Month: October 2023

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN, has expressed sadness over the death on October 29, 2023, of two distinguished icons of the Bar, Prof. Benjamin Obi Nwabueze, OON, SAN and Chief George Nwokocha-Ona […]

The Ogun State Government-owned So-Safe Corps, on Monday, admitted killing a pastor, Adeniyi Adisa, in a shoot-out with suspected kidnappers on July 1, 2023. Some gunmen had reportedly stormed a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) at Abule-Ori in Obafemi […]

Israel’s plan to destroy the Palestinian movement Hamas is 10% complete, Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Israeli official. “Perhaps we’ve covered about 10% of the distance required to achieve the goal of toppling Hamas,” the […]

A 14-year-old girl, Joy Afekafe, on Tuesday, narrated how she and her two friends, Walex and Smart, stabbed Dr. Funmilola Adefolalu, a lecturer with the Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, Minna to death in her apartment in Minna, […]

Mr Said Alkali, the Minister of Transportation, said the Nigerian Railways will commence e-ticketing on Wednesday. Alkali made this known on Monday in Abuja during the flag-off of e-ticketing for Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe–Warri routes. According to him, the e-ticketing system […]

The House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to invite the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu to explain how she planned to distribute N1.1 trillion budgeted as conditional cash transfer, CCT, to 15 million households to […]

Dr Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, has alerted Nigerians on the existence of portal designed by undesirable elements to defraud Nigerians. Edu said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the “FG Humanitarian and Poverty […]

At least 12 people died and three others were critically ill after drinking home-made liquor laced with lanarkite, a lead sulfate mineral, and copper phosphide being used as rodent poison in Indonesia’s West Java province over the weekend, police said […]

The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Tuesday, affirmed the judgment of Kogi National and State Assemblies Tribunal declaring Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan the validly elected candidate for the state February 25 Central Senatorial election. The three-member panel dismissed the appeal filed by […]

Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, has roasted Atiku Abubakar after the 2023 presidential candidate of the PDP accused Nigeria’s Supreme Court of supporting illegality by declaring President Bola Tinubu as the true […]