The All Progressive Congress today received hundreds of members of the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, and Africa Democratic Congress into its fold at Igueben, headquarters of the Igueben Local Government area of Edo State ahead of the state governorship election. Receiving the decampees, the Director General, APC Campaign Council, Mat...
•Rape Justice T. N . Nzeukwu of the Imo State High Court has convicted and sentenced a pastor, Desmond Eke, to eight years imprisonment for raping his church member’s wife. Eke, the founder of Deliverance Ministry of the Good Shepherd, Umuehieta Avu, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State was found guilty of taking […]
•House of Representatives The members of the House of Representatives have yet to implement their resolution to slash their salaries by 50 per cent for the next six months. The federal lawmakers made the resolution on July 18 and it was expected to reflect in their salaries for the month of July but the spokesman […]
•Turkish flag Turkey’s interior minister said today that 99 suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group had been detained in recent raids across the country. The arrests were made mainly in Ankara and in Izmir in the west, as well as in the centre, east and south, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya posted on X. […]
•The released NYSC members Four corps members abductors in lfon, Ose council area of Ondo State, have narrated their four days ordeal in the kidnappers’ den. Recall that the corp members were kidnapped along the Ifon-Owo highway in the state, on their way from Enugu State, where they had undergone the mandatory orientation camp of [&hell...
•NYSC members Kidnappers who abducted five youth corps members travelling along Ifon/ Owo road on Friday evening have demanded a sum of N15m ransom, threatening to kill the victims if the families failed to pay the ransom. The kidnappers were said to have contacted the families of the victims over the weekend, demanding N30m per […]
All 19 crew onboard a drilling platform, Britania U, have been rescued following a fire incident that gutted the drilling platform at Ajakpa Field, (OML 90), 10.77 nautical miles South of Forcadoes Terminal in Delta, Nigeria. Disclosing this in a statement today, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said the agency c...
•National Youth Service Corps members An unspecified number of corps members deployed in Ekiti State have been injured following the collapse of the hostel wall of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Ise-Emure, Ekiti. Sources in the camp said the female section of the hostel collapsed this morning, reports Daily Trust. ...
•Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said today that 60 per cent of Hamas fighters had been “eliminated or wounded” in the Gaza war since the militant group’s October 7 attacks. In a statement to parliament on the first nine months of the conflict, Gallant said that the military was “determined” [&hell...
•Youth Corps members The family of Bassey Daniel, one of the prospective National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members from Akwa Ibom State, kidnapped in Zamfara State has called on relevant stakeholders, including the state government to help rescue him. Daniel, an indigene of Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State is the only remaining [...

