Military Commences Payment Of Retired Servicemen Allowance
The Military Pensions Board said it has commenced the payment of the owed Security Debarment Allowance to eligible military retirees or Next of Kin of deceased military personnel. A Security Debarment Allowance is the money paid to retired military personnel to discourage them from using the skills they acquired while in service against the government. Over 90,000 military retirees who retired...
Do Not Vote For Someone That Will Fight Bandits Come 2023 – Sheik Gumi
In a leaked video, the Sheik Gumi was captured urging voters not to vote for leaders that will fight bandits come 2023. Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a contentious Islamic cleric, has cautioned Muslims against voting for candidates in the 2023 elections who he described as "our people" but who will "fight bandits." The well-known Islamic scholar advised his congregation in a sermon...
NAF Loses Two Officers In Kwara
The Nigerian Air force lost 2 officers in Ilorin when a trailer driver lost control and crashed the trailer into two officers of the @NigAirForce (NAF), crushing them to death. The incident, which happened on Wednesday near the Pasa Bridge in Eyenkorin, about 200 meters from the NAF base, raised tensions between the locals and Air Force personnel. The truck approached...
5 Police Officers Detained For Extorting Fees From Student
The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of five policemen over the extortion of a student, identified simply as Ibrahim, along the RCC, Old Ogbomoso Road, Oyo State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, who confirmed the development to our correspondent on Wednesday, said the investigation was ongoing. He said, “We have arrested and detained five policemen...
West Ham Co-Chairman, Dies At Age 86
West Ham’s co-chairman David Gold has died at the age of 86 following a short illness, the Premier League club announced on Wednesday. Gold was a lifelong Hammer, having grown up opposite the club’s former Boleyn Ground Upton home in east London before playing for West Ham’s boys’ team as a teenager. In January 2010 he fulfilled a dream by becoming...
Lawyers Seeking SAN Rank To Pay N1m
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee has opened invitations for lawyers to apply for the 2023 award for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria at N1m, per applicant. The LPPC, in a notice issued by its Secretary/Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hajo Bello, stated that the purchase of the application which began on January 1, will end on March...
Abducted Son Of Murdered Couple Found Dead In Ogun River
Corpse of Oreoluwa Fatinoye, son of the couple allegedly assassinated on the New Year day in Abeokuta, Ogun State, has been recovered from a river. The deceased was reportedly murdered & thrown into a river along the Adigbe – Obada road in Abeokuta, after he was kidnapped by the assailants who murdered his parents. The couple, Kehinde & Bukola Fatinoye reportedly...
Vehicles Impounded By Abia Traffic Agency Gutted By Fire
Over 10 vehicles parked at the premises of the Traffic and Indiscipline Management Agency of Abia State, TIMAAS, located along Obikabia road, Ogbor Hill, Aba, have been gutted by fire. This came a few days after Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu had directed the traffic agency to release all vehicles being detained at the yard on or before December 30, 2022. The affected...
Man Who Stabbed Stepmother To Death In Kano To Die By Hanging
Kano High Court yesterday sentenced one Sagiru Abdullahi, 29, to death by hanging for stabbing his stepmother Zainab Dan’azumi, 55, to death. The court had earlier convicted Abdullahi on a one-count charge of culpable homicide. Presiding Justice Aisha Mahmoud held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced the convict to death. Prosecution counsel, Mr Tijjani Ibrahim, had earlier...
Buhari “Deeply Saddened” Over Ohanaeze Ndigbo President’s Death
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said he was “deeply saddened” by the passing of Professor George Obiozor, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, worldwide. The President, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, condoled with Obiozor’s family, the government and the people of Imo State as well as Ndigbo, at home and in the Diaspora. Buhari, who described his...
