For the second time this year, the national grid suffered a collapse on Monday resulting in blackout across the country. The states affected included Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. In a text message to its customers, the Eko Electricity Distribution Company in Lagos informed that the system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am. …

The wife of the Governor of Anambra State, Dr Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano has expressed outrage over stripping and parading naked of a woman alleged to have committed adultry. In the ugly afterwards of her act that were captured on video and widely circulated, a group of people derided the woman as they parade her around the Aguleri community where the …

A female inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Lagos State Command, Chinyere Okike is the best graduating student of the Peace and Conflict Resolution department, National Open University (NOUN). According to a statement by the NCS, Okike earned a second-class upper degree in the course. Another inmate, Afolabi Alegbe, a male, was awarded an MSc in the same course. …

For the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), the leading environmental NGO in Africa, the World Wildlife Day (WWD) 2022, which held recently, was another opportunity champion the cause of wildlife preservation in the continent. This theme of this year’s WWD 2022, “Recovering Key Species for Ecosystem Restoration,” resonated in the activities of the three-day commemorate which commenced on 1st March. According …

It’s a mixture of tradition, culture and contemporary entertainment as the people of Itoriland in Ogun State celebrate the 18th coronation anniversary of Oba Abdul-Fatai Akorede Ayinde Akamo, the Olu nla of Itori Egbaland. Itori is the headquarters of Ewekoro Local Government Area, an area that has been quarried for the production of cement since 1959 by the then West …

An Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations has ordered the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd.) to produce before it on 22nd March Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari, who is facing trial for alleged drug trafficking at a Federal High Court in Abuja. Until his suspension last August, Kyari was …

The Lagos State Government has outlawed the National Union of Road Transport Workers Union (NURTW) from parks and garages across the state. This is amid the tension generated by the conflict between the union’s national body and its Lagos State chapter, led by Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (well known as MC Oluomo). In a state by the state Commissioner for Information …

The Anambra State government has expressed deep sadness at Tuesday’s death of the Head of the Federal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID), Joseph Egbunike. Until he slumped and died in his office in Abuja, Egbunike was the head of the Special Investigation Panel that is handling the alleged money laundering case involving the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba …

Nigeria is no longer the country with the highest number of extremely poor people in the world, according to the World Poverty Clock (WPC).  WPC, which is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally, now ranks India as the topmost country in that deplorable league. In 2018, Nigeria with 87 million people recorded to be in extreme poverty, held …

The Head of the Federal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID), Joseph Egbunike is dead. A Deputy Inspector-General of Police, sources said Egbunike slumped in his office in Abuja on Tuesday night. He is the head of the Special Investigation Panel looking into the alleged money laundering case involving the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. The FCIID is …