Edo State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Mr Chris Nehikhare has said that the Police have arrested one of the suspected attackers of the intending passengers kidnapped at Igueben train station in Edo on Saturday. Confirming on Sunday that 31 intending passengers were kidnapped at the train station, Nehikhare said that the victims were said to be waiting for a …

The Court of Appeal will decide on the suit filed against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by the Federal Government on 26th January. Last September, the government dragged ASUU before the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) over the failure of the union to call off protracted its strike, which eventually last nine months. Although the NICN ruled …

Two months away from the anniversary of the terrorists attack on an Abuja-Kaduna passenger train, gunmen on Saturday kidnapped scores of passengers waiting to connect a train from Igueben station in Edo State to Warri, Delta State. The Police command in Edo State confirmed the incident in which many others were said to have been injured. In a statement, the …

The President/Chairman of Tompolo Foundation, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (well known as Tompolo) on Friday donated 458 single seater desks worth millions of Naira to the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. At the combined matriculation for the 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 academic sessions of the university, the Executive Secretary of Tompolo Foundation, …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in the Diaspora has elected Comrade John Ogar from the University of Sierra Leone, as its president. Prince Ogar takes over from Evidence Ahayere, whose tenure has come to an end. He was declared the winner after he scored the highest votes to beat Comrade Abdulrazak Abdulrahman from the South Africa University in …

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) have received N500 million each from Abdul Samad Rabiu Initiative for Africa (ASR Africa) as a security sector support grant. The grant was given as part of Abdul Samad Rabiu Social Corporate Responsibility and support for security agencies in the country. According to a statement from the Public Relations …

Tributes are pouring in for the Photo Editor of The Guardian newspapers, Mr Femi Femi Adebesin-Kuti, who died on Friday morning at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta. Popularly known as Eshin Funfun (white horse), Adebesin was an active member of both the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Photo Journalists Association of Nigeria (PJAN). He has been buried according to …

A total of 14 bodies have been recovered while six are still missing in Tuesday’s boat accident in the Koko/Besse Local Government Area of Kebbi. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the boat was conveying about 100 rice farmers to Samanaji, a riverside community when it capsized. Already, 80 people were rescued alive while the search for the six …

A couple, Taiwo and Salawa Ajalorun, and six others have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly selling human parts. The suspects, who allegedly killed three persons before they were arrested, reportedly sold human legs for N30,000, and a heart for N50,000 to their buyers, who used them for money rituals. In a statement on …

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has suspended Mr Nimi Walson-Jack as a member of its National Executive Council(NEC) and stripped him of his privileges as its former General Secretary. According to a communiqué made available to journalists on Thursday, the NBA-NEC resolved at its last quarterly meeting in Abuja to punish Walson-Jack, who was said to have acted as a …