Two children have been killed in an attack on herdmen in their camp at Ukwuachi forest in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Loveth Odah confirmed this in a release made available to journalists in Abakaliki. She gave the names of the deceased as Adamu Ibrahim, 7,…
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Oct. 1 Protest: MSSN, NACOMYO dissociate from Oodua Republic agitation
Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) and the National Council of Muslim Youth Organisations (NACOMYO) Tuesday disclosed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, that Muslims in the South West region were not part of the recent call for the creation of Oduduwa Republic in Nigeria as being championed by Professor Banji Akintoye. According to MSSN…
OUK Movement committed to grassroots mobilization
*Intensifies membership drive The OUK Movement, a non-partisan socio-political ideological group, says it is committed to mobilising the grassroots for political awareness and participation. Chairman of the group, Engr. Agu Ndukwe said after the group’s meeting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, that the OUK Movement was poised to raise the bar in the orientation…
ITF was in shambles when I took over in 2016 – Sir Joseph Ari
*Says: ‘We’ve transformed and trained 500,000 Nigerian youths’ The Director-General Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Sir Joseph Ari has disclosed that the Fund under his administration has in four years achieved and performed remarkably in the objectives and mandate given it in which 500,000 Nigerian have been trained in various entrepreneurial skills. Speaking to journalists in…
Ex-First Bank staff jailed 98 years in Ibadan over N49m, $368,000 fraud
An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has sentenced a former female staff of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, to a cumulative 98 years in prison for fraud. The convict was arraigned before Justice Muniru Olagunju and diligently prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC)…
SEEFOR constructs 157 roads in Bayelsa
The State Employment and Expenditure For Result Projects (SEEFOR) on Tuesday revealed that it has started and completed 157 roads across the eight local government area of Bayelsa state as they wind up the programme in the state. Speaking to journalists after taking a tour of some of the projects in Yenagoa, part of Southern…
Alleged homicide: El-Zakzaky pleads not guilty in Kaduna
Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), on Tuesday, pleaded not guilty to the eight counts bordering on alleged culpable homicide filed against him in a Kaduna High Court. Justice Gideon Kurada took the plea of the IMN leader at the resumed hearing of the motion in a no-case-submission filed by…
Court remands businessman for alleged armed robbery
A Magistrates’ Court in Makurdi on Tuesday, ordered that a businessman, Oche Mathew, be remanded in a correctional centre, for alleged armed robbery. The police charged Mathew with two counts of criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. Magistrate Ajuma Igama did not take the plea of Mathew for want of jurisdiction. Igama ordered the police to…
COVID-19: Kwara sets aside N135m for private schools
Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Government has disclosed that it has set aside the sum of N135,500,000 under the Kwara State Social Investment Programme (KWASSIP) as interest-free loan to 1,119 private school owners across the state. This was revealed in a statement by the Anchor of KWASSIP, Mohammed Brimah, on Tuesday in…
Malaysia returnee shot dead inside barbing saloon in Aba
Emmanuel Ifeanyi, Aba A 36-year-old man, Mr. Samuel Kalu aka ‘Akilu’ (Bitter Kola) has been shot dead by unknown gunmen while having a haircut at a barbing saloon located at Umuibe Street, off Item Road, Ndiegoro Aba, Abia State. New Telegraph reports that the incident, which took place on Sunday morning, threw residents of the…
Ondo guber: We’ll replicate gains from Edo –IG
As the electorate in Ondo State prepare to elect a new governor on Saturday, October 10, the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has assured of the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to replicate and advance the gains recorded by the Force and other security agencies during the Edo gubernatorial election. …
Sex-toy shop assault: Senator asked to pay woman N50m damages
An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama yesterday awarded N50 million d a m a g e s against the senator representing Adamawa North, Elisha Abbo, to be paid as compensation to a female attendant at a sex-toy shop, Osimibibra Warmate, who he assaulted. The trial judge, Justice Samira Bature, gave the order in…