Midnight fire guts Delta State University hostel
A midnight fire, on Friday, gutted a two-storey Post-Graduate Hostel in Campus Three of the Delta State University, Abraka in Ethiope East Council Area of the state. It was learnt that the fire started about 1:04 am, destroying about 10 rooms before help arrived. But there was no casualty recorded in the inferno. It was gathered that the parts of the hostel...
I spend over $2m on charity monthly — Father Mbaka
THE founder and director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, AMEN, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka said he spends over $2 million monthly for various charity works he embarks on. Mbaka disclosed this shortly after presenting N18.8 million to the management of Annunciation Specialist Hospital, Emene, Enugu, on behalf of Multi-Life Savers for the Less Privileged, a non-governmental arm of his ministry. He...
COVID-19: Buhari Bans Inter-state Travel
The President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, says non-essential inter-state travel within the country is banned till further notice as part of measures to curb the spread of the pandemic. ABN TV had reported that the Nigeria Governors’ Forum appealed to the President to include its resolution on the restriction of interstate movement in his next address to the nation. Buhari made the...
PHOTOS: Man Rapes 3-Year-Old Daughter While Wife Was In Labour Room In Anambra
A forty-three-year-old man from Ikeduru- Ogwah, Mbaitolu Local Government Area of Imo state, Mr Ikechukwu Ekenta allegedly raped his daughter, Kamsiyochukwu Ekenta who is three years and ten months old. ABS gathered that the girl was defiled on the 28th of April 2020. when her mother put to bed. Narrating her ordeal, little Kamsimyochukwu said her daddy put his ‘komkom’ (Penis)...
Man In Jail For 6 Years Without Trial After He Was Arrested While Charging His Laptop
A Twitter user has raised the alarm of a Nigerian man still being kept in prison for 6 years without trial after he was "wrongfully" arrested while charging his laptop at his neighbour's house. @hausa_girl who identified the Nigerian man as "Junior" said the criminal the police arrested during a raid at the apartment confirmed Junior was innocent, but they...
Atiku, Family Under Close Watch Over Alleged Fraud
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency of the U.S. Department of Treasury, Tuesday placed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his family members under close watch over alleged financial fraud. Disclosing this Premium Times unravelled new findings by FinCEN which flagged some transactions linked to the...
Abia Govt Releases List Of Successful Applicants Into Homeland Security
The Abia State Ministry of Homeland Security has fixed date for training of successful applicants in the recently conducted recruitment exercise. This is even as the Ministry announced the release of results of the Preliminary exams into the Abia Homeland Security Watch. In a statement issued on Wednesday by the Commissioner for Homeland Security, Prince Dan Okoli, applicants are directed to...
Restructure Nigeria Or Risk Break-up – Adeboye Warns Buhari
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has warned of a possible collapse of Nigeria if the Muhammadu Buhari-led government looked on while the country plunged into various insurrections and criminalities. Adeboye disclosed this on Saturday at an event to commemorate the 60th independence anniversary of Nigeria co-organised by the Redeemed Christian Church of God...
Petrol To Sell At N168 As PPMC Increases Depot Rate
The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has increased the depot price of premium motor spirit, better known as petrol. In a November 11 internal memo signed by Ali Tijjani, the PPMC proposed that the November depot price of petrol be increased to N155.17 from N147.67 per litre. According to the memo, the...
UNIBEN SUG, NANS, Others Protest Over Death Of Raped UNIBEN Student
Hundreds of protesters are expected to converge on Thursday, June 4 (today), in Benin City to show solidarity, in response to the alleged rape and murder of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a first-year Microbiology student of the University of Benin, UNIBEN. The solidarity march is being organised by the UNIBEN Student Union Government (SUG), in collaboration with the National Association...
