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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has praised the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) for criticizing the arrest of the separatist group’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, via its International Working Group.The organization also praised Kanu’s international lawyer, Bruce Fein, for his efforts in calling the body’s notice to the IPOB leader’s suffering. An international…
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN), on Sunday dismissed the #EndSARS panel set up by the Lagos State Government and the report it presented to state government recently. Keyamo said it was out of the jurisdiction of the panel to investigate the activities of Federal Government institutions and officials such…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain Raymond Dokpesi’s United States (U.S.)visa has been revoked because his name is on the looters-list released by the Federal Government, the media mogul has said. Chief Dokpesi has consequently sued the Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who announced the list, seeking payment of N5billion damages. No date…
Suspected herdsmen have allegedly killed a farmer, Adetona Owolabi, on his farm on Thursday at Afon in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State. This killing came barely few hours after the state government said it had taken measures to prevent clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the state. Our correspondent gathered that trouble began…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday convicted an 87 year-old woman, Maria Seriki, of dealing in 10.3 kg of Cannabis Sativa. The judge, Justice Hadiza Rabiu-Shagari however, ordered that the convict be remanded at the Lagos State Old People’s Home, pending the time a member of her family, willing to take proper…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out an application by former President Goodluck Jonathan seeking an order setting aside the subpoena issued to him to appear in defense of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh. The court presided over by Justice Okon Abang, also dismissed…
A 22-year-old lady, identified as Rebecca Tina, is being held by the police in Enugu for killing her uncle, Friday Mathew. Mathew was murdered at the Independence Layout area of Enugu on Thursday. Tina, an indigene of Ikot Udobang Ukanafon, Akwa Ibom State, was arrested by the operatives of New Haven Police Station, Enugu, while…
A 33-year-old woman, Fatima Balogun, was Wednesday, arrested by prison officials as she tried smuggling a mobile phone, hidden in a cooler of soup, to her robbery suspect boyfriend being held at Ibara Prisons, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The woman was reportedly arrested at the prison’s gate lodge by the Special Intelligence Unit of Nigerian Prisons,…
The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, today, urged the general public to desist from using the newly constructed Ogun Standard roads for organizing parties and other social events. TRACE Corps Commander/Chief Executive, Cdr. Seni Ogunyemi, gave the directive in Abeokuta, while reacting to the use of part of Omida axis of the…
The Senator Ibikunle Amosun lead Ogun State Government says it is targeting over N3bn additional revenue from the informal sector of the state economy as it enlists about one million residents from the sector into the tax net. Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Kunle Adeosun, made this disclosure during an interview with…
