Month: October 2024
Page: 19
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday sentenced a 67-year-old Lebanese national, Zuhier R Akar, to 14 years imprisonment for sexually exploiting two teenage girls. NAN reports that the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Kano Command, arraigned Akar of Gidan Wanka, Unity Road, Fagge Local Government Area, Kano […]
A 34-year-old resident in Akintola village in the Odigbo area of Ondo state, Mr Monday Chukwu, has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing his friend, Kefa Ofando, to death. Monday, alongside eleven other criminals nabbed for offences including murder and armed robbery related matters across different location in the state were paraded by […]
Rafael Nadal has announced his retirement from professional tennis. His last event will be the Davis Cup next month in Malaga, wearing Spanish colours. The 38-year-old Spaniard, who won 22 Grand Slam titles including 14 at the French Open, announced the news in a video message posted on X. He said: “Hello everyone. I’m here […]
A man by name Musa Abdulai suspected to be an agent of the bandits in Ekiti State and supplying food items to them at their hideouts have been arrested. According to the press release made available to Newsmen on Thursday morning, the Head of the Communications Department of the Ekiti State Amotekun Corps, Officer Adeleye […]
Oyo State Governor,Engineer Seyi Makinde has urged the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party ,PDP to comprehensively embrace the recommendations of the party’s reconciliation committee. He said this at the PDP National Reconciliation Committee’s press briefing held at the Agodi Government House Ibadan at the end of its assignment in South West. […]
The National Identity Project,a government’s program to sensitize Nigerians on the significance of the National Anthem and National Value Charter has been flagged off. At the event put together by the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Abeokuta Ogun State ,Director of the agency, Mrs Olufunke Salako said the orientation initiative was aimed at providing […]
Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun PhD., NPM., has approved the immediate payment of relief funds to the families of officers that were involved in a fatal motor accident on 24th September 2024 while returning from the Edo Elections Special Duty to Kano State Command. The accident which occurred along the Zaria-Kano Expressway, Karfi […]
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has destroyed seized counterfeit products worth N10 billion in the Northeast zone. The PUNCH reports that the commodities were publicly burnt by the agency in Gombe State on Wednesday. Speaking during the exercise, NAFDAC’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, represented by the North East Zonal Director, Mr […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has condemned the latest hike in petrol pump price by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL. On Wednesday, NNPCL fuel stations in Abuja adjusted the price of the product from N897 to N1,030 per liter. However, in a statement, President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero opposed the new hike […]
All Progressives Congress, APC in Oyo state has taken a swipe on Governor Seyi Makinde over the reports his alleged connivance with some other serving state governors to obtain permanent court order scrapping all anti-graft agencies and thus put paid to the fight against corruption involving public offices and officials of the state government. Gov. […]
