Falz Condemns Police Killing Of Teenager, Rape And Murder Of UNIBEN Student
Singer, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, has condemned the killing of Tina Ezekwe, who was shot by a policeman in Lagos and Uwaila Omozuwa, a student of the University of Benin, UNIBEN who was raped and killed in a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Benin City, the Edo State capital. The 29-year-old demanded justice for the two...
IPPIS: ASUU Plunged FG Into N800bn Debt, Says Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said there will be no going back paying University lecturers with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS. While stating that IPPIS had improved the effectiveness and efficiency of payroll administration, Ngige said before its implementation in the university system, the Academic Staff Union of Universities allegedly plunged the...
Decaying Body Of Kidnapped ex-Commissioner Recovered In Forest
Nineteen days after he was abducted from his farm, the decomposing body of former Edo State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mr Egbe Ediagbonya, has been recovered from a forest near his farm in Utese. Ediagbonya, who was also former Chairman of Ovia North East Local Government Area, was kidnapped in the early hours of May 16 in his Utese...
FG Threatens to Sue ASUU over Persisting Strike
Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has indicated the federal government’s intention to drag the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) before the National Arbitration Panel and even the National Industrial Court (NIC) if the union fails to respond to the invitation for negotiations. He urged the striking lecturers to take the opportunity of a recent invitation by...
Decaying Body Of Kidnapped ex-Commissioner Recovered In Forest
Nineteen days after he was abducted from his farm, the decomposing body of former Edo State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mr Egbe Ediagbonya, has been recovered from a forest near his farm in Utese. Ediagbonya, who was also former Chairman of Ovia North East Local Government Area, was kidnapped in the early hours of May 16 in his Utese...
Police Arrest 11 Men For Raping 12-Year-Old Girl
The Jigawa State Police Command said it had arrested 11 men for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in the state. The men were said to have raped the victim on different occasions. The suspects were arrested when one of them allegedly lured the victim to the Limawa Market in of the Dutse Local Government Area of the state. Upon interrogation, the victim...
Buhari Set To Approve Reopening Of Worship Centres
President Muhammadu Buhari is likely to approve the reopening of churches and mosques from Monday this week. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha says appropriate recommendations on the reopening of worship centres have been forwarded to the President for approval. Mustapha was responding to questions from journalists after he...
“Your Lopsided Appointments Will Ruin Nigeria” — Umar Dangiwa Warn Buhari
Umar Dangiwa, a retired colonel and former military administrator of Kaduna, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s knack for appointing people from his section of Nigeria into office will ruin the country. ABN TV reports that Dangiwa flayed the president in an open letter to him, citing the case of the acting appeal court president whose appointment has not been confirmed. Buhari had...
“Social Distancing In Church Is Unbiblical” – Pastor Chris
Chris Okotie, the pastor of the Household of God Church, says the proposed guidelines by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for the reopening of churches are “unbiblical”. Like mosques, churches have remained closed in several states across the country for weeks as part of measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But according to The Sun, CAN have...
Bandits Kill APC LG Chairman, Take Over Villages
Bandits have killed the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Batsari Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State, Mr Abdulhamid Duburawa. The lawmaker representing Batsari Constituency at the State House of Assembly, Hon. Jabiru Yauyau, confirmed the killing of the APC chairman in a telephone interview with THISDAY yesterday. Some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Faskari LGA in the...
