The federal ministry of power has been ordered by a high court sitting in Minna, Niger state’s capital, to pay N1.1 trillion as compensation to Samboro community in Madaka district, Rafi LGA over damages caused by the construction of Zungeru hydro dam. Justice Mohammed .A. Mohammed delivered the judgement in a lawsuit marked NSHC/ Kut/6/2023…
Adamawa state – 42-year-old Auwalu Shuaibu has been arrested by the police for mistakenly assaulting his 9-year-old daughter in Adamawa state. The state police spokesman, SP Suleiman Ngurore, confirmed that Auwalu was arrested on Monday, March 11 after he confessed that he believed her daughter to be his wife Drunken father mistakes 9-year-old daughter for…
French President, Emmanuel Macron has declared his nation ‘ready’ to use nuclear weapons after Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened about using nukes. Speaking with French media on Thursday, Macron slammed Putin for threatening the use of nuclear devices and reminded him France also has an advanced weapons programme. It comes after the Russian President earlier…
A landlord in Bulawayo’s North End suburb of Zimbabwe has been arrested for allegedly exposing his manhood to a tenant as she was dressing up in her room. It was gathered that while the 25-year-old woman got dressed, her landlord identified as 24-year-old Shayne Mafoche reportedly peered through her window. Startled, the woman caught sight…
A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Myglor Yambuya was handed the sentenced after he was convicted of stabbing 16-year-old Renell Charles to death in London. Yambuya of Libra Road, Plaistow, London was sentenced to life imprisonment to serve a minimum term of 20 years, having been convicted of the murder at the…
The late monarch, who reigned for two years, joined his ancestors at the age of 81 on Thursday. The remains of the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Mohood Olalekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, were on Friday evening laid to rest at his Aliwo ancestral family home in Ibadan, Oyo State. The late monarch, who reigned…
Says the appointment of Transaction Advisers by the DMO is done in accordance with the provisions of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 and is subject to the approval of the Federal Executive Council. The Debt Management Office (DMO) has debunked claims that the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun’s company…
Dear Nigerians, do you know Houthi rebels are the reason you had a poor internet network today? Walk with me as I explain. Before now, a lot of Nigerians probably might not have heard about the Houthi rebels, a ragtag militia, and a religious terrorist group from Yemen. Even though the majority of Nigerians have…
Lady asks Nigerian government to ban DNA test for mental health as her neighbor finds out he is not the father of his two grown daughters he trained to university. The lady took to her Twitter page, @BeniNitq, where she revealed the incidents that occurred in her residential neighborhood. She claimed the father had carried…
It was a shocking and disturbing story that captured the attention of many on social media. A family in Kenya had stayed with a corpse for three weeks with believed that the dead mother would come back to life after prayers. Boniface Mungai, a driver and the son of the lady who was dead shared…
The Public and Private Development Centre, PPDC, and the Incorporated Trustees of the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy had in a separate suit dragged the CBB, and its chairman before a Federal Capital Territory High Court for their refusal to honour a Freedom of Information, FOI, initiative demanding the asset declaration forms of…
MainOne, one of the undersea cable companies affected by service disruptions due to multiple cable cuts, has said it might take between two and three weeks to fix the damaged portions of the cable. In a note shared with Newsmen on Friday, the cable company said some form of seismic activity on the seabed resulted…
