Liz Truss has officially become the new prime minister of the UK after meeting Queen Elizabeth at the Balmoral Castle in Scotland. She is UK’s third female prime minister, and the 15th premier of the Queen’s 70 years on the throne. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said: “The Queen received in audience The Right Honourable Elizabeth Read More…
Isiaka Asoju, 48, who allegedly defrauded a man of N155milion, under the pretext of selling a 15-acre land to him, was on Tuesday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court. The defendant who is to face trial on a charge of obtaining under false pretence has, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. SP Ogbunike, Read More…
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have invited two members of staff of Newworks Solutions and Investment Limited to tell what they know about an alleged fraud running into billions of naira. The EFCC’s move followed intelligence received by the Commission claiming that the Ministry of Interior Read More…
The residents of Igbe, Laara and neighbouring communities in Igbogbo area of Ikorodu on Tuesday have pleaded with Lagos State Government to reconstruct Igbe-Laara link road. They made the appeal in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ikorodu, lamenting on the state of the road and how it had made commuting Read More…
Afrobeat musician, Femi Kuti, has said that he thought he would die at a very young age. Femi, son of legendary Afrobeat singer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti turned 60 on June 16. Speaking during an interview with Goldmyne TV on Sunday, the singer revealed that he was “quite shocked” that he was still alive to celebrate 60 years. He Read More…
Pakistan authorities are scrambling to restrain their biggest lake from bursting its banks after a last-ditch attempt to drain it failed. Water levels in Manchar Lake, in the southeastern Sindh province, had risen to dangerously high levels after days of record monsoon rains. The attempt to breach it brought about the displacement of up to Read More…
Delta Government has pledged to uphold support for persons with disability, especially the deaf and dumb, by including them in its empowerment programmes. Mr. Festus Agas, the Chief of Staff, Government House, had made the vow on Monday, while addressing members of the Association of the Deaf and Dumb at the Government House, Asaba, on an Read More…
Christiana D’ivoire Iyama and Margaret Ogwu, have been arrested by the police in Ogun State for running a baby factory. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the police spokesperson disclosed in a statement on Monday in the state that the police had stormed the factory located at No 4 on Ibrahim Famuyiwa Street, Agbado in Ifo LGA. He said Read More…
Lagos State House of Assembly presided over by Speaker Mudashiru Obasa has on Monday, adopted a bill establishing the Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA) and Forensic Centre into law, after it scaled the third reading. The centre will aid criminal investigations, law enforcement and preservation of evidence for the judicial system. The bill was passed yesterday after Read More…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says its members have remained unyielding to get what public universities need from the Federal Government to survive and compete globally. Prof. Ayo Akinwole, the Chairman of ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, made the avowals on Monday in Ibadan. Akinwole said that lecturers in public universities in Nigeria have Read More…
