The recurring aircraft incidents involving local airlines have been generating global safety concerns. Apart from the dip in the confidence of the flying public, industry watchers say the time was ripe for the government to beam its searchlight on the operational competence of local airlines and...
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Commercial activities at the Ado-Ekiti business office of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) were paralysed for about two hours yesterday as electricity consumers protested what they called the company’s “crazy bills”. Acting under the aegis of Ado Ekiti Landlords and Ladies...
Two Compact Discs (CDs) showing video recordings of suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (aka Evans)’s confessions were played yesterday at an Ikeja Special Offences Court. The video recordings beamed on the wall of the court room before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo showed Evans...
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Some aggrieved parents of the candidates who sat for the on-going Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB are threatening to drag the board to court following lots of complaints that characterized the exercise in the state...
Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Tuesday cleared the air on why he is endorsing his son in-law, Mr Uche Nwosu, to take over from him as governor. Speaking with newsmen at the Sam Mbakwe International Airport in Owerri, shortly on arrival from an overseas trip, Okorocha said …
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A Presidency source late Sunday night confirmed that at least 145 suspects have since been arrested by the Nigeria Police following herdsmen/farmers clashes in some parts of the country, including Benue, Kaduna and Nasarawa states. The arrests occurred between January 2016 and January 2018...
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Those kicking against the implementation of the revised LUC Act are living with the fear of the harmless, experts have said. To them, the outrage over the law reviewed by the administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to bridge infrastructural deficit in Lagos State, is uncalled for, reports …...
There was a tragedy in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, yesterday, after a mother and her two children were crushed to death by a car. The incident, which happened along the Isaac Boro expressway, was reportedly caused by the driver’s overspeeding and loss of control. The incident occurred at …
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commended his deputy Prof Yemi Osinbajo for being a loyal and dependable partner to an enviable position. The President gave the commendation on his twitter handle @MBuhari while congratulating Osinbajo at 61. He was joining millions of friends and...
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Parents of some of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls wept yesterday as they staged a protest in front of the National Assembly in Abuja to draw attention to their plight. They urged the government to do everything possible to bring back the 110 pupils of the Government Girls …
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A 46-year-old pastor, Joshua Aranse, on Thursday told an Alagbado Customary Court in Lagos that he impregnated another woman and abandoned his matrimonial home for four years because of sex starvation. “I am a pastor and I counsel people. It is true that I abandoned her. For …
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More women have been urged to become tricycle riders as a means of livelihood. Business Head of Simba Group, Minish Rohtagi made the call in Lagos on Thursday during the celebration of the 2018 Women’s Day, Simba group to announce plans to empower women. The group promised providing a …
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The Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (FUNAI), in Ebonyi state, has found solution to the soil contamination in the Niger Delta region and other parts of the country using rice husk derived biochar. The experiment which heats up rice husk in a locally made carbonizer produces biochar which …...
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Black Africa’s Richest Female Magnate, Folorunso Alakija has said women are not in fierce competition with the men. Alakija stated this during a visit to The Nation Headquarters in Lagos on Thursday which coincided with the commemoration of the International Women’s Day. “We are not in...
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Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has charged perpetrators of abductions and various harmful practices against women and girls to stop forthwith. She was speaking during an event to mark the 2018 International Women’s Day, on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at the National Center for Women...
A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced a 20-year-old man, Sadiq Ahmed, to three months imprisonment for stealing books and window frames. Ahmed, of Jabi Motor Park, had pleaded guilty to a count charge of trespass and stealing, punishable under Section 287 of the …
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Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), has won yet another national acclaim as the University of the Year Award 2017. This time around, it is from Daily Asset Newspapers which gave the Award at its maiden Annual Awards and Lecture of Daily Asset with the theme “Democratic Leadership: …...
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The Federal Government’s data mining efforts have identified a new batch of over 130,000 high networth individuals and companies with potential tax underpayments. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, broke the news yesterday while appearing on “Good Morning Nigeria”, a Nigerian Television...
The Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) has kicked against the “elongation” of the party’s national and state executives tenure, saying it is against the country’s and APC’s constitutions. Rising from a Consultative Forum held at the State House Marina, Lagos and attended by party elders...
A personal trainer who allowed his hands to wonder beyond limit in the course of massaging women has been jailed after three women came forward to report sexual assault Iranian Mohsen Dastvard, 37, abused his victims when he should have been giving them sports massages.
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