Metro
31 May 2023
Benue State governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia, has announced three more appointments after assuming office. This is contained in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Tersoo Kula,on Wednesday. Kula announced that Governor Alia had appointed Prof. Joseph Alakali as Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and Paul Biam as Chief of Staff…
31 May 2023
Justice Rahman Oshodi of a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, yesterday, sentenced 42-year-old Suleimon Usman to life imprisonment for defiling his daughter.
31 May 2023
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, yesterday, sentenced the owner of Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin, to death by hanging for murder of Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
31 May 2023
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested members of a syndicate involved in the illicit importation and trafficking of lethal synthetic opioid, Fentanyl.
31 May 2023
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), yesterday, urged the newly inaugurated President Bola Tinubu to reorganise the nation’s security architecture and release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
31 May 2023
For allegedly parading himself as a member of a chieftaincy family with an intent to be crowned the “Baale” of Alimosho town, the police, yesterday, arraigned a 52-year-old man, Abiodun Ejigbadero, before a Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos.
31 May 2023
Major motor parks in Ibadan the capital of Oyo State, including two Bus Terminus at Ojoo and Challenge, were shut down, yesterday, on the directives of Governor Seyi Makinde.
31 May 2023
Four persons were reportedly killed on Monday night, with two of them beheaded by gunmen who invaded Rundele community in Emohua Local Council of Rivers State.
31 May 2023
Igbokoda community, headquarters of Ilaje Local Council of Ondo State, has been engulfed in tension, following sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl by a middle-aged man.
31 May 2023
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of a Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday, remanded seven men in custody of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS), for alleged diversion and stealing of equipment meant for the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP).
31 May 2023
The hearing of the alleged N3 billion fraud charge brought against Ali Bello and three others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been adjourned to 17th and 18th of July 2023, for continuation of trial.
31 May 2023
AnAbuja-based legal practitioner and rights activist, Silas Joseph Onu, has called on the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba Alkali, to respect the judgement of the court and vacate office as ordered by the court.