Category: News
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Court Sentenced LASU Student To 21 Years Imprisonment For Raping Fellow Students, Armed Robbery
📸 The Whistler
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Nnamdi Kanu’s Brother, Others React To His Arrest
From Okey Sampson, Umuahia The family of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has reacted to his arrest, warning the Federal Government to be care in what they do with his brother. Speaking with Daily Sun at their home in Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State, the younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu…
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SCOAN Announces Burial Plan For TB Joshua
The Synagogue Church of All Nation (SCOAN) has announced July 9 as the burial date of its founder, T.B. Joshua. An international member of the church Gary Tonge made this known while addressing newsmen in Lagos on the programmes for the burial of the prophet. According to him, July 5 to July 11 is dedicated…
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Court Orders Detention of IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu
Justice Binta Murtala Nyako has ordered the detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in DSS custody. This followed the rearrest and arraignment of Kanu in the court on Tuesday. Nyako ordered the DSS to inform Kanu’s lawyers of his detention and adjourned the case to July 26,…
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Court Sentenced Former South African President To Jail
South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma, has been handed a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court. The country’s constitution court imposed the sentence on Tuesday for defying an order to appear at a corruption inquiry. The disgraced former president failed to appear at the inquiry led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in February.…
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FG Approves New Deadline for NIN-SIM Data Verification
The Federal Government has approved extension of deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to July 26, 2021. The government said the decision to extend the deadline was reached after a request by stakeholders on the needs to consolidate enrolment and NIN-SIM verification process. It added the development followed the rapid increase in the number of enrolment…
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Corps Members Land in Hospital, After Robbers Invade Lodge, Cart Away N130,000, Phones, Laptops
Corpers’ Lodge Illustrative Picture
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One Year After UI Student Crushed To Death in Ibadan, FG Recieves Panel Report
Almost a year after soap-making machine crushed a 300-level Student of University of Ibadan to death, Gbadebo Richard, Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate his death has submitted its report to the Federal Government. The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo, received the report on behalf of the Federal Government…
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Insecurity: NANS Leadership Meets Sheikh Gummi
The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has met with controversial Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, to seek commitment on how to end school abduction in the country. The delegation expressed worries over the persistent abduction of students in Kaduna, Niger, Katsina, Zamfara and other northern states in recent times, describing the…
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Super TV CEO Was ‘Tortured’ To Death, Family Source
The death of billionaire, and former Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, has taken another twist as his family claims that he was tortured before his death. Ataga was reportedly stabbed to death by one Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300 level student of the University of Lagos, last week, in the Lekki area…