A Sharia Court Judge (names withheld) at Kateregi Village, in Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State is now in trouble over an allegation of abducting a 25- year-old accused, standing trial in his court. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the victim, Mallama Hadiza Hajara Umar, was ordered to be remanded in Minna prison custody by […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, have arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Obivuko Ifeanyi, with 210grams of substances that tested positive for cocaine. Obivuko, who inserted the drugs into his anus, was detected with the aid of a body scanner during the inward clearance […]
PETRAS Lescinskas, who was arrested during the Lithuania-Nigeria match, has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated offence. The Lithuanian man who gave a Nazi salute during an Olympic basketball match has become the first person to be convicted of a racially aggravated offence at the Games and fined £2,500. He was told that his behaviour and […]
THE United States (US) embassy in Abuja has lifted the restrictions on US citizens not to visit establishments identified as potential targets. A security message entitled: “The US Mission in Nigeria issues this emergency message to update US citizens on the current threat situation in Nigeria”, signed by Carol A. Cox, Consular Section chief, said […]
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, visited the National Energy Skills Centre (NESC) at Point Lisas, Couva in Trinidad and Tobago, in continuation of his three-day state visit to the Caribbean nation. The centre is currently training no fewer than 70 Niger Delta youths in heavy equipment operations, crane operations, metal arc welding, industrial mechanical maintenance […]
THERE are strong indications that members of the House of Representatives have abandoned the summons to President Goodluck Jonathan to appear before them to address the worsening insecurity in the country. Five weeks after the June 19 resolution by the House to summon the President, The PUNCH found out on Thursday that there had been […]
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday, tried to douse the controversy set off by the implementation of the budget by the Goodluck Jonathan administration. Okonjo-Iweala spoke at the Senate when she appeared before the special joint committee on the performance of the 2012 budget. Asked if the country was broke, she said, […]
*Says he has previous criminal records By ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH, ONOZURE DANIA & MICHAEL OLADEPO LAGOS – An Ikeja High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to one of the oil marketers, Oluwaseun Ogunbanbo who is being prosecuted alongside others on the ground of his previous criminal records even as others were admitted to bail. Ogunbambo, […]
Abuja – Taxpayers in Nigeria are now entitled to a Consolidated Relief Allowance (CRA) of N200,000, a top official of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has said. Mr Samuel Ogungbesan, Coordinating Director, Field Operations of FIRS, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a workshop organised for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on the […]
Ikeja – Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Thursday in Ikeja signed the Lagos State Road Traffic Bill into law. The governor assented to the bill at a ceremony attended by members of the executive council, top officials of the police and those of other traffic management agencies. Fashola said the new law was […]
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