At least five persons have been reportedly shot dead in a renewed clash between the people of Emede and Igbide clans in Isoko South council area of Delta state. Though the cause of the renewed hostilities remains uncertain, community sources revealed that the cultivation of a disputed land known as Oruzu, by both parties, triggered…
A 49-year-old pastor identified as George Amaechi Okeaghalam has reportedly been arrested by men of the Imo State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 5-year-old girl in Umuguma village, Owerri. According to a report posted by an NGO (Sweet Mothers Foundation) on Wednesday, December 9, the pastor, said to be a neighbor and acquaintance of the victim’s…
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has raised an alarm over the state of the country. Speaking at the launch of his new book ‘Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth’, Soyinka stated that it is hard sometimes to believe that anyone is in charge of the country. He added that this is a parlous condition for…
Federal Government has disclosed that over 700 road projects are currently ongoing across all geopolitical zones in the country. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Ernest Umakhihe disclosed this on Wednesday December 9, while speaking at the ongoing 26th National Council on Works in Port Harcourt. Umakhihe who revealed that the road projects…
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad is scheduled to inaugurate 72 legal practitioners recently elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. Justice Muhammad will administer the oath on the 72 SANs at the main courtroom of the Supreme Court on Monday, December 14, 2020. The inauguration is part…
Gunmen shot dead a female news anchor and her driver on Thursday, her employer said, the second murder of a journalist in Afghanistan in a month. Malalai Maiwand was killed in the eastern city of Jalalabad, said Enekaas TV, the private television channel she worked for. Targeted killings of prominent figures, including journalists, clerics, politicians,…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the leader of the Monday’s EndSARS protest, Emmanuel Adebayo popularly known as Captain in Osun. According to reliable sources, Adebayo was detained over an allegation against him. It was gathered that Adebayo was arrested on the basis that he was allegedly impersonating the Nigerian Army and receiving…
The Federal government said on Thursday that the price of data has been reduced by more than 50 percent following a directive that the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, should put in place measures to that effect. Accordingly, the price of data of 1GB has been reduced from 1000 naira to 487 nairas beginning from last…
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has denied that it reached an agreement with the federal government to suspend its ongoing strike on December 9, 2020. The Union insisted that contrary to insinuation to that effect, there was never an understanding with the government that it would suspend the over 9 months old action…
A woman has been electrocuted in Russia after suffering a massive electric shock when her charging phone fell in her bath. Olesya Semenova, 24, was found by her flatmate at their home in Russian city Arkhangelsk. ‘I screamed, shook her, but she was pale, did not breathe and showed no signs of life,’ distraught friend…