A Lagos-based lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to put a stop to the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Lagos State. The lawyer is asking the court to declare as illegal, the monthly exercise, during which citizens’ movements were restricted. Joined as respondents are the Inspector General of Police, Lagos State Commissioner of [...]
I can’t recall the number of stolen vehicles I have sold — Alhaji Kabiru Korede.
Alhaji Kabiru Akorede, a suspected car snatcher, has given some rather shocking confessions to the lagos state police after he was arrested recently.Luck fail out on him as he was nabbed by the special Anti-Robery Squad in his residence at NEPA Quarters, Isashi, Lagos. he confessed to the police that he could not count the number of stolen vehicles he has sold to [...]
Kenyan women protest dress harassment
Nairobi - Kenyan women protest dress harassment. Nearly 1 000 people have marched through the streets of Kenya's capital to protest a recent rash of attacks by mobs of men on women who have been deemed too provocatively dressed. Mobile phone videos show the attackers stripping the women naked. In response, the phrase #MyDressMyChoice is trending in Kenya's social media, as [...]
Amosun charges manufacturers on growth
A workable system that would engender increased industrial development in the state is what the state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun wants in the state. Amosun who was represented by the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Otunba Bimbo Ashiru, gave the charge at Ota while speaking at the 25th AGM of the state branch manufacturers Association of Nigeria, (MAN). He also [...]
Kenyan President signs polygamy law
Nairobi - A law allowing men in Kenya to marry as many women as they want was signed into law on Tuesday by President Uhuru Kenyatta, despite criticism from women's groups. A statement from the presidency confirmed that the bill, which it said "consolidates various laws relating to marriage", had been signed into law. The bill, which amended existing legislation, was passed [...]
Ekiti: PDP lawmakers appoint Dele Olugbemi acting speaker
The impeachment saga in Ekiti State House of Assembly has taken a new dimension. A new speaker has been appointed by some PDP lawmakers. Reports say the seven lawmakers were on Monday escorted into the state Assembly Complex in Ekiti by Mobile Police Commander, Selenkere Michael before they appointed Honourable Olugbemi as the acting Speaker. There were also reports that the [...]
Saudi groom divorces his wife on seeing her face on the wedding day
A Saudi groom has divorced his bride on their wedding night after seeing her face for the first time when the photographer asked them to pose for pictures. The couple, from the Western Saudi town of Medinah, had agreed to marry each other despite having not met face to face - a popular custom in certain Middle Eastern countries. But when the bride removed her veil and smiled [...]
NDLEA set to build N60m drug center in Anambra
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is set to construct a model drug rehabilitation center worth N60 million in Anambra State. The Commander of the agency in the state, Mr Sule Momodu, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Monday. Momodu said that, when completed, the center would facilitate prosecution of suspected drug [...]
Court acquitted Femi Fani Kayode of money laundering charge
(Sahara Reporters) Reprieve partially came the way of former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode this morning as a federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria discharged and acquitted him of thirty-eight count charge of money laundering out of forty count charge filed against him, while the court ordered him to enter his defence in the remaining two [...]
Fake LASTMA officials arrested for impersonation
The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended two men, Funsho Williams and Adekogbe Olabode, for allegedly impersonating officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects last Wednesday accosted a 62-year-old retiree, Mr. Felix Adesanya, and demanded N60, 000 from him for allegedly contravening a traffic law. The man, who retired [...]
The Daily Newspapers, Dead Or Still Alive?
They have been serious argument over the future of the daily newspapers worldwide. Some argue that daily newspaper is dead and buried while some believe it still holds the key to the mass information. Yet, there is more to it's predicament than just the impact of the new media. Find out in this article written by Chris Kanyane of News24, a South Africa news media. Enjoy! A [...]
Police parades herbalist for the murder of his client
The Lagos State Police Command weekend, arrested a 55 year-old herbalist in connection with the alleged murder of a 62-year-old woman, who was declared missing last month, at Olodi Apapa area of Lagos. Recovered from the suspect identified as Isiaka Akanbi, who also claimed to be a Muslim cleric, were the deceased’s personal effect which were exhumed in his shrine. The [...]
Ajegunle boils as thugs go weird!
For the residents of a community in Ifelodun Local Government, Lagos State, it has been incessant attacks by heavily armed hoodlums who parade the streets, terrorizing people. In the past two months, the densely populated area witnessed several violent clashes between different groups of thugs who openly brandished assorted weapons with which they terrorize residents of the [...]
Facebook pays Nigerians to work from home!
Looks like the tides are blowing fast towards Nigerians especially those that are constantly glued to their computers. Even before now, there has been a good number of Nigerians making substantial income online. If really you were among those before now, who usually think that anything that has to do with the computers is fraud, you better take your mindsets to the next level [...]
GE takes 15 Nigerian Technicians to Brazil for training
The General Electric has taken it beyond mere words of mouth in its commitment to create jobs, build skills and ensure technology transfer in its operations in Nigeria and beyond, (GE) has sent the first batch of the 15 newly recruited technicians and engineers to Brazil for training in the assembly and test of subsea equipment. The young Nigerians, most of whom are just [...]
South African Government flies back 74 bodies to their country
A cargo plane carrying the remains of 74 South Africans killed in a building collapse in Nigeria landed in Pretoria on Sunday, two months after the accident. The remains of another nine South Africans among the 116 people killed on September 12 when a multi-storey guesthouse collapsed at a Lagos mega-church will be repatriated after the DNA identification process is [...]
Boko Haram: Mubi liberated by military and local vigilante
(THISDAY) Yesterday, residents marched onto the streets of Mubi, Adamawa’s second largest town, singing and celebrating the liberation of the town by a combined team of the Nigerian military, local hunters and the Civilian Joint Task Force, which collaborated to flush out Boko Haram terrorists who had captured the town two weeks ago. Vintim, the hometown of the Chief of [...]
Woman sues owners of dog killed by her pit bulls
(AP) — A Texas woman whose four pit bulls entered her neighbors' yard through a hole in the fence and killed their 10-year-old beagle is suing them for $1 million. Emerald White says in her lawsuit filed this week in Galveston County district court that she was "seriously injured" on Oct. 27 trying to stop the attack and retrieve her dogs. She says she suffered "multiple [...]
Sierra Leone Ebola positive surgeon flown to the US
(AP) — A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone arrived in Nebraska Saturday for treatment at a biocontainment unit where two other people with the disease have been successfully treated. Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on Saturday afternoon and was being transported to the Nebraska Medical [...]
Two men arrested for carrying 50 litres of blood
Policemen attached to the Imota Police Station in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State, were shocked to the bone marrow when the contents of two 25-litre jerry-cans they found in the possession of two men they arrested, turned out to be human blood. The arrested men identified as Alfa Balogun Tajudeen Ogunsanya, who hails from Gberigbe community in Ikorodu, and an [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan – Boko haram days are numbered
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said the Federal Government was determined to liberate all territories occupied by Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East. Jonathan gave the assurance at the launch of the Presidential Initiative for the North-East (PINE) in Maiduguri. Represented by Alhaji Mohammed Wakil, the Minister of State for Power, Jonathan said government was [...]
SaharaReporters denies receiving $5M house bribe from APC
In response to the reports making round the web of alleged $5million mansion bribe from APC to the owners on SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore the founder of the online news website has reacted, describing president Goodluck Jonathan and PDP as cheap blackmailers. Read below! In the latest of many attempts at blackmailing SaharaReporters into silence, a new (what else?) website [...]
Burkina Faso constitution restored – Army
Burkina Faso's military has said that the country's constitution, which was suspended by the army after President Blaise Compaore was toppled after mass protests last month, has been restored. Saturday's announcement was made a day after the West African country's military reached an agreement with opposition parties and civil groups on the formation of a transitional [...]
‘I Didn’t Steal While In Office’, Former Education Minister Says
Former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has come to lay it bare that she was not among those to be looked at as those who used their positions while in the office to embezzle public funds. She said that she is not among the class of public office holders who embezzle money while in office. Dr. Ezekwesili stated this while saying that even as a Minister, [...]
The New York Nanny says sorry for killing two children
NEW YORK — The New York nanny accused of killing two children in the bathtub of their home said she was sorry for what she had done, according to court papers Friday. Yoselyn Ortega, 52, has pleaded not guilty to killing 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim on Oct. 25, 2012, in a bathroom while their mother was out picking up her third child from a swimming [...]
Bomb Blast Rocks Kano, Many Feared Dead
A bomb has exploded in Kano on Friday evening as people were rushing home after the day’s activities. The explosion which occurred along Maiduguri road opposite NNPC filling station in Hotoro area of Kano killed unspecified number of people and injured several others. Resident of the area said they heard a loud explosion which shook many buildings in the area. A combined team [...]
Crime rises in Duval County, report says
The report shows numbers continue to fall across the state but that's not the case for Duval County, where numbers are on the rise. According to the 2014 Semi-Annual Uniform Crime Report there have been nearly 1,000 more crimes committed in Duval County compared to last year. Beverly McClain is the founder of Families for Slain Children. McClain said she's not surprised by [...]
Facebook to cut unpaid posts by marketers on News Feeds
Facebook’s executives are not terribly worried about upsetting people these days. Flush with profits and a high stock price, Facebook recently shocked investors by saying that it planned to spend billions of dollars on projects that might never generate any profits. And on Friday, the company told marketers that if they really wanted to reach their customers on Facebook, they [...]
Depressed mum killed her three kids
A mother smothered her disabled twin sons with a nappy before killing their older sister and then tried to kill herself while suffering from depression, a court has heard. Tania Clarence, 43, has admitted responsibility for the deaths of Olivia, four, and three-year-olds Ben and Max at their home in New Malden, southwest London, during the Easter holidays. She was excused from [...]
Court sentence man to 11 years for producing fake wine
The Federal High Court, Port Harcourt has sentenced one Sunday Okeke to 11 years in imprisonment for producing adulterated and fake NAFDAC regulated alcoholic beverages in contravention of section 1 of Drugs and Regulated Products (Registration etc) Act of 1993 as amended and punishable under section 6 (1) of the same Act. Okeke, who was residing in Rumumasi, Port Harcourt was [...]
Bomb blast in Kano killed many and injured several others
A bomb exploded this evening in Kano killing several and others injured. The explosion which occurred this evening where people were about closing activities for the day. The bomb went off near NNPC filling station along maiduguri road in the area of Hotoro in Kano. Out of the seven dead victims, three are said to be policemen who were guarding the facility at the time of [...]
N25bn Fraud: Igbinedion’s case adjourned till January 30
A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State today reserved ruling in the N25billion money laundering and abuse of office charge brought against Micheal Igbinedion and Charles Eboigbodin by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for January 30, 2015. adjourned Justice J. Liman on Friday November 14, 2014, fixed the January 30 date for judgement after the [...]
EFCC arraigns prison accountant for N83m fraud
(Sahara Reporters) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, November 14, 2014 arraigned one Mrs Akon Esu-Nte (Alias Imaobong Akon Esu-Nte), an accountant with the Nigeria Prison Service, before Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of the FCT High Court, Apo, Abuja, on a 6-count charge bordering on fraud, stealing and abuse of office. Esu-Nte pleaded not guilty when [...]
A woman found python in her kitchen
Lagos- Wednesday night was quite an unusual one for people living at Baile street Alpha Beach. It was not strange to see snakes in environs with bushes, but this was far more than usual. The woman, Sarah, told Constative news that her sister went into the kitchen only to discover an unusual movement, when she looked intently, it was a snake, not just a snake but a mighty [...]
Boko Haram, APC’S exploitative propoganda
(Vanguard) THE leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, must have celebrated when a suicide bomber blew himself up and killed 47 students at the assembly ground of the Government Senior Science Secondary School in Potiskum, Yobe State, on Monday, November 10, 2014. Lai Mohammed, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, must have been dizzy with joy on receiving [...]
Trial drug for Ebola to be available in west Africa next month
(CNN) -- Clinical trials of experimental Ebola treatment will start next month in West Africa as the regional death toll from the deadly virus surpasses 5,000. Doctors Without Borders will conduct trials at three treatment centers in Guinea and Liberia, the medical aid agency announced Thursday. One trial will treat infected patients with the antiviral drug brincidofovir at a [...]
Tanker- Lorry collision leaves 14 dead 14 others injured
ILORIN — It was a tragic Wednesday when a tanker and a lorry collided, leaving 14 people dead and 14 others seriously injured. The victims of the collision were burnt beyond recognition. According to Vanguard, the tanker was fully loaded with petroleum product when the collision happened. It was gathered that the truck loaded with cattle and passengers was said to be coming [...]
UNILAG lecturers protest poor conditions of service
UNILAG lecturers protested yesterday to what they call "poor of conditions of service by the school management. The members of the Academic staff union of university(ASUU) university of Lagos chapter lecturers started the protest around 8:30am in the morning yesterday moving from faculty to faculty displaying placard bearing their grievance and were singing solidarity songs in [...]
Human Right Abuse: IG reads riot act to the Nigerian Police
The inspector General of police, Suileiman Abba has warned men of the Nigerian police to exercise consciousness toward the rights of the Nigerian public. He sounded the warning from the force head quarters at Abuja on Wednesday while launching The Human Rights Manuals for Police men and human right desk officers. The manual was presented by the help of Cleen foundation, the [...]
Behold! The new N100 note
The centenary celebration has given room for the upgrade of our currency notes, this time N100 note takes it's turn. President Goodluck Jonathan, today, unveiled the N100 note in Abuja, which is said to be commanding certain elegant features. The security features which includes, windowed micro-optics, spark features and smart phones as identity and security tool for [...]