In a bid to protect his daughter from a sexual predator, a 51-year-old man, Frederick Olorunfemi has died, he died while fighting a school bus driver who allegedly molested his seven-year-old daughter in Lagos State. Frederick had gone to the school’s administration with his wife and daughter to report the molestation and request immediate action….
The Federal Government will obey the Supreme Court’s decision to halt the Central Bank of Nigeria’s deadline for exchanging old notes on February 10.Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said this during an interview with AriseTV on Thursday, February 9.According to him, the government is hoping that the ex…
The Federal Government has ordered the closure of universities across the country ahead of the 2023 elections. The National Universities Commission (NUC) in a letter addressed to vice-chancellors and directors of inter-university centres, said all universities are to be closed for three weeks. Chris Maiyaki, NUC’s deputy executive secretary (administration), said the directive followed an…
Two former top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Victor Briggs and Abiye Membere, have been sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Justice Nnamdi Digmba handed them the sentence on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, after he found them guilty of “unethically collecting car gifts as public…
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has cancelled the registration of 817 candidates in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The cancellation came, following discovery by the nation’s tertiary institutions admission body that the candidates engaged in various forms of irregularities while carrying out the exercise in various Computer Based Centres,CBTs, across the country….
A construction engineer, Samuel Oladele, has filed a fundamental human rights suit against the Inspector-General of Police, Commissioner of Police General Investigation Section ‘D’ Department, DCP. Sheik M. Danko, (Officer in Charge) Team “C” and General Investigation Section Dy ‘department: (Force CIID) annex, Alagbon close, Ikoyi, Lagos over alleged threat to his life Others in…
Residents of Abeokuta, Akure and Benin City, on Tuesday, expressed their anger in protests that paralysed socio-economic activities in Abeokuta and on the Benin-Ore highway. They protested the prolonged naira and fuel crisis facing the nation. News providers reported that irate youths shut down many parts of Ogun State capital as banks abruptly closed their…
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has temporarily halted the move by the Federal government to ban the use of the old N200, N500 and N1000 notes as legal tenders from February 10. The Supreme court gave the order while delivering judgment in the exparte application filed before it by the Kaduna, Zamfara, and Kogi state…
