The Senate on Tuesday referred the request of President Muhammadu Buhari for approval of 75 million dollar World Bank loan for Edo to its ad hoc Committee on Local and Foreign Debt. The seven-member ad hoc committee, which was constituted at plenary on Tuesday was charged to consider the request and report back to the […]
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Wole Newton, principal of the school By Omotolani Alamu The old students of the Stephen Centre International School and Home, Obantoko, Abeokuta, Ogun State capital have accused the Director, Rev. Isaac Oluwole Newton-Wusu of alleged molestation, sexual assault and child labour among others. The old students, under the auspices of Concerned Past Students of Stephen […]
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Rivers Police Commissioner dies at 56
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr Francis Odesanya, has died. A statement issued by the Force spokesman, Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Jimoh Moshood in Abuja on Tuesday, said Odesanya died in India after a brief illness. He said the late Odesanya who died at the age of 56, was enlisted into the Force […]
Barrister Jonah Okah, a loyalist of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, has just been arrested by the police in Bayelsa State. His arrest is feared to be in connection with his recent posts on FaceBook, criticising Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State. In an SMS he sent to Sylva’s […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (2nd right); Managing Director, Nigeria Port Authority (NPA), Hadiya Hadiza Bala Usman (right); Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Ladi Lawanson (left) and Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello (2nd left) during the Governor’s meeting with NPA, Tank Farm Owners, Shippers Council and other Stakeholders on the Apapa Traffic […]
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), to suspend it 5-day warning strike. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment made the appeal in a statement. The minister noted that it was imperative for the union to suspend the strike in the interest of the […]
The Edo House of Assembly on Wednesday approved the construction of houses for former governors and their deputies which should not be more than N200 million and N100 million, respectively, in any location of their choice. The approval was sequel to the consideration of a bill for a law to amend the existing legislation on […]
Justice Olabisi Akinlade of an Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Thursday sentenced to death two of the four persons accused of killing Cynthia Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student. The accused Okwumo Nwabufo, and Olisaeloka Ezike, the judge ruled, will die by hanging. Osokogu was murdered on 22 July 2012 at Cosmilla Hotel, […]
An Omi-Adio Chief Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday ordered the remand of six men over the alleged murder of Col. Anthony Okeyin , the Commandant, Command Day Secondary School, Apata, Ibadan. The defendants- Solomon Agada-Emmanuel, 20; Taiwo Adeniyi, 33; Kehinde Bibisoye, 27; Andrew Ewere , 25; Udobata Orusa-Uzi, 28, and Ephraim Obi, 38, were arraigned […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday adjourned till March 15, a no-case submission filed by Charles Okah, the alleged mastermind of the Independence Day bombing at Eagle Square Abuja in 2010. A no case submission is a term used in criminal cases whereby a defendant seeks acquittal without having to present a […]