A bricklayer, Azeez Shoderu, also known as Chisco, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, in Ikeja, for defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter in a toilet. The convict was sentenced on Monday by Justice Rahman Oshodi following the prosecution’s successful proof of the charge of defilement. […]

A 25-year-old Nigerian woman, Ifeoluwa Akinwunmi, risks up to 20 years jail in India after she was allegedly caught in possession of drugs worth over N1.8bn. Akinwunmi, reportedly a hairstylist and nail artist, was arrested last Tuesday by operatives of the Anti-Narcotics Wing of the Central Crime Branch in Bengaluru. She was apprehended at the […]

Operatives of the Niger State Police Command have arrested two kidnap suspects, Japhta James, 28 years and Usman Ibrahim 30 years old. The suspects who reside in Ijah-Gwari, Tafa and Sabon-Gari, Bwari area of FCT, respectively, broke into their victim’s home with weapons. They were said to have entered the premises of their victim in […]

Aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, yesterday, grounded the party’s national headquarters in Abuja to register their grievance over the perceived oppression melted against founding members by the new defectors into the party. The protesters bearing placards with various inscriptions like: “We don’t want Aduda, we don’t want […]

Mustapha Salihu, the National Vice Chairman (Northeast) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has explained why he chose to endorse President Bola Tinubu and not Vice President Kashim Shettima. While speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Monday, Salihu clarified that Shettima was omitted from his endorsement during Sunday’s APC North-East summit […]

Residents of Kebbi State are expected to experience stable electricity again as the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has announced that full power supply will be restored on or before Thursday, June 19, 2025.The state has endured nearly two months of blackout following the collapse of critical transmission towers along the Kainji–Birnin Kebbi 330kV line. […]

Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie said Nigerians do not hate President Bola Tinubu but only want him to address hardship and insecurity in the country. Edochie, a staunch Tinubu supporter, stated this in a Facebook post on Monday. The Tinubu presidency has come under intense pressure in the last few days to address attacks in Benue. […]

In a move aimed at enhancing taxpayer convenience during the peak filing period, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji, has directed all tax offices across the country to open on weekends in June. According to a statement issued by Dare Adekanmbi, Special Adviser on Media to the FIRS Chairman, the […]

A civil society organization, Initiative for Freedom, Conflict Preservation and Social Integration, has filed another case at the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, this time challenging the legality of the National Assembly’s ratification of the appointment of the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas. The group is questioning the authority […]