The lecturer in the Kaduna State University, KASU, Dr John Danfulani, who was arrested by police in Kaduna over his Facebook post, has been denied bail. Magistrate Awwal Musa, during the ruling, said the police was empowered to protect, investigate and carry out the duty assigned to them, hence the court cannot deny them their…
A raging inferno enveloped a filling station in the Lawanson area of Lagos State on Thursday evening. It was gathered that the fire, which gutted an MRS petrol station in the area in Surulere, destroyed many properties worth millions of Naira. The inferno was said to have started around 6pm. The immediate cause of the…
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, was on Wednesday not present at the inauguration of his successor, Yahaya Bello, in Lokoja, where the handover ceremony took place. Wada, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was not seen around the venue of the event. He was not on ground to perform handover formalities…
There was tension among motorists and pedestrians on Wednesday evening when officers of the Mobile Police and a Navy personnel engaged in a gun battle in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. It was gathered that both men of the Force showed their supremacy in a gun duel, which left many people scampering to safety…
Operatives of the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday invaded the Borno State House of Assembly and sealed it. Some members of the Assembly were also reportedly arrested by the anti-graft agency and taken away in their vehicles. It was gathered that the Assembly was sealed over an alleged fraud. It was also…
Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya has stressed the need for media practitioners to be thorough and be armed with accurate facts and figures in their investigative journalism. He also asked them to always project the image of the State in its true perspective to counter the negative picture being presented…
An aide to the Commissioner of Police, Railway Command, Lagos State, identified as Agu, has been accused of having a forceful carnal knowledge of a lady. The victim was also said to have passed out after the suspect beat her to coma and still went ahead to sleep with her afterwards. According to a report…
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has hailed the late Olubadan, Oba Samuel Odulana, who joined his ancestors on Tuesday at his palace in Ibadan, the state capital. He promised to give the late monarch a befitting burial. Ajimobi, during the official notification of the passage of late Odulana, described him as an accomplished all-rounder…
Managing Director of the Enugu State Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA, Dominic Okonkwo, has been told to appear before the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, on January 28, 2016, to answer a case of assault against him and his agency. It was alleged that officials of ESWAMA assaulted and caused bodily harms to the duo of…
By Fidel Njamanze Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya, Tuesday spoke on the problem of imposition in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, urging members to join him to reform the party. “It is a historic challenge which we must rise to confront squarely,” he said at the maiden tripartite meeting of…