A dismissed policeman, Samuel Ukpabio, has been remanded following his arraignment in court by the Lagos State Police Command for his involvement in the disappearance of a newborn, Joseph, at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, in the Yaba area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the […]
The groaning occasioned by the removal of the fuel subsidy grew louder on Monday as the Nigerian Labour Congress said it was ready to fight the economic pains and hardship caused by the Federal Government’s decision. Also, university workers under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, the University of Lagos chapter […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, has inaugurated an Ad hoc Committee to investigate the alleged $9.05 billion revenue loss from gas flaring in the last decade in Nigeria. Abbas, at the inauguration of the House ad hoc committee on Gas Flaring on Monday, charged the committee to get to the […]
The Women’s World Cup being hosted by Australia and New Zealand is on track to be the best attended in the competition’s history, world football governing body FIFA has announced. Ticket sales have now exceeded 1.5 million in just five days, a new benchmark for any FIFA women’s World Cup event. At the 12 matches […]
Super Falcons coach, Randy Waldrum, rued the expulsion of teenage Nigerian midfielder Deborah Abiodun after she was sent off in added time of their opening game against Canada. The 19-year-old initially got a yellow card for her tackle on Ashley Lawrence but after VAR review, Abiodun got her marching orders as her studs hit Lawrence’s […]
Against the backdrop of the N617 petrol which began selling last week, Prince Adewole Ebenezer Adebayo, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential flag bearer in the February 2023 general elections, says Nigerians had better brace up for more such increases as fuel price is controlled mainly by market forces. In this interview, Adebayo wonders how […]
The Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani has described the proposed cash transfer policy of the Federal Government as a scam. The Tinubu administration had earlier proposed to transfer N8,000 to 12 million Nigerian households for six months to cushion the effect of the removal of petrol subsidy. The plan was later shelved after criticism from […]
A 32-year-old man, David Shodola, who was suspected to be mentally ill, on Friday, threw Ipara town, Remo-North Local Government Area of Ogun State into confusion after allegedly beheading an 84-year-old resident, Alfred Opadipe. The ‘madman’ was, however, shot dead by men of the state police command after he reportedly resisted arrest. A nine-minute-and-eight-second video […]
Dr Ifedayo Adetifa is the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. In this interview, Adetifa speaks on the case of anthrax discovered in a farm in Niger State, insisting that people should refrain from eating animal hides, also known as ponmo, bush meat and dead animals “you did not kill”. How […]
Governor Siminialayi Fubara cancellation of recent recruitment concluded by his predecessor, Chief Nyesom Wike, into Rivers state-owned Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Port Harcourt, has thrown over 1700 affected staff in disarray and stakeholders are reacting to it. Fubara’s administration in a statement by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Prince Chinedu Mmom announced the […]