An Osi Magistrate Court, in Akure North council area of Ondo State, has sentenced a monarch, the Ajagun Ode of Ode community, Oba Adewale Sunday Boboye, to 10 years imprisonment for unlawfully demolishing palm trees and food crops. Oba Boboye was earlier charged with malicious damage. The Magistrate, Mrs Bukola Ojo found the traditional ruler guilty of the charges preferred …

Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have foiled an attempted kidnap by a suspected kidnapper. Police sources told our correspondent that around 11 am on Thursday, while operatives of the Eagle-Net were on a patrol along Oreorokpe-Sapele Road, they intercepted a commercial minibus for a routine search. During the search, the operatives reportedly recovered a locally-made single-barrelled gun with …

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd.) for the wisdom of setting up the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 1973, which truly achieved the goal of national integration. In a statement on Friday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari congratulated the former Head of …

Twitter owner,  Elon Musk has announced Linda Yaccarino as the new Chief Executive Officer of the microblogging platform. The announcement on Friday via his verified Twitter handle came barely 24 hours after he disclosed that he had hired a new female CEO for the platform. Musk said the new CEO will “focus primarily on business operations”. He said he would …

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the retiring Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Garba Umar as a Senior Security Adviser on International Police Cooperation and Counter-terrorism in the office of the Minister of Police Affairs. This is to enable Nigeria keep the important position and make way for him to complete his nationally beneficial tenure as an Executive Member of …

The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the case concerning the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, until 14th September. The case mainly involves the federal government’s appeal challenging last year’s decision of the Court of Appeal dismissing the terrorism and treasonable felony charges against Kanu. The Biafra secessionist also has pending …

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has reserved judgment for May 30 on the substantive application brought by the Federal Government, challenging the eight-month strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The presiding judge, Hon. Justice Benedict Kanyip announced the date for judgement on Thursday after the parties in the matter adopted their written addresses in the …

Power supply has been restored In Imo State following the truce reached between the state government, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) andthe  Trade Union Congress (TUC) over the industrial action in the state. The state witnessed a total blackout for six days while the industrial action lasted. Flights were also barred from coming and going out of the Sam Mbakwe …

A 21-year-old woman, Cynthia Atuonah was on Monday remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Centre by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for allegedly defrauding a German of N110 million. Justice Yelim Bogoro ordered the remand of the defendant after she took her plea. The defendant is facing five counts charge on obtaining by false pretences, fraud, and unlawful conversation …

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), in conjunction with a private company, Ala Resort Limited, has concluded arrangements to turn the Akure Airport into an aerotropolis. At a news conference to herald the inauguration of the project in Akure on Monday, Ala Resort’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Moyosola Niran-Oladunni said that the project would be inaugurated on Tuesday with …