The Lagos State Government has said that it would close both Dopemu and Iyana- Ipaja bridges from March 15, 2014 to April 5, 2014 to pave way for their maintenance. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Transportation and signed by the Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa, the state government will begin maintenance work on the bridges and they ... Read More »
A 29 year-old warder with the old Abeokuta Prisons, Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Joseph Emmanuel is presently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly assisting a prison inmate in carrying out fraudulent financial transactions, as well as using the name and documents of an illiterate taxi driver, to open a First Bank account for ... Read More »
The special operations launched by the anti-Kidnapping squad of the Nigerian Police have rescued the abducted 70 year old cousin to the President, Chief Inengite Nitabai. Inengite Nitabai Chief Nitabai was kidnapped on February 23, 2014 by about 10 gunmen from Otuoke community in Ogbia Local Government of Bayelsa State. No ransom was reportedly paid. Read More »
Beneficiaries of the Kwara State Community Health Insurance Scheme will hit 600,000 mark from the present 80,000 by the year 2018 when the scheme would have been in operation for about eleven years. Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed gave this indication yesterday at the flag-off of the Community Health Insurance Scheme in Share, Headquarters of Ifelodun local Government area and ... Read More »
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a nursing mother, Imaobong Udoh, for allegedly selling her three-day old baby girl. Also arrested along with Imaobong were four persons for allegedly participating in the theft of the baby. They are the buyer, Mrs. Regina James; her husband, Mfon James; the traditional birth attendant who delivered the baby, Mrs. Comfort Henry; ... Read More »
A pensioner duped out of £300,000 of his life savings by a conman who told him he had won the Spanish Lottery was so convinced by the scam that he continued to pay even after police launched an investigation. Chris Chidi Dinneya, 40, who told his victims they had to pay money into an overseas account to release their winnings ... Read More »
THE Court of Appeal, Akure Judicial Division weekend sacked the Jegun of Idepe, Okitipupa, Ondo state, Oba Micheal Adetoye Obanuga and ordered him to vacate the throne with immediate effect. Consequently, the Court ordered that a fresh selection process which must exclude the sacked monarch and the Ruling House which produced him be initiated by the government forthwith. It will ... Read More »
A business woman, Mrs. Olajoke Adesipe, has accused popular musician, Onyeka Onwenu, of assault. Adesipe, who had petitioned the National Human Rights Commission, also said she was forcefully evicted from her shop at the National Centre for Women Development, Abuja on the order of Onyeka, who is the Director-General of the centre. Adesipe, in the letter dated March 3, 2014, ... Read More »
An Ilorin High Court Judge has sentenced two kidnappers, Ajadi Oba AbdulRasheed and Ayeni Abayomi, to imprisonment for criminal conspiracy to commit kidnap, extortion and armed robbery in respect of Biodun Baraje, son of the former acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Kawu Baraje. It would be recalled that AbdulRasheed, Abayomi and two others at large, kidnapped Abiodun ... Read More »
The Iyaloja general of Nigeria and President of association of commodity market women and men of Nigeria, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo has on behalf of all market women and men across the country rejected the list of delegates as representatives of market women to the national conference. In a press statement signed by her media consultant, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, the ... Read More »
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