Covenant Varsity Lecturer arrested for alleged rape of 17-year Student
A lecturer in the Department of Business Management, Covenant University, Ota, Dr Stephen Ukenna, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping a 17-year-old student of…
FG approves $1.5bn for rehabilitation of Port Harcourt refinery
The Nigerian government has approved the sum of $1.5bn for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery, the junior minister in charge of the oil ministry has said. Timipre Sylva,…
ICPC arrests ex-JAMB Registrar Ojerinde over N900m fraud
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested a former Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde,…
Bank customers to pay N6.98k for USSD transactions
The protracted disagreement between banks and telecom services provided over the pricing of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) has come to a head, with the Central Bank of Nigeria, and…
Wakili remanded, charged for murder, kidnapping
Alleged notorious Fulani herder, Abdullahi Wakili, was on Tuesday remanded in in a correctional facility by an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan. Wakili, 70, was charged by the…
Editorial: The military and the war against insecurity
As Nigeria passes through these troubled times, it is important to admit all inadequacies if the times would ever pass and not become permanent. Apart from other dysfunctions within the…
Gunmen on Loose, Kidnap Varsity Students in Ogun, pupils, teachers in Kaduna
It is a black Monday in Nigeria, as gunmen turn their dragnets on educational institutions, kidnapping university students in South West Ogun State, and teachers and pupils in Kaduna in…
First Bank Promotes Cross Border Payment in Sub Sahara Africa with First Global Transfer
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced the launch of First Global Transfer (FGT) to promote international transfer of funds across its…
Varsity Teachers Threaten to Resume Suspended Strike
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have threatened to resume their strike over non-payment of salaries which they suspended three months ago. Ayo Akinwole, chairman of ASUU at…
Troops foil Kidnap Attempt at Another Kaduna School, Rescue 307 students
An attempt by a gang of bandits to kidnap students of the Government Science Secondary School, GSSS, Ikara in Kaduna State was foiled averted by the intervention of federal troops…