President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the National Assembly to consider and pass a bill seeking to protect data in the country. President Buhari’s request was contained in letters read on the floor of the House of Representatives and Senate on Tuesday. He premised his request on section 58(2) of the constitution. “Under Section 58, sub-section 2 of the 1999 constitution …

Obukobo Oghenerukhewe, also known as Mayor, was shot and killed by gunmen on Tuesday, according to the Edo State Police Command, which said it was a cult-related killing. Mayor was a final-year student at the University of Benin (UNIBEN). State command Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Chidi Nwabuzor said the late Mayor, who was also the Chief of the Kegites …

The police in Adamawa State have apprehended a 30-year-old man for raping a seven-year-old in Numan, and another 53-year-old man for raping a nine-year old girl in Gwalti village, Numan Local Government Area. A statement by the command’s spokesperson, Suleiman Nguroje gave the names of the suspects as Murtala Muhammed, 30, who is a resident of behind Demsa Guest Inn; …

The management of the University of Benin, Edo State declared Tuesday as a lecture-free day over the killing of a final year student, Desmond Rukevwe Obukhowo, popularly called Mayor. The deceased was a 400-level student of the department of public administration and was shot in the face at close range at about 9pm on Monday. He was also the Kegite …

The passenger who disrupted an Abuja-Lagos flight on Saturday, Mr Obiajulu Uja has been remanded in prison custody. Uja, who embarked on a lone protest against the forthcoming inauguration of President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President, was arraigned on Tuesday before the Zuba Magistrates’ Court, Abuja. He was charged with “public nuisance, resistance to a lawful arrest, threatening violence and …

Kano State Executive Council has appointed the former Independent National Electoral Commission chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, as the Pro-Chancellor/Chairman of the Governing Council of the state-owned Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Kumbotso. The council also appointed Oba Dr. Moshood Aliiwo, as the Chancellor of the university. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, announced the appointments …

The Lagos State Waterways Authority on Monday took its waterways safety awareness campaign to the Ipakodo Ferry Terminal;  Baiyeku, Ibeshe, and Ijede jetties in the Ikorodu area of the state. The campaign is to improve waterways safety ahead of the rainy season and to enlighten ferry passengers about waterways safety rules and regulations. According to a statement signed by the …

Controversial hip-hop artist Habeeb Okikiola, better known by his stage name Portable, has been released from the Ilaro Correctional Center where he had been detained earlier on Monday. An Ogun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ifo in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State had earlier in the day granted him bail in the sum of N300, 000. The …

An Oyo State Family Court 2, sitting at Iyaganku, Ibadan, the state capital on Monday, ordered the remand of a 50-year-old man, Gboyega Lasisi, for allegedly having canal knowledge of his seven-year-old daughter. The Magistrate, Mrs P.O. Adetuyibi, who did not take the defendant’s plea due to want of jurisdiction, ordered his remand in Abolongo Correctional Facility in Oyo town. …

Kwara State Executive Council has granted the state government approval to offset its local debt stock with the outstanding payments of its share of the Federal Government’s unauthorised deductions from Excess Crude Accounts (ECA) between 2009 and 2015. The Nigerian Governors’ Forum is proposing that each state converts its balance of the deductions to what it equals in its debt …