•King Charles King Charles III was on Friday admitted to a London hospital for scheduled surgery, Buckingham Palace said, a week after revealing the British monarch would be treated for an enlarged prostate. “The king was this morning admitted to a London hospital for scheduled treatment,” the palace added, noting that he thanked “all those [&...
A Magistrate court sitting in Katsina has remanded in prison custody, the chairman of Batagarawa Local Government in Katsina State, Mr Bala Garba Tsanni over alleged murder, abduction and culpable homicide. The chairman and 11 others were arraigned before the court under sections 59, 249 and 189 of the Katsina penal code law, reports Nigerian ...
•Police checkpoint Nigeria’s bad roads and other transportation infrastructure are fuelling illegal taxation, human rights violations and inflation. The development is also worsening ease of doing business, food wastage and environmental disaster. KINGSLEY JEREMIAH, in this special report by The Guardian paints a picture of the ordeal. On the ...
•Akinlade Olutunji The National President of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, Akinlade Olutunji, has said that no state governor in Nigeria has the legal right to ban mining activities in their states. He said that the mining act is found in the executive list and under the control of the federal government, reports Daily […...
•Prepaid meters The poor electricity situation nationwide has worsened with the decline of power supply to the national grid. Many communities across the length and breadth of the country have since last month been experiencing low energy supply and in some instances, outright blackouts, reports The Nation. Yesterday, the Transmission Company ...
•Akpabio The Office of the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has issued a warning to the public regarding a fraudulent online loan application circulating on social media platforms. The fake offer, titled “N200,000 Palliative Loan By the Senate,” features a misleading image of Senator Akpabio alongside the coat of arms and the logo of...
•Airport The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has disclosed a plan by the state to establish a commercial airline. The announcement was made yesterday during the comprehensive presentation of the administration’s achievements in the West of Lagos at the Lagos West Senatorial District People’s Town Hall Meeting. The state government is...
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•Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola The Supreme Court has upheld the five-year sentence of former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, for receiving a bribe of $500,000 from businessman Femi Otedola. Lawan was tried for receiving a $500,000 bribe during a legislative probe into the fuel subsidy regime in 2012. … developing story
•Siminalayi Fubara The Rivers State Government, yesterday, expressed its unhappiness about the arraignment of some loyalists of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, in connection with the October 30, 2023 bombing of the Rivers State Assembly complex. The police yesterday arraigned the governor’s loyalists before the Federal High Court in Abuja. They we...

