The Police Command in Lagos State says a day-old female baby has been found dumped near a septic tank on Gowon Estate, Ipaja.
Author: Abdulfatai Ayobami
Veteran Nollywood actress, Cynthia Okereke has died. Her death was announced by her colleague, Joseph Okechukwu, in a post on his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday. Okechukwu wrote, “REST IN PEACE, Nwanyi oma. I’m shattered beyond words. The fact that I was about to pay for your flight ticket to come to finish what we started only to hear you went to be with Lord just last night is one of the toughest things I’ve ever had to deal with in recent times. READ ALSO: · Bricklayer bags nine months imprisonment for stealing cable · NEMA receives 146 stranded Nigerians…
A Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court Abuja, on Wednesday, sentenced a bricklayer, Yusuf Salihu
The Police on Wednesday arraigned a 27-year-old sales representative, Happiness Robson, in Lagos State, for allegedly stealing N303,730 from her employer. Robson, who resides at Oworonshoki, Lagos State, is charged with stealing. She, however, pleaded not guilty to the one count before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court. READ ALSO: · Tinubu writes Reps, seeks approval of N500b for palliatives · FIFA ban Ronaldo’s Al Nassr over Leicester City deal for Ahmed Musa · Drama in court as complainant bursts into tears, begs on behalf of convict The prosecutor, Insp Donjor Perezi, had told the court that Robson committed the offence…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has written to the House of Representatives
Rangers new boy Cyriel Dessers admits he’s desperate to wipe away his European heartache at Ibrox. The new Nigerian ace was part of the Feyenoord side that fought its way through to the final of the inaugural Conference League in 2021. But there was only trauma in Tirana as his Dutch side were edged out by Jose Mourinho’s Roma side. Dessers said: “If you’ve been to the final and get that close to winning a really big trophy then it hurts. But it makes your hunger also even bigger to finally lift a really big trophy. “To do that at…
Oswald Agwu One of the key areas of intervention of the USAID-funded Integrated Health Programme in Ebonyi State is the reduction in the rate of maternal, child and newborn mortality and morbidity. To efficiently and effectively achieve this entails deliberate strategy to increase women’s patronage of health facilities with professional personnel rather than untrained, non professional traditional quacks and birth attendants. Before now, attendance of pregnant women and nursing mothers to health facilities for antenatal and postnatal care were very poor in most parts of Ebonyi State. That accounted for the high rate of maternal and child mortality, resulting from…
The Senate has agreed to investigate oil subsidies and under recovery regime operated by the Federal Government
Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis has claimed that neither Chelsea nor Manchester United
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet stated the duties a former Vice President of Nigeria
A former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to link voters’ register
Kano-Jigawa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has collected over N18.8 billion
Two suspected kidnappers have been killed after they attempted to kidnap a victim, Busari Azeez, in Ogun State.
One of Nigeria’s top female basketball players, Oderah Chidom, has announced that she is quitting the female national team, D’Tigress.
One of Nigeria’s all round artists, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, on Tuesday set Twitter abuzz when he posted what has been described as a photoshopped photograph
Juliana Francis The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, has bared his fangs and claws to criminals in the state today. The CP gave them the options of forsaking their criminal ways, leaving the state or be ready to be battled to death. The number one policeman in the state, who has shown that he was not in town for a tea party, but war against criminals, made a show of his latest conquests, which included the arrest of suspected cultists, killing of kidnappers and rescuing of a defilement victim from the sexual clutches of his father and his…
The Acting Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Ayedatiwa, has said that the State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, is in high spirits despite his ill health. The Acting Governor spoke in a statement on Tuesday following reports that the Akeredolu was completely indisposed. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abduallhi Adamu, was reportedly quoted out of context as saying that the Governor was not in good health at all. This led to apprehension among the people of the state. But Ayedatiwa, who said there won’t be a gap in governance in the absence Akeredolu, urged Nigerians to “ignore these unfortunate…
Buoyed by the pertinent need to further amplify and extrapolate United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres’ summation that: “Investing in girls, is investing in our common future,” the Abiodun Oshinibosi-led Abelinis Limited has come up with a not-for-profit project called: “The Girl Child Matrix.” The project, according to him, was triggered by the need to offer the girl child, who in most cases is usually left disadvantaged, a better chance and opportunity to excel in all fields of human endeavour. Planned to coincide with the International Day of the Girl Child, which is October 11 of every year, and as declared…
No fewer than 12 suspected oil thieves have been arrested by the Nigeria Army for allegedly breaking and siphoning crude oil from a pipeline in Rivers. The suspects were arrested alongside an unspecified quantity of crude oil stored in paraffin bags, motorcycles, wheelbarrows and jerrycans. The Commander 6 Division Garrison, Nigeria Army, Port HarcourtBrig.-Gen. Eddy Effiong, briefed newsmen on the arrest of the suspects in Port Harcourt Tuesday. He said the suspects were arrested on July 2 and July 3 by troops on routine patrol of both coastal and land communities in the state. “The 12 suspects were arrested by…
The Spokesman of the World Bishops’ Council, Africa, Bishop Seun Adeoye, has accused the Executive Director of the Muslim Rights Council, Professor Ishaq Akintola, of making clandestine moves to cause religious mayhem in Osun State