Mr Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, says any motorist henceforth caught with a fake driver’s licence will be prosecuted. Chidoka said this while fielding questions from newsmen at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja. The corps marshall also said that such motorists will have their vehicles impounded. He said also said a ... Read More »
Two female students of the Osun State University (UniOsun) were allegedly raped at the weekend while several male students were brutalised by hoodlums who stormed their hostels located outside the Osogbo Main Campus of the university. The hoodlums numbering about 12 were said to have invaded the students area situated at Oke Baale, Suzzy Hotel area of Osogbo, Sunday night ... Read More »
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two foreigners with narcotic drugs, as narcotics officers warn that drug barons might have shifted their operation to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA) Enugu. The two suspected drug traffickers were caught during inward and outward screening of Ethiopian airline passengers. They are a 54-year-old Ghanaian comedian, Musah Iddrisu, ... Read More »
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday February 25, 2014 arraigned one Pastor David Ayoade before Justice H.A.Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt on an 8-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. The accused allegedly obtained the sum of N5, 200, 00.00 (Five Million, Two Hundred Thousand Naira) at different times from one Mrs. ... Read More »
According to Pmnews A yet to be identified man on Monday successfully traded a 15-year old boy, Seun Aderinwale, for two bags of rice valued at N20,000 at Igando in Alimosho area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. According to eyewitness account, the man, whose address is unknown, went to 4, Ifesowapo Street, Igando, on Monday morning to buy two bags ... Read More »
The Nigeria Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah was ordered this morning to provide special security for all schools and health institutions in the Boko Haram affected areas of the North East. The order was passed down to the army chief at a budget hearing this morning by the Committee . The Committee chaired by Senator George Thompson ... Read More »
An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday granted bail to two MTN employees, Victor Akintunde and Gani Mustapha, charged with stealing N1.3 billion belonging to the firm’s cooperative society. Akintunde (41) and Mustapha (46) are former President and Secretary of the MTN Employees Multi-purpose Cooperative Society (MEMCOS) respectively. They were charged to court alongside a property developer, Mutairu ... Read More »
Suspected cult members have attacked and killed a 23-year-old man, Segun Olukoga, a DSTV engineer in the Mushin area of Lagos. Olukoga, who was the only son of his parents, was planning to celebrate his 24th birthday on March 15. It was learnt that the victim was trailed by the gang members to Amu Street around 11am on Thursday. He ... Read More »
An Indian Neurosurgeon, Dr. Raju Bhuvaneswara Basina, has been arrested by officials of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria for operating without a practice licence. The 53 years old Doctor was arrested by the Police from Apo Resettlement Division on Monday in Abuja at Asokoro District Hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, following a fresh round of onslaught by ... Read More »
A Nigerian businessman has been jailed for 12 years after he was found guilty of stabbing his wife as she slept in their home. Oluwabusayo Abegunde, 38, (pictured above) stabbed his wife repeatedly with a kitchen knife after he went through her phone and discovered she was seeing someone else. Esther Abegunde, 33, told her husband of ten years that ... Read More »
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