A shop owner in Iran, Zeinab Khenyab has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said today. According to the network, Zeinab Khenyab was earlier sentenced to three months in prison in December in another case, for “propaganda against the state.” The woman [...
•Akeredolu’s body Nine days after the demise of the late Governor of Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, his remains arrived in Nigeria today. This was contained in a Facebook post by the former Chief Press Secretary to the late governor, Mr Richard Olatunde. Akeredolu passed away on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, in Germany, during a […]...
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has announced plans to employ additional aid workers to improve humanitarian response time. The ministry said the employment would be on a temporal basis as part of the federal government’s commitment to reduce unemployment in the country, reports The PUNCH. It was earlier reported t...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area Command II, has impounded a bullion van loaded with 12 bags of 50kg smuggled foreign parboiled rice. The van, with registration number, FKJ 993 BZ was impounded alongside the sum of N24,489,500.00 belonging to the Abeokuta branch of Access bank, reports Daily Trust. The Customs Area Controller, Olus...
•Inmates The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has described as misleading a report circulated in a section of the media purporting that Nigerian inmates are fed with N200 daily instead of N750 approved by the federal government. Spokesperson of NCoS, Assistant Controller of Corrections, Abubakar Umar, in a statement today said the report w...
•Train station The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Engineer Fidet Okhiria, told our correspondent exclusively that the workers arrested yesterday for ticket racketeering were staff of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) and not staff of the NRC. This is even as the MD confirmed that the fre...
•CBT centre The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), has passionately called for the cancellation of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) format in the forthcoming West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams. The forum believes that such mode of examination to be introduced will result in massive failure for students, particularly in rural state...
•Funke Akindele Celebrities have congratulated ace producer Funke Akindele after her latest film, “A Tribe Called Judah” grossed N1 billion in ticket sales. The movie grossed the N1 billion figure 20 days after its release in cinemas to become the first ever Nollywood movie to achieve the feat, reports Vanguard. Taking to her Instagram account...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, yesterday, raised the alarm that youths in Borno State are drinking fermented human urine, preserved over 10 days, as an alternative to hard drugs. The Commander of Narcotics of the NDLEA in Borno State, Iliyasu Mani, disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri. He said abuse of psychoactive substances ...
•Fire Suspected arsonists have invaded the residence of a 75-year-old elder sister of the Attah Igala, Mathew Opaluwa, and set her ablaze, killing her in the process. The woman identified as Meimunat Opaluwa Sani was set ablaze alongside her granddaughter, Hajarat, in the early hours of yesterday, at her Oketekwe residence in Idah Local Govern...
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