Justice Nathan Musa of the Gombe State High Court sitting in Gombe has convicted and sentenced a former cashier of Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC), Ibrahim Aliyu, to seven years imprisonment for criminal breach of trust and forgery.
He was jailed...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Semiu Adeyemi Adeniran as the substantive Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The appointment is with immediate effect, according to a statement...
A Lagos High Court in Igbosere, on Friday, sentenced a Dane, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his wife, Zainab, and daughter, Petra.
Nielsen, 54, was convicted by Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile on 2-count charge of murder brought against...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has adjusted the dates for the primaries ahead of the 2023 general election.
The main opposition party made this known via a statement issued by the PDP Publicity Secretary...
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine:
Russia homes in on Lugansk
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow is nearing full control of the separatist region of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine.
"The liberation of the Lugansk People's Republic...
France, Belgium, and Germany on Friday reported their first cases of monkeypox, joining several other European and North American nations in detecting the disease, endemic in parts of Africa.
Monkeypox was identified in a 29-year-old man in the Ile-de-France region,...
A non-governmental organization, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has called on the victims of gender-based violence and their relatives to speak up about their challenges to enable perpetrators face the consequences of their actions.
CITAD's Gender Officer, Zainab...
From generating about N12 billion in 2015 when the Malam Nasir El-Rufai administration assumed office, Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) had raked in over N50 billion as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020. Last year, it also surpassed...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has lifted the curfew imposed on the state due to the recent killing of a student of the State College of Education, Deborah Samuel, over alleged blasphemy.
The latest development was disclosed via a statement issued...
Some aggrieved members of the Ogun State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have raised the alarm over alleged plot to jettison, circumvent and violate the consent judgement which resolved the protracted factionalisation of the party in the state.
The...
