaration form as well as that of…