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Girl, 11, gang-raped to death in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, October 3rd, 2020

By Evelyn Usman An 11-year old girl, Favour Okechukwu, was gang-raped to death in Ejigbo area of Lagos with the perpetrators on the run. The deceased, a Junior Secondary School 3 student was sent on an errand by her mother, by 3 p.m. She was said to have been lured into a building on Olarewaju […]

Updated: Trump, First Lady go into quarantine after positive corona virus tests

Posted by admin American Politics, COVID-19, Headlines, Health, NNP News Thursday, October 1st, 2020

(NNP) U.S president Donald J. Trump and the First Lady, Melania Trump, have been confirmed to have the corona virus after tests results came back positive. On Thursday evening, the president tweeted that he and the First Lady have started the process of self-isolation after a close aide, Hope Hicks, tested positive for the corona […]

Dear Bunmi, my aunty’s husband is too demanding

Posted by admin Headlines, Sex and Relationship Thursday, October 1st, 2020

My aunty’s husband is too demanding Dear Bunmi, I am currently studying to be a trained teacher at a college of education. My parents are not very well off, so my aunty agreed that I stay with her, as her house is very close to the college. Not long after I moved in with her, […]

Shamed: First Bank staff Oreoluwa Adesakin jailed for stealing N49m

Posted by admin Corruption Politics, EFCC Politics, Headlines Thursday, October 1st, 2020

A busted staff of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, has been convicted for fraud and handed a total term of 98 years in prison by Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court. But she will spend just seven years in jail. Adesakin was found to have committed financial fraud against First […]

Community sponsors repatriation of 43 Nigerian women stranded in Lebanon

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, October 1st, 2020

The Lebanese community in Nigeria has sponsored the repatriation of 43 Nigerian women stranded in their country, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The women landed at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 2 pm on Sunday, aboard Middle East Airlines aircraft with registration number OD-MEA/sub. Mr Philip Wehbe, Public Relations Officer of the […]

Landlord sets tenant ablaze over N11,000 rent in Calabar

Posted by admin Cross River, Headlines, State News Monday, September 28th, 2020

By Emma Una A landlord on Wednesday doused the room of one of his tenants with petrol and set it on fire, burning her to death over nonpayment of eleven thousand naira rent. The incident took place at No 9, Ansa Ewa Street, Cobham Town in the Bayside area of the city when the landlord […]

Former Mali foreign minister Moctar Ouane named transitional premier

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 27th, 2020

Former Malian foreign minister Moctar Ouane has been named prime minister by the country’s interim president Bah Ndaw, state television announced Sunday. Ouane, 64, served as foreign minister between 2004 and 2011 during Amadou Toumani Toure’s presidency. The members of the new PM’s government will be unveiled Tuesday, an officer from the military junta in […]

United Nations: Forging ahead at 75

Posted by admin Headlines, United Nations Sunday, September 27th, 2020

WHERE would the world be today without the United Nations, UN? Even though the UN is often derided as having failed the expectations of many, the world would definitely have been a much poorer place if we did not have the benefit of the moderating effects of this noble global organisation. The UN has been […]

Breaking: Again Boko Haram attacks Borno Governor’s convoy

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Sunday, September 27th, 2020

BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI Barely 48 hours when some members of dreaded Boko Haram ambushed convoy of Governor Babagana Umara Zulum along Cross Kauwa-Baga road in Borno state leaving over 30 people dead including 10 policemen and 4 soldiers, another set of insurgents laid ambush along Monguno- Maiduguri axis and attacked the returning convoy on […]

Opinion: Beyond APC’s Defeat in Edo

Posted by admin All Peoples' Congress (APC), Edo, Headlines, State News, Uncategorized Sunday, September 27th, 2020

The truth about penultimate Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State is that APC defeated APC, writes Olawale Olaleye One of the instructive takeaways from penultimate Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State was putting a lie to the age-long prism that all politics is local. In the just concluded governorship election in Edo State, the […]