NIGERIA Immigration Service (Nis) officials have recovered no fewer than 700 voter cards from foreigners living in the country during a clampdown on illegally registered voters in the run-up to next year's elections.
AFROBEAT musician Seun Kuti has lambasted Winners Chapel leader Bishop David Oyedepo over his recent outburst criticising President Muhammadu Buhari saying his is also compromised because he is dangerously wealthy and beholden to politicians.
TRADITIONAL rulers in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State have conferred the chieftaincy title of Ikeogu of Igboland in President Muhammadu Buhari during a recent campaign rally saying they did so because of the good job he is doing.
POLICE in Nnewi have released 33 traders that were indiscriminately arrested last month following a clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and security forces that lead to the death of an inspector.
MEN of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a local vigilante who shot and killed a young man named as Abbati Mahmud when the group was enforcing the compulsory shaving of heads in the area.
LEADERS of the Action Alliance Party (AAP) have rejected Uche Nwosu the son-in-law of Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha as its gubernatorial candidate for next February's elections.
NIGERIA'S Social Democratic Party (SDP) has distanced itself from a recent declaration by the Coalition of United Political Parties (Cupp) that it was one of the parties that had endorsed former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for president in next year's elections.
WILFRED Nwovueze the father of the young woman recently murdered by her fiancé is Rivers State has insisted that her boyfriend must marry her corpse in line with the local cultural tradition.
Earlier this week, Prince Owabie, also known as J-Boy, was arrested on suspicion of murdering his pregnant girlfriend Betty Nwovueze. Police found where he buried her body and exhumed it in Rumuepirikom, in Obio-Akpor Local Government area of Rivers State before taking it to the hospital morgue.
KANO driver Shedrack Paul has been sentenced to seven months in prison by an Abuja magistrates court for stealing several Brazilian hair wigs valued at a total of N96,500 after he pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
Mr Paul, 29, was also ordered to pay N96,500 to the complainant, Imeh Edet, of Durum II, Abuja. However, the magistrate, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, however, gave the convict an option of paying a N8, 000 fine rather than going to jail.
CIVIL society group Advocacy for Advancement of Peace in Africa (Aapa) has berated the newly-elected Osun State governor Gboyega Oyetola, for what it termed a delay and contradiction in action saying he has hit the ground crawling instead of running.
NIGERIA Immigration Service (Nis) officials have recovered no fewer than 700 voter cards from foreigners living in the country during a clampdown on illegally registered voters in the run-up to next year's elections.
AFROBEAT musician Seun Kuti has lambasted Winners Chapel leader Bishop David Oyedepo over his recent outburst criticising President Muhammadu Buhari saying his is also compromised because he is dangerously wealthy and beholden to politicians.
TRADITIONAL rulers in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State have conferred the chieftaincy title of Ikeogu of Igboland in President Muhammadu Buhari during a recent campaign rally saying they did so because of the good job he is doing.
POLICE in Nnewi have released 33 traders that were indiscriminately arrested last month following a clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and security forces that lead to the death of an inspector.
MEN of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a local vigilante who shot and killed a young man named as Abbati Mahmud when the group was enforcing the compulsory shaving of heads in the area.
LEADERS of the Action Alliance Party (AAP) have rejected Uche Nwosu the son-in-law of Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha as its gubernatorial candidate for next February's elections.
NIGERIA'S Social Democratic Party (SDP) has distanced itself from a recent declaration by the Coalition of United Political Parties (Cupp) that it was one of the parties that had endorsed former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for president in next year's elections.
WILFRED Nwovueze the father of the young woman recently murdered by her fiancé is Rivers State has insisted that her boyfriend must marry her corpse in line with the local cultural tradition.
KANO driver Shedrack Paul has been sentenced to seven months in prison by an Abuja magistrates court for stealing several Brazilian hair wigs valued at a total of N96,500 after he pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
CIVIL society group Advocacy for Advancement of Peace in Africa (Aapa) has berated the newly-elected Osun State governor Gboyega Oyetola, for what it termed a delay and contradiction in action saying he has hit the ground crawling instead of running.
