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An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 28-year-old man, Ayodeji Alomoge, to death by hanging for killing a man who was having an affair with his wife. Alomoge, who was tried on a count bordering on murder, according to the charge, had “on 21st of June, 2022, at Ikere Ekiti, murdered […]

He made the assertion when he received a delegation of NIHITE, at his office on Wednesday in Abuja. He further stated that contractors inundate the country with substandard materials since they are not subjected to testing. Duna said the agency saddled with the responsibility of conducting technical research on suitable building and road construction design […]

The Lagos zone of the National Emergency Management Agency has blamed the escalation of the fire incident that engulfed four buildings in the Idumota area of the Lagos Island Local Government Area of the state on the lack of a water source. The NEMA State Coordinator, Ibrahim Farinloye, disclosed this in a telephone interview with PUNCH […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday stormed the national secretariat of the Labour Party in Abuja to protest the party’s national convention planned for end of this month. The congress also demanded the sacking of the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure. The NLC leadership accused Abure of planning to hold a “secret” convention […]

The Senate, on Tuesday, mandated its committees on Army, Navy and Air Force to liaise with the military for a thorough investigation of the gruesome killings of 17 officers and men of the Nigerian Army in Okuoma Community, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State. The four military officers and 13 soldiers were said to […]

The House of Representatives has urged military authorities to investigate the murder of 17 personnel in the Okuoma community, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State. Seventeen soldiers deployed to the Delta community on a peace mission met their untimely death last Thursday in an ambush. Moving a matter of urgent importance titled “Need to […]

National President, Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has called on the Federal Government to pay the four months withheld salaries of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions. This was in reaction to the seven-day warning strike that SSANU/NASU began on Monday, which grounded universities’ activities across […]

With the ECOWAS lifting economic and travel sanctions imposed on Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger, STEPHEN ANGBULU examines the long-term implications for the sub-region and Africa and if this is enough to win back the trust of the estranged nations On Saturday, February 24, 2024, 12 West African Presidents and Heads of Government marched into Nigeria’s […]

Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command have rescued a security man attached to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku Ozalla, who was reportedly kidnapped on Tuesday with a staff nurse. This was contained in a statement the command issued on Wednesday, adding that a manhunt to arrest perpetrators and rescue the staff nurse […]