The immediate past Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Lagos state, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has called for the creation of Diaspora Commission and Database to know the number of Nigerians abroad. Dabiri made the call in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital on Monday while delivering a joint Distinguished ... Read More »
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, on Monday, sentenced 30 ladies to six weeks imprisonment for prostitution. Those sentenced are Funmi Olayemi, Damilola Ibrahim, Blessing Emmanuel, Grace Nwaokoro, Anu Titus, Princess Osu, Cynthian Ozumba, Chindima Eke. Others included Blessing Winwah, Rebecca James, Gift James, Bukola Taiwo, Patience Amos, Oyinda Adesewa, Funmilayo Ajayi, Modinat Bello, Damilola Abiodun, Saki Godwin. Others ... Read More »
A 16-year-old, Timehin Jinadu was burnt to death, as a duplex at Lekki area of Lagos State got burnt this morning. The fire started around 2am on Monday in a duplex at 35C, Ajiran Road, Agungi area of Lekki. The Jinadu family was sleeping when the fire began, it learnt. Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe told P.M. News ... Read More »
Two London-based Nigerian conmen, Godwin Nwaofor and Frank Onyechonam involved in defrauding mainly American pensioners, informing them they had won the Australian Lottery, through bogus letters, have met their waterloo. Daily Mail reports that Nwaofor who had cheated pensioners out of £5m life savings had a ‘suckers list’ of target victims to send his bogus letters to. The letters were sent ... Read More »
Amid fears that a government policy of feeding primary school pupils in the country will impose a huge financial burden on the Buhari administration, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Wednesday that the policy will attract investment to the tune of N980 billion. The vice president also said the school feeding programme will bring create jobs, and raise food production ... Read More »
Today, Thursday 3rd of September, 2015, wasn’t a pleasant one for Abubakar Mohammed as he was sentenced by a Jos Chief Magistrates’ Court to one month imprisonment for impersonating as a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The Magistrate, Mr Tijanni Zololo handed down the sentence after Mohammed pleaded guilty to the crime and begged the court for ... Read More »
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Solomon Arase, has directed all police commands and formations to stop the use of commercial vehicles for operations and patrol duties. This is contained in a statement issued by the Force’s Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, acting Assistant Commissioner of Police, in Abuja on Thursday. The statement said that the directive had been ... Read More »
By Kola Popson “Brother, please stop giving me fish, teach me how to fish,” Chucks, a young man of age twenty seven, said to his immediate elder brother, Emma who would be thirty years next week. Emma, an affluent young man, looked at his brother in bewilderment and said rhetorically, “What are you talking about? Aside the fact that I ... Read More »
By Kola Popson You are probably wondering whose kindness I need to reciprocate. Well, while it is no doubt that you were created only by God; it is a known fact that God had chosen some special people through whom you came into this world. These people had a choice to terminate your existence at pregnancy stage, but they chose ... Read More »
By Kola Popson Tomorrow remains mysterious to all due to the fact that no one knows what exactly it holds. Everybody talks about tomorrow. Everybody is cognizant of tomorrow; even the wicked souls are not left out. Tomorrow is worrisome because it is anonymous. As worrisome as tomorrow is, most of us are carried away by it that we forget ... Read More »
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