Now, it is official: former governor of Oyo State, Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, Senate Deputy Chief Whip, who was Commissioner for Local Government under Alao-Akala, Hosea Agboola, and an engineer, Femi Babalola (a.k.a. Jogor), have a case to answer. Before an Ibadan High Court where they were arraigned yesterday, the EFCC preferred 11 charges of gross […]
Over 100 women from Ogbaozalla and Ibeku communities in Opi, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State on Tuesday protested against the rape of old women by young men in their community. The perpetrators, aged between 17 and 25 years, had recently been caught raping old women of 60 to 80 years, including blind women […]
BlackBerry smartphone users in Nigeria on Tuesday bemoaned the continued disruption of services, which began on Monday in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. By Tuesday, the disruption in services had extended to Brazil, Chile and Argentina, with users unable to connect the Internet or use messaging services. A banker in Alausa, Lagos, Mr. Leke […]
The State Security Service on Tuesday confirmed that it had arrested a banker ally of leader of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, Mr. Henry Okah, for allegedly coordinating the finances of the nation’s 50th Independence Day bombings in Abuja on October 1, 2010. Okah and his younger brother, Charles Okah, as well as […]
Indications emerged on Tuesday that the Nigerian Governors’ Forum was poised for a showdown with President Goodluck Jonathan over issues like the constitutional amendments, the Sovereign Wealth Fund and the Excess Crude Account. THE PUNCH learnt that the governors at their meeting in Abuja on Tuesday resolved to mobilise their state houses of assembly to […]
Eleven people, including two school children, were reportedly killed in multiple accidents on Tuesday. Also, 16 others were said to have sustained varying degrees of injuries in separate locations in Ibadan. An accident was reported to have occurred along Ibadan-Ife Road around 2:47am while the second one was reported at Boluwaji area along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway […]
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, has reshuffled some senior officials in the Federal Capital Territory Administration with the appointment of Dr. Musa Musa as the new Group Managing Director of the Abuja Investment Company Limited. The new group managing director until Tuesday was the Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister […]
he naira strengthened on Tuesday, gaining 3.4 per cent at the inter-bank market a day after an aggressive interest rate hike by the Central Bank of Nigeria designed to shore up the value of the currency. The naira opened at N158.60 against the dollar at the inter-bank market, representing an increase of 3.4 per […]
A former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, was on Tuesday arraigned at the State High Court, Ibadan, accused of misappropriation of state funds, concealment and fraud. Alao-Akala, slammed with 11 counts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was arraigned before Justice Mashood Abass, with his former Commissioner for Local Government, who is […]
AS Nigerians continue to grit their teeth in agony over the missing out on the African Cup of Nations to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea next year, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has finally agreed on how to solve the puzzle on whether to sack or retain coach Samson Siasia. The Super Eagles […]
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