The South African authorities has on Friday reviewed the death toll from the recent flooding to 87, with the previous 70. The widespread flooding over the Easter weekend has resulted in the loss of 87 lives in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, and the Free State provinces. Kwa-Zulu Natal, however, accounts for 71 of the fatalities, the … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to receive President of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA) Ms Maria Espinosa, who is paying a one-day official visit to Nigeria on Monday. President Muhammadu Buhari Espinosa’s Spokesperson, Ms. Monica Gravley, made this known at a media briefing at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday. According to … Read more
The Police Command in Enugu State said it has arrested nine armed robbery suspects in Enugu State within a period of one month. The command has also recovered an AK 47 rifle, two locally-made double barrel guns, and two locally-made pistols as well as two live cartridges. Parading the suspects on Friday in … Read more
The All-Share Index of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has maintained positive growth for the second consecutive day, growing by 0.14 per cent. Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE Reports have it that the index which opened at 29,171.73 chalked up 40.27 points or 0.04 per cent to close at 29,212,00 due to price appreciation. … Read more
Former Central Bank governor and current Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, has been named by the Giant telecommunication company, MTN, as a Non-Executive Director. The appointment of Sanusi comes as Nigeria’s telecoms giant MTN prepares to list its local unit on the Nigerian stock exchange, a condition of the settlement of a $1 bn regulatory … Read more
The President, Nigerian Citizens Association South Africa (NICASA), Mr. Ben Okoli, has alleged that another Nigeria, one Ebuka Udugbo, has been killed by South African Police. He said the circumstances surrounding the death of Udugbo and investigations by his group indicated that he was killed by the police while held in custody following a disagreement … Read more
Oba Saheed Elegushi would today, May 3, 2019 be taking a second wife in Kano State. His bride according to City People Magazine is Hadiza Tanko, the younger sibling of the Special Adviser to the Kano State Governor, Alhaji Dr. Umaru Ganduje, Salihu Tanko Yakasai. Many had speculated over the years about whether the King … Read more
Workers were evacuated from offices today as a man was arrested by police after reports of a suspicious package in Manchester city centre. Greater Manchester Police said the 26-year-old man was held by officers and a cordon was put in place following the incident at Piccadilly Gardens. Photographs from the scene showed officers guarding the … Read more
At least 90 people, including 65 children, are believed to have been infected with the HIV virus in Pakistan by a doctor using a contaminated syringe, officials said Friday. “We have arrested a doctor after receiving complaints from the health authorities,” said Kamran Nawaz, the local police chief heading the case in the southern city … Read more
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has mourned the death of Mrs. Comfort Melaye, mother of lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye. He described her as a worthy matriarch who bequeathed her generation with Godly and respectable children. Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said … Read more
An Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos on Friday ordered that a 45-year-old man, Celestine Onwusonye, be remanded in prison for allegedly assaulting a 10-year-old girl sexually Magistrate Olufunke Sule- Amzat, who did not take the plea of the defendant, ordered that the defendant be remanded in Kirikiri Prison. Sule-Amzat ordered the police to send … Read more
A 54-year-old woman, identified as Olabisi Olawoye, was on Friday arraigned before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly posing as a Police Superintendent (SP) to defraud a Chief Magistrate. The defendant, who was brought before the court on a charge of impersonation, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecutor, Insp. … Read more
Four women and five children died has been announced dead on Friday after their migrant boat sank off the Turkish coast, the coastguard said. The boat went down off Balikesir province in western Turkey, the coastguard said in a statement, without giving the nationality of those on board. Five other passengers were saved from the … Read more
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has nullified the election of a member-elect representing Yola South/Yola North/Girei Federal constituency of Adamawa state, Abdulrauf Modibbo for age falsification. Justice Inyang Ekwo held on Friday that Modibbo, who was declared the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries, held on October 7, 2018, in Yola, and … Read more
yprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday sacked the country’s police chief as pressure mounted over the authorities’ botched and delayed response to the killings of seven foreign women and girls. A letter by the president to Zacharias Chrysostomou, seen by AFP, informed the police chief that his services would be considered “terminated” as of May … Read more
Lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye, loses mum Comfort Melaye. The lawmaker announced the death of his mother on Twitter on Thursday night, Melaye did not, however, give details of the death. He wrote, “With total submission to the will of the Almighty God, I on behalf of the Melaye’s announce the … Read more
The family of Rev. William Okoye, the General Overseer of All Christians Fellowship Mission, has announced the death of his wife, Rev. Helen Titilayo Okoye. Aso Rock Chaplain Late Evangelist Helen OkoyeOkoye, who was a former Aso Rock Chaplain made the announcement in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday in Abuja Okoye, who … Read more
A chieftain of the PDP, Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe, said on Friday that he was set to dump the opposition party for the ruling APC. Ogunlewe, a former Minister of Works, confirmed the development in an interview with a political correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos State. He was reacting to the recent … Read more
Gen. Yakubu Gowon, former Nigerian Head of State, slumped mid way during the oration at the grave side of late Maj Gen David Akpodiete Ejoor, in Ovwor-Olomu Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. This is coming just as military personnel fruitlessly made efforts to bar visual coverage of the ugly incident. Military, … Read more
Four persons have reportedly lost their lives as suspected herdsmen, farmers engaged in a fierce battle in Iwoye Ketu area of Ogun State. Information had it that Fulani herdsmen took their cattle to drink from the community stream a development which was challenged by a resident. One of the herdsmen was said to have shot … Read more