A man and his wife have been arrested for the death of their 19 year old housemaid. Mr and Mrs Fortune Stephens, were arrested by Operatives of the Lagos State Police command for the death of Joy Okom Adole, at their home at number 18 Ogundola street, in the Bariga area of the state. The…
The people of five communities in Ondo State who were allegedly attacked by some suspected Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday appealed to the state government to rescue them from further attack by suspected armed herdsmen. The suspected herdsmen allegedly attacked the people of no fewer than five communities in the Akure North Local Government Area of…
Pastor Peter Alatake, the General Overseer of the Holy Ghost Mission Church in Owo, Ondo state, was today April 22 arraigned before an Owo Magistrate court for allegedly raping a 16-year-old epileptic secondary school student. According to reports, the victim was taken to Holy Ghost Mission Church for deliverance but allegedly ended up been raped…
The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide and Chancellor of Covenant and Landmark Universities, Rt Rev Dr David Oyedepo has initiated a weekly distribution of food items worth tens of millions of Naira in Ogun State This was disclosed in a press release made available by the church’s media and editorial board chairman,…
Rivers State Government has warned proprietors of private schools in the state demanding third term school fees from parents. State Commissioner for Education, Prof Kaniye Ebeku, who issued this warning in a voice message obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday, said the private school proprietors had no authority to begin to ask parents to pay…
Governors of the 36 States of the federation on Wednesday “unanimously” agreed to the implementation of an inter-State lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to mitigate the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 virus from State to State. The governors, operating under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), reached the agreement…
The Federal Government said it has secured the release of 60 out of the 73 Nigerians serving various jail terms in Tanzanian prisons. It said arrangements were being made by the Nigerian ambassador to Tanzania for their repatriation. The Head, Media and Public Relations Unit, Nigeria in the Diaspora Commission, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, disclosed this in…
Two police officers have been killed in Adamawa State. The officers, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Gbenga, and an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Yohanna, were said to have been killed while at RicoGado, an animal feeds factory, belonging to Nigeria’s former vice president, Atiku Abubakar. They were said to have been killed by a gunman…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities says its ongoing strike would continue despite the order of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), that February and March 2020 withheld salaries of lecturers in federal universities should be paid The Federal Government had previously withheld the lecturers’ salaries over their refusal to register in the Integrated…
The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has assured Corps members that it will pay the allowances for March and April despite the fact that the monthly clearance exercise will not be done due to the Corovarinus pandemic lockdown in many states. Director-General, Brigadier-General Shuaibu Ibrahim, gave the assurance through the Director of Public…