Three teenagers, Suleiman Abdullahi, 17, Ibrahim Sule, 17 and Sani Dahiru, 18 were yesterday arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada for alleged false claim of manhood disappearance. The police prosecutor, Martha Paul, tol...
A restaurateur and mother of 15-year old girl has told a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Karu how the pastor of a church she attends serially had carnal knowledge of her daughter, impregnating her and aborting the pregnancy. According to her, the pas...
Thirteen Chief Superintendents of Police who were found worthy of promotion have been elevated to the rank of Assistant Commissioners of Police, ACPs by the Police Service Commission, PSC. The PSC which made this known in a statement signed yesterday&n...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in Edo said it had taken delivery of a seized truck with unregistered pharmaceutical products. NAFDAC said that the imported drugs were without the agency’s registrat...
Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has assured the Oko community in the state that his administration would build embankments on the shoreline of communities living on the bank of the River Niger. Uduaghan gave the assurance Wednesday in Asaba when m...
The Senate on Wednesday in Abuja condemned the Adamawa killings and urged the Federal Government to expeditiously apprehend the perpetrators of the act and bring them to book. The Senate took these decisions following a debate on matter brought t...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the appointment of its Group General Manager, NNPC Greenfield Refineries, Mr Adebayo Ibirogba, as the Vice President, World Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association (WLPGA), is a welcome development. A...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday gave an interim order granting Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) possession of Ibafon Oil Tank Farm, pending determination of a substantive suit before it. Justice Okon Abang also ordered the Pet...
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Wednesday set January 2013 as deadline for states that have not implemented the new Teachers’ Salary Structure (TSS) to begin payment or face industrial disputes. The National President of the Union, Mr Mich...
The US State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs has announced the commencement of the 2014 Diversity Visa program (DV-2014). According to the information obtained by our Correspondent, the entry submission period for the program which started ...
Naija Worldwide Charities, Inc., a US-based charitable organization dedicated to rebuilding lives worldwide through health and education, and in collaboration with Global Women-Africa Network (GLOW), a grassroots alliance of women from across Africa an...
A lesbian couple from Austria challenged their country's ban on same-sex adoptions to the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday. The couple argued that the refusal by an Austrian court to allow one of the women to adopt the son o...
Seven crew members involved in the Hong Kong ferry collision that killed 38 people were released on bail, police said on Wednesday. They were arrested on suspicion of endangering lives at sea after Hong Kong’s worst maritime disaster in 40 years....
Joshua Kevin Oribello, a 22 year Nigerian man has been sentenced yesterday in federal district court in Detroit following a guilty plea to drug and firearms offenses, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. McQuade was joined in the announ...
Mrs Lilian Nwanne, the Public Enlightenment Officer of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), on Wednesday, advised motorists to comply with traffic rules to avoid accidents on the highways. Nwanne told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interv...