CONSEQUENT on the judgment of Justice Kehinde Ogundare of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on the terms of settlement of the three-count charges bordering on abuse of Naira notes preferred against Okechukwu Pascal (alias Cubana Chief Priest) by…
THE Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Saad Abubakar III, has said it would take decades for the bandit-ravaged North-West geopolitical zone to come out of the menacing security challenge. The President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA)…
14 year old suspected boy was charged with two counts of 1st-degree murder in a mass shooting outside a school in Ottawa, the Toronto Police Service said. The shooting occurred earlier this month in the parking lot of North Albion…
SAUDI Arabia have accused tourism companies from other countries of misleading visit visa holders into participating in the Hajj pilgrimage. The Security Spokesperson of the Saudi Interior Ministry, Talal Shalhoub, said that those companies issued visas not intended for Hajj,…
AN Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, remanded two teenage boys at the Oregun Juvenile Remand Home, Lagos, for allegedly gang-raping a 14-year old girl. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, refused to take the defendants’ plea. Osunsanmi ordered them…
EDO Government and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) have canvassed the use of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to promote the ease of doing business. The state government and the agency said this at a four-day training on…
THE Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has expressed concerns over the sour relationship between the governor and the Sultan of Sokoto as well as the rumour of impending dethronement of the Sultan. The concerns were reinforced by the action of the…
THE Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) said the country’s Free Trade Zones generated N11.1 billion between 2020 and 2023. Dr Olufemi Ogunyemi, Managing Director of NEPZA, said this in a statement by his Head of Corporate Communication, Martins Odeh,…
THE United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women has said 113 countries have never had a woman Head of State and only 26 are led by a woman today. The UN…
THE UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has condemned terror attacks against several churches and synagogues in Russia’s mainly Muslim Dagestan region, with the death toll now rising to at least 20. Guterres, in a statement by his Spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, on…
