A Magistrate court in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has remanded a police sergeant who shot and killed a policewoman last week. Sergeant Bitrus Osaiah, attached to a task force on illegal trading and road decongestion, was said to have shot Sergeant Lovenda Elekwachi who was on traffic control duty. Elekwachi was shot in…
British Airways is to make up to 12,000 staff redundant in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The airline has cut 94 percent of its flights and its parent company, IAG, lost almost half a billion pounds in the first three months of 2019, with much heavier losses expected. As a result, British Airways has begun…
The strange deaths in Kano continued yesterday, with the passing of four prominent citizens of the state. They include a cleric, Sheik Tijjani Yola, who was also the head of Murtala Mohammed Central Mosque in the state; father of Vice-Chancellor of National Open University, NOUN, Uba Adamu; former speaker of Jigawa State House of Assembly,…
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina while speaking on This Morning programme on TVC News, disclosed that the person who leaked President Muhammadu Buhari’s draft speech hours before he delivered his address to the nation on Monday night, has been traced. According to Adesina, the version released was full of…
Some unknown gunmen on Tuesday attacked and killed a popular truck driver, Ojo Emmanuel, at Omi-Alafa area of Ifon in the Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. Another driver, Mr. Jelili Ajanaku, was also abducted by the gunmen at the same point early on Tuesday. It was gathered that the same gang of bandits…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed 38 persons to the board of the Federal Character Commission (FCC). In a letter on Tuesday, the president asked the senate to confirm the appointees. He based his request on section 154 (1) of the constitution as amended. Senate President Ahmad Lawan read the letter on the floor of the upper…
A Nigerian woman and her two children, both under 10, were burnt to death in a fire outbreak that occurred inside her one-room apartment in Alikor estate in Choba, Rivers state today April 28th. According to reports. the fire is suspected to have been caused by the kerosene the woman sells. Her body and those of…
The Federal Government has declared Friday, May 1, 2020, as a public holiday to mark this year’s International Workers’ Day Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement by signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Georgina Ehuriah. In the statement, Aregbesola…
Comedian Mr. Jollof has claimed that Nigerian Governors have turned the ongoing pandemic into a fashion parade. Many states across the country have been taking steps to curb the spread of the coronavirus in their region, and one of them is an order mandating citizens to use face masks in public. This has led Governors…
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A grandmother turned an abandoned Boeing 727 passenger jetliner into her three-bedroom dream home and named it after US president Donald Trump. Ann Ussery’s air traffic controller brother-in-law Bob Farrow pushed her to snap up the retired plane after her mobile home was destroyed in an ice storm. Her lakeside plot in Benoit, Mississippi, was…