Bayelsa urges calm after NDU student’s murder
The Bayelsa State Government on Tuesday called for calm following the murder of a final-year student of the state-owned Niger Delta University, Francis Paleowei in Amassoma, the institution’s host community. Paleowei, a 400-level student of Sociology, from the Obrigbene community…
Groom, 11 others remanded over cop’s murder in Rivers
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded 12 suspects to the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre in connection with the alleged murder of a female Police Inspector, Christiana Erekere. The suspects, including a groom identified as Efeoghene…
Court orders Nigerian Army to pay N800 million for killing BIRS staff in Benue
A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi, Thursday, awarded the sum of N800 million against the Nigerian Army and 10 others over the brutal murder of Sixtus Akure. The judgement came three years after the deceased, Mr. Akure, a…
Alleged witchcraft: Pastor, two others remanded for dehumanizing 90-year-old woman, others
The Edo State Police Command says it has arrested a pastor and one other for alleged dehumanization and brutalization of a 90-year-old, Adishetu Atairu, the Chief Imam of Ofukpo-Ekperi community in Etsako Central Local Government of Edo state and six…
UNILORIN student dies, others injured in campus crash
Tragedy hit the University of Ilorin as some yet-to-be-identified students and a shuttle driver got involved in a fatal auto crash at the school’s main gate, which led to the death of a student. It was gathered on Thursday that…
I’m an unofficial APC member, says Shaibu
The reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philips Shaibu, on Friday, said he was already an unofficial member of the All Progressives Congress. He said the only thing still keeping him in the Peoples Democratic Party was because he was…
Reps plead against anti-govt protest, accept 50% salary cut
Members of the House of Representatives, on Thursday, agreed to donate 50 per cent of their salaries for a period of six months to assist the Federal Government in addressing the economic situation in the country. The resolution of the…
ICYMI: Dangote Refinery Products Inferior To Imported Ones; Nigeria Can’t Rely On Them Alone To Avoid Monopoly – Nigerian Agency, NMDPRA
Farouk Ahmed, the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has cautioned Nigerians against over-dependence on products from the Dangote refinery. Ahmed highlighted concerns over the consistency and standardisation of the refinery’s output, stating that…
Just In: Planes grounded as global IT outage hits airlines, media, banks
Airlines’ operations in countries like Singapore, the United States and Australia have been disrupted due to a major global cyber outage affecting services. The massive information technology (IT) outage, which began in the early hours of today, also affected banks…
Police nab 13-year-old boy acting as informant for bandits
The police in Katsina have arrested a 13-year-old boy suspected to be providing information to armed bandits. Police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu disclosed this in Katsina. “On July 3, the command, in collaboration with members of the Katsina State Community Watch…