A Pantami Magistrates’ Court in Gombe on Monday remanded an 18-year-old man, Umar Abdullahi, in prison for insulting Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on facebook. The Magistrate, Alhaji Bello Sheriff, who ordered that Abdullahi of Tudun-Wada Quarters, Gombe metropolis, be remanded in prison, adjourned the case to Nov. 26 for further mention. Abdullahi, charged with defamation of character of ... Read More »
Two persons were killed on Wednesday, while no fewer than nine others were injured after a tipper rammed into pedestrians at the U-turn end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The tipper was said to be avoiding a government convoy of seven vehicles that allegedly drove recklessly into the expressway from a side road. The incident was said to have occurred between ... Read More »
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has expressed deep shock at the sudden death of former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Professor Festus Iyayi and called on players in the education sector, including the Federal Government and striking lecturers in the country to rededicate themselves to the pursuit of excellence at the tertiary level in honour of ... Read More »
Thousands of retired civil servants in Delta State whose pension payment have been delayed now have reason to be happy following a reprieve from Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan who has directed an immediate payment of pension arrears. By the arrangement hammered out in a meeting between the Governor and members of the organized labour union, government would in the next four ... Read More »
Banks’ appetite for consumer products financing is falling as operators adjust to the harvests of tough regulatory policies rolled out by the Central Bank of Nigeria in recent times, but Skye Bank’s Executive Director, Retail Division/South South Business Development, Mrs. Ibiye Ekong, in this interview says lack of adequate consumer data base is largely responsible for the seeming loss of ... Read More »
The furore that has started since wednesday that the National Presdent of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Yinka Gbadebo criticised Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State over the killing of Foluso Ogundare at Emure Ekiti in Emure local government area of the state took a strange dimension this evening as the National Secretariat of NANS accuses Fayemi ... Read More »
A Stakeholders meeting to pave way for the construction of Africa’s largest Industrial Gas city in Ogidigben, Warri South West Local Government Area was held yesterday in Warri with Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan asking for cooperation from all communities in the area to ensure that the project got underway smoothly. The multi-billion dollars project would be located back to back with ... Read More »
The beating of Journalists by the men of the State Security Service (SSS) continued on Saturday at the wedding of Bisoye Obasanjo and his wife, Chigozie Nwenyi at Okpuitumo, Ndufu Ikwo Development Centre of Ikwo LGA, Ebonyi State, South East Nigeria. One of the SSS attached to the governor of Ebonyi State, took out time to deal with the camera ... Read More »
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