A suspected serial burglar, who identified himself as Sunday Joseph, has been hospitalised after residents of the Olupitan area in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State, apprehended and beat him to a pulp. The suspect was caught after breaking into some houses and stealing phones and money in the area. According to an Ondo-based news medium, The Hope, …
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The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned a couple, Mr Udeani Simon Sunday and his wife, Udeani Dorcas Amaka before Justice M.G. Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu. They were arraigned on three-count charges bordering on obtaining the sum of N2,750,000.00 (Two Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) by false pretence in an alleged land fraud. One of the charges against the Udeanis read: “That you Udeani …
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Authorities of the Nigerian Army have taken responsibility for the Sunday night bomb attack, which led to the death of dozens of civilians in Kaduna State. The Army said the villagers were inadvertently affected during its routine mission against terrorists in the axis. A local told Vanguard that Muslims were observing a Maulud event at Kurmin Biri village in Igabi …
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The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has charged members of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) to always uphold the virtues of honesty, integrity and trust as components of their practice. Dr. Obasa said these three virtues, if practised with a deep sense of patriotism, would contribute to making Nigeria greater …
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President Bola Tinubu on Friday attended the plenary session of the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. He is flanked by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar.
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The Lagos State House of Assembly has commenced an assessment of roads in the state with the aim of ascertaining their current conditions. This move by the House Committee on Works and Infrastructure is coming days after lawmakers at the House decried the parlous conditions of some roads within the state. Chairman of the House Committee on Works and Infrastructure, …
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A former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, on Wednesday, told Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, that N1.219 billion was airlifted to the former Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose. According to Obanikoro, the inability of a defunct commercial bank, Diamond Bank, to disburse the colossal sums of money prompted the airlifting of N1.219 billion cash …
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says the registration for its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME begins on January 15, 2024 and ends on February 16, 2024. Similarly, the board, in a statement on Wednesday, said it fixed March 7, 2024 for its2024 MOCK-UTME, while the main UTME will hold from April 19 to 29, 2024. In the …
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Pastor Isaac Oyedepo, the son of Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, has unveiled his own ministry, The Isaac Oyedepo Evangelistic Ministries. Isaac Oyedepo shared a YouTube video titled “Unveiling of the Isaac Oyedepo Evangelistic Ministries” on his X account on Tuesday. In the video, Bishop David Oyedepo, his father, prayed for Isaac and his …
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The Lagos State Government, on Monday, destroyed 1,50O impounded motorcycles, popularly called “Okada” over violation of state traffic laws. The state government, through the Ministry of Transportation, carried out the exercise at the Crush Plant, Taskforce Yard, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr Wale Musa, led the delegation that monitored …
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