•Police No fewer than seven persons were within two days drowned in the lagoon, beach, and hotel swimming pools in Lagos. This is just as emergency responders have recovered the body of one of the deceased passengers of an accident on the Third Mainland Bridge on Wednesday, reports Nigerian Tribune. The image maker in charge […]
Tragedy struck in the Gbagada area of Lagos, after a yet-to-be-identified woman was stabbed to death by her househelp in her 29, Kiniun-Ifa Street, Sawmill apartment. No one could tell when exactly the fleeing househelp, identified simply as Peter, committed the murder, reports Vanguard. However, the lifeless body of the woman, according to in...
Mohammed Ibrahim, the President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), has threatened that the union alongside the Non-academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU) will shut down the universities in the country if the government refuses to grant their demands in the next seven days. He disclos...
•Sanwo-Olu As Nigerians lament the high cost of living crisis in the country, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that Lagos State civil servants from Level 1 to 14 will come to work physically three times a week and work virtually for the two other days to ease economic pressure in the state. The governor, who […]
•Judges Forty days after 11 Justices were screened and confirmed by the Senate following their nomination for promotion to the Supreme Court, the justices are yet to be sworn in. Their nomination was made to avoid violating the provision of the Constitution that stipulates 21 justices for the apex court, reports The Guardian. Before the [&hell...
•Kidnapped Akwa Ibom NYSC members Distraught parents of seven Akwa Ibom prospective National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members kidnapped in Zamfara State are losing hope on the fate of their children still in kidnappers’ den over four months after they were abducted. Recall that on August 17 2023, an 11-seater Akwa Ibom State Transport Compan...
•Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo The federal government has declared Monday 25, Tuesday, 26 December, 2023, and Monday, January, 1st 2024 as public holidays to mark Christmas and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the declaration on behalf of the federal government today Friday...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till tomorrow, to hear the application option by a man in the custody of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mr. Obiora Samuel, seeking to enforce his right to freedom. Samuel, in the court paper, told the court that he has been in the anti-narcotics […]
Five infants among the 17 villagers abducted by bandits a month ago in Anguwar Danlele and Anguwar Bawa villages, located within the Randagi ward of the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area have died in captivity. It could be recalled that on October 7, 17 villagers, including the infants’ mothers, were taken into the bush by […]
•Some guber candidates: Melaye (Kogi), Uzodinma (Imo), Sylva (Bayelsa) At least three persons have been killed with several others injured in separate attacks in Kogi and Bayelsa states ahead of the Saturday gubernatorial election. This is also coming on the heels of alleged attacks on the opposition in Imo State where an election is also [&he...