The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disbursed N2, 903,139,412.86 billion to the six area councils in the FCT and other stakeholders as its share of statutory allocation for the month of June this year.Minister of State of the FCT
The home of comic actor Hafiz Oyetoro was attacked on Monday by armed robbers.The robbers reportedly broke into the actor’s home at about 2am after disarming and tying down his security guards.It was further reported that three other houses on the s
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have renewed their partnership in the fight against organised crimes, including drug trafficking and copyright piracy.Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Bri
United States-based Nigerian arts scholar, Professor Emeritus dele jegede of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, took the audience on a memory lane highlighting Dr. Bruce Onobrakpeya’s peculiar virtues and sterling practices in the art, which stands him
A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt will on September 29 take the plea of four men linked with the robbery and murder of one Chidi Onwukwe, in Elelenwo, Port Harcourt.The four, according to the charge marked PHC/667/CR/2022 filed by the police
Twelve trucks of parboiled rice smuggled into the country have been intercepted by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A, Ikeja, said yesterday that the consignment was smuggled in from neighbouring Benin Republic
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court yesterday sentenced a pastor, Erinmole Adetokunbo, and his accomplice, Adedoyin Oyekanmi, to death for killing a seven-year-old boy for money rituals in Ikorodu.Justice Taiwo delivered the j
Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in the Ibadan zone, yesterday arrested 29 internet fraud suspects in a sting operation at Omi-Adio area of the Oyo State capital.Spokesman of the Commission Wilson Uwujaren said in a s
Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that the agency received 13 Nigerians from Khartoum, Sudan.Abdullahi said this while receiving the returnees in Kano yesterday.The
Representatives of Children Parliaments have called on the Federal Government to address issues of economic inequalities and rising climate change in the country.The representatives noted that children from all parts of the country had been affected
The Jigawa State chapter of the farmers and Northwest Inputs Agro Dealers’ Association of Nigeria (NIADAN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fertiliser Initiative to intervene by making Urea fe
Niger State recorded 175 reported cases of rape from January 2021 to July this year.Out of the number, eight perpetrators were convicted and sentenced to various jail terms, the wife of the state governor, Dr Amina Sani-Bello said.She said that the r
