•Fire razes market An early morning fire yesterday destroyed goods worth millions of naira in Oja Tuntun, the biggest market in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Between July 2019 and December 2020, the market experienced three fire incidents, which destroyed many shops and goods, reports The Guardian. Although the cause of the latest incident was not know...
Motorists and travellers were stranded on the Lokoja-Okene Expressway on November 11, 2023, as voters decide the next governor of Kogi State for the next four years. Some of the travellers were intercepted at military checkpoints on the busy highway, reports Channels TV. Earlier, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, ordered...
The National Industrial Court (NIC) has restrained the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) as well as their affiliates from embarking on any form of strike or industrial action. The two major labour unions were yesterday evening ordered to stop their nationwide strike action scheduled to commence on Tuesday, Novem...
The body of another woman has been found in her apartment in the Ogbumbada compound in Rumalogu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. A source said the woman, identified as Blessing Williams, was found dead in her apartment yesterday, reports The PUNCH. The source, who pleaded anonymity, said the single mother has been […...
•The Howo Sino truck Two persons died this morning in a crash that occurred at the Kara turning of the inward section of the Lagos – Ibadan expressway. It was learnt that ten others were seriously injured in the accident that involved a white colour Mazda bus marked XV 945 EPE and an unregistered white […]
•Justice Oyewole Adeyeye The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Oyewole Adeyeye, is set to resume on Monday, four months after after a section of the state high court complex collapsed on the judge while in his office. Justice Adeyeye was still in his chamber at the time of the collapse on Wednesday, July 12, […]
•Ajaero and Uzodinma Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has said the assault on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, is regrettable. Uzodimma stated this during an interview on Channels TV last night. Ajaero was beaten after he was arrested in Imo while leading a protest for better salaries in […]
A retired judge of the Kogi State High Court, Justice Alaba Omolaye-Ajileye, has urged the public against perceiving justice from the prisms of tribe, religion, or geo-political divisions. To him, society ought to be more concerned with whether a case was fairly decided rather than whether the justices from their geo-political zones were on th...
•House of Reps A bill to amend the Central Bank of Nigeria Act scaled second reading at the House of Representatives today. The proposed amendment, according to the sponsor of the bill, Francis Waive, seeks to address critical aspects of the Act to enhance the effectiveness, transparency, and accountability of the apex bank and its […]...
A man suspected to be a scavenger had been crushed to death by a collapsed staircase in an abandoned one-storey building, located at 38 Elechi street, Mile 3 Diobu in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The victim, whose identity is yet to be determined, was said to be under the staircase when it caved in and […]

