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A Magistrates’ Court in Jos , on Tuesday sentenced a 32- year old bus conductor, Benjamin Joseph, to three months in a correctional facility, for assaulting an officer. The Presiding Judge, Shawomi Bokkos, summarily tried and sentenced Joseph, after he pleaded guilty to the charge. The prosecutor said that the convict allegedly assaulted a police officer on duty who had tried to persuade him from causing traffic obstruction with his […]

The Anambra State government has instituted a panel of inquiry to unravel the circumstances surrounding the alleged forgery, following the controversy trailing the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME,  score for Mmesoma Ejikeme, which JAMB, has discovered to be fake. The state Commissioner for Education, Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, while speaking on the issue, described the development as very embarrassing. Chuma-Udeh, regretted that the unfortunate issue came at a time the governor, […]

Fire has gutted Sopurum Hotel, located in the Nkwelle community, a commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, burning a substantial part of the structure. It was gathered that the incident started at the early hours on Monday, but the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. The state police spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the fire incident, saying that the situation is under control. Ikenga said there was no […]

A student activist, Olorunfemi Adeyeye, who was suspended in 2016 by the University of Lagos for leading a mass protest against poor infrastructure on campus, has graduated after seven years. Adeyeye narrated how he alongside some student activists sometime on April 2016, protested the conditions of living and learning at the University of Lagos. He said there were poor electricity and water supplies, adding that students had to buy sachet […]

The Ebonyi Government has warned residents against illegal building of speed breakers, otherwise known as “bumps“, on major roads. This was contained in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Works and Transport, Stanley Mbam, in Abakaliki on Wednesday. According to Mbam, the government has observed with dismay the rate of indiscriminate siting of unapproved speed breakers at various locations in the state. He said the general public is requested […]

The Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodimma on Wednesday, shut down illegal motor parks in the Owerri capital. Uzodimma said that touts were using the motor parks to humiliate motorists, and commuters and also damage the reputation of his government. The governor spoke in Owerri, through the Commissioner for Transport, Rex Anunobi, while meeting with stakeholders in the transport sector in the state. Anunobi said the governor, has expressed concerns on […]

The Coalition of Igala/Bassa Socio-Cultural Associations has accused a politician in Kogi state of orchestrating violence against the people of Kogi East Senatorial District. These allegations were made in a letter addressed to the Chief of Naval Staff of the Nigerian Navy, Emmanuel Ogalla, in Abuja on Tuesday. The protesters carried placards with inscriptions such as “Say No to Bad Governance in Kogi,” “Enough of the Bloodshed in Kogi State,” […]

Not less than six persons have been confirmed dead, while 15 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a bus crash at Sekona on the Ogbomoso-Odo-Oba road in Oyo State. The crash, occurred on Sunday evening, involving a commercial bus and a trailer. According to a witnesses, the victims were all male adults, and their corpses had been deposited at the Ladoke Akintola Teaching Hospital mortuary while the injured ones […]

Four people have been injured from gas explosion in Lagos in the early hours of Monday. The incident happened at Ijaiye beside the Apostolic Church, Agege, where it was discovered that a shop stored with gas cylinders caught fire. In a report by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), it was discovered that one of the gas cylinders got exploded as a result of gas leakage and caught fire […]