A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Thursday, sentenced a 29-year-old motorcyclist, Jamiu Adegesin, to life imprisonment for raping a 21-year-old woman in the state.
Adegesin, who had pleaded not guilty to a one-count charge of...
A civil servant with the Yobe State Government, Mohammed Ali Garba, has been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for offences bordering on extortion impersonation, and forgery.
Garba was arraigned before Justice M.A. Hassan...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has signed an Executive Order establishing the State Social Investment Programme into law.
Abiodun, while signing the order in his office at Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Wednesday, said it would help to alleviate...
The Federal Government has opened the Second Niger Bridge for public use.
It was gathered that the 1.6 kilometres long bridge, which links Anambra and Delta states, was opened at about 9:50 a.m. on Thursday.
The Minister of Works and Housing,...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, December 14, met with United States President Joe Biden at the White House on the sidelines of the US-Africa Leader's Summit.
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Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, Ademola Rasaq Seriki, is dead.
The 63-year-old Lagos politician died in the early hours of Thursday December 15, 2022 in Madrid, Spain.
Seriki, a former Minister of State for Defence, is a close ally of APC presidential candidate,...
Twitter suspended an account tracking its owner, Elon Musk's private jet in real-time, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account's operator after saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a "crazy stalker".
The suspension comes just a...
Nurses in the United Kingdom, on Thursday, embarked on an unprecedented strike as a "last resort" in their fight for better wages and working conditions, despite warnings it could put patients at risk.
Up to 100,000 members of the Royal...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has appealed to the Federal Government to pay its members the four months' salaries owed to them while on strike.
The SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, made the appeal via a statement issued...
Gunmen, on Wednesday, attacked Nwakpu Market in Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, and shot a motorcyclist in the head.
The gunmen also set a vehicle ablaze and destroyed property worth millions of naira.
There have been fear and...
