Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday. Magufuli was 61. He was Tanzania’s first president to die while in office. His death was announced after more than two-week absence from public life, that […]
https://dai.ly/x7zzdel A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa, on Wednesday, sentenced a 50-year-old electrical engineer, Preye Ojoko, to five years in jail for the serial rape of his 17-year-old sister-in-law. Ojoko, who is a father of five, was accused […]
Some Yoruba youths on Monday removed Nigerian flags and replaced them with Oduduwa Republic flags around Teslim Balogun Stadium, in Surulere, Lagos State. This was seen in a viral video shared on Instagram. Nigeria is facing many challenges, some bordering […]
No one can safely say when Nigeria’s battle against insurgency, banditry and kidnapping will end. So far, every measure that this administration has applied to curb the menace of arm bearing murdering criminals (which hitherto, many adjudged to be half-hearted), […]
By Douglas Ogbankwa, Esq. The Nigerian mainstream news media and blogosphere was awash with the comments credited to Abdulrasheed Bawa the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (hereafter called “the EFCC”), illegally giving Bankers in Nigeria till the […]
By Muhaimin Olowoporoku A Japanese court has ruled that same-sex marriage is constitutional, setting the stage for a new era of marriage equality in the country. It was the first time that a court has ruled on the constitutionality of […]
By Sunday Ehigiator Some economic experts have urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to seek measures to regulate cryptocurrency transactions in the country. Senior Economist with Nigerian Economic Summit Group, Wilson Erumebor, said this during an interview with THISDAY. […]
By Simon Utebor, Yenagoa Sagbama High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has sentenced a 21-year-old man, Timiondu Jephtah, to 10 years imprisonment over his indictment for manslaughter in the rape of a girl, aged five, to death in 2016 […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, said it expected operators in the financial system, especially bankers, to declare their assets by June 1, 2021 at the most. Its Executive Chairman, Abdulrashed Bawa, gave the deadline while addressing State […]
By Muhaimin Olowoporoku Dr. Stephen Ukenna, a lecturer in the Department of Business Management, Covenant University, Ota, has been arrested by police for raping a 17-year-old student of the school. The 41-year-old lecturer was nabbed after a report was made […]