Category: LOCAL NEWS

11th CONVOCATION: 440 graduands bag distinction at FEDPOFFA – Rector, Dr. Lateef

    The Rector of the Federal Polytechnic Offa (FEDPOFFA), Dr. Lateef Olatunji, says 440 graduating students of the polytechnic have bagged distinctions in...

Incredible! FEDPOFFA Industrial Liaison Directorate Awards Retired Staff In Sendforth Program

    Says Staff Transfered From Directorate Since 2018   In an attempt to honour staff’s dedication and commitment, The Industrial Liaison and Place...

Nigerian University Employs 60 Hunters As Security Personnel Over Rising Kidnappings

    The Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State, has resorted to local security to tackle all forms of insecurities challenges facing the school as the services...

Lagos Local Council Imposes ‘Illegal’ N100 Daily Levy On PoS Operators After Yearly Tax Payment

    Point of Sale operators in the Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State have been asked to pay a daily levy of N100 (Monday to Friday) to...

Police Arrest Two Residents After Cutting Off Each Other’s Hands During Fight

    Operatives of the Yobe State Police Command have arrested two Fulani youths for cutting off each other’s hands during a fight at Bakin-Ruwa settlement in...

Shock, confusion trail murder of Delta couple

    Confusion has persisted over the murder of a couple identified as Chidi and Rita Edebor in their residence at Ekwuoma- Abavo in Ika South Local Government...

Akeredolu allays fears over soldiers’ withdrawal from checkpoints in Ondo

    Cleric condemns kidnappings, urges Fed Govt to tackle insecurity Six days after the 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure, dismantled all checkpoints in Ondo State,...

‘Yahoo Boy’ crushes 2 to death in Ondo, vehicle set ablaze

    Two persons have been crushed to death by a suspected ‘Yahoo boy’ at Ademulegun road in Ondo town, Ondo state.   Four other persons were injured...

Civil servant’s daughters held for 12 years over N1m ransom

    Twelve years after the disappearance of his two daughters on farmland in Deeyor community, in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, a man,...

Ekiti, Osun 2022: Oni charges PDP to present popular candidates

    A Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in the fourth coming Ekiti State Governorship election, Chief Segun Oni, has urged the PDP to learn from...

Two feared dead in Lagos BRT, commercial bus crash

    Two people were feared dead and several others injured in a crash involving a Bus Rapid Transit vehicle and a commercial bus on the Ile-Epo, Agege end of...

Ogun teacher tackles bank, online store as fraudsters empty account

    A teacher, Comfort Mufutau, has lamented unauthorised debits to the tune of N215,000 from her Guaranty Trust Bank account for the purchase of recharge...

40-year-old butcher arrested over lover’s death after sex

    A 48-year-old butcher, Segun Taiwo, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for the death of his 50-year-old mistress, Abimbola Olusola. The...

Twins detained over N215,000 hospital bill

    Twin babies — a boy and a girl — born on October 22 at Supreme Royal hospital in Lagos, have been detained by the hospital management over unpaid...

43-year-old man arrested for beating daughter to death over persistent crying

    The Osun State Government on Sunday said it arrested a resident identified simply as Sanjo, in Osogbo, the state capital, for allegedly beating his child...

Effiong Bob: Healthy Reflections From The Past (2)

  The past may not always be glorious but it sure allows us into history, to enable us make informed decisions and guided actions for the future. However, for Sen....

2023: Tinubu’s Return Revs Up Political Activities

    Barely four weeks after the return of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to Nigeria from a medical trip in...

Aso Rock Electrical Installations Repairs To Gulp N5.2bn In 2022

    President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking the National Assembly’s approval to spend N5.2 billion on maintenance of an undisclosed number of electrical and...

BREAKING: Ocean Incursion Washes Off Ugborodo Community In Delta

    An early Sunday morning heavy downpour has washed off Constain, a community in Ugborodo in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. The above...

NiMet predicts 3-day thunderstorms, sunshine from Monday

    The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) predicted on Sunday that there would be three days of thunderstorms and sunshine across the country from Monday...