Ekiti Police Arrest Five Kidnap Suspects Following Kidnap Of Two Monarchs, School Pupils, Teachers, Driver The suspects claimed to be herdsmen during interrogation, but it was later discovered that none of them has a cattle and no cattle was found with them in the forest where they were arrested. Police […]
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35-yr-old Man Remanded For Allegedly Raping 50-year-old Colleague To Death
35-yr-old Man Remanded For Allegedly Raping 50-year-old Colleague To Death Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure, on Tuesday, remanded one James Emmanuel, for allegedly raping a 55-year-old woman, Mrs Deborah Abiodun, to death. The State Police Command arrested the 35-year-old man for allegedly killing the woman who was […]
Student Stabs Girlfriend To Death For Seizing His Phone
Student Stabs Girlfriend To Death For Seizing His Phone Ogun State Police have arrested one Adebayo Adeyemi for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend and schoolmate identified as Mercy, to death for allegedly seizing his phone after accusing him […]
Group To Plant Over Five Million Economic, Medicinal Trees In Ogun To Combat Climate Change
Group To Plant Over Five Million Economic, Medicinal Trees In Ogun To Combat Climate Change The African Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge Research and Development Project has concluded arrangements to plant over five million economic and medicinal trees across the state. The President General of the Project, Chief Shuaib Aro, disclosed […]
IMF downgrades Nigeria’s economic growth projection for 2024
Report has it that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its forecast for Nigeria’s economic growth for 2024 from 3.1% declared in October to 3.0 representing a 0.1% decline. The fund stated this in its revised World Economic Outlook for 2024 and 2025. According to the report, Sub-Saharan Africa’s […]
Senate Summons Security Chiefs Over Rising Obscurity in The Country
The Senate has taken decisive action in response to the escalating security challenges facing Nigeria. Senate President Godswill Akpabio has announced that security chiefs have been summoned to an interactive session next week to address the surge in criminal activities across the nation. The summoned service chiefs include Chief of […]
Nigeria Sees Progress in the Fight Against Corruption
Nigeria sees progress in the fight against corruption according to the latest report from Transparency International. Nigeria has climbed five places in the Corruption Perceptions Index for the year 2023, as disclosed by Transparency International on their official website. The country now stands at 145th out of 180 nations and […]
Nigerian Government Launches National Minimum Wage Committee
President Bola Tinubu has initiated plans for a comprehensive review of the current national minimum wage, aiming to increase it beyond the existing N30,000 threshold. The committee, comprising representatives from the Federal Government, state governments, labor unions, and the private sector, was inaugurated by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the […]
Pope Says Everyone will gradually accept blessings for same-sex couples.
Pope Francis has expressed confidence that those who criticise his decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples will come to understand it over time, except for Africans, whom he referred to as a “special case.” Reuters reports that Pope Francis stated that Africans perceive homosexuality negatively from a cultural perspective […]
Umahi Orders Arrest Of Traders On Aba Axis Of Enugu-Port Harcourt Road.
The Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi said that the traders on the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, which is still undergoing rehabilitation, risk jail as he ordered the arrest of persons trading on the completed section of the Aba axis of the road. Expressing his disappointment over the activities of the […]