The General Court Martial (GCM) sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State has sentenced a soldier serving in Operation LAFIYA DOLE to death for murder. Other soldiers also bagged jail sentences for various offences ranging from manslaughter to illegal possession of fire arms and ammunitions. The soldier, Lance Corporal John Godwin, was charged with murder, which is…
December 15, 2017 • Headline,
The Electoral Act No. 6, 2010 Amendment Bill 2017 passed recently by the senate makes it mandatory for use of card reader and banned manual accreditation, when it becomes a law. According to the amendment, House of Representatives aspirants are now to pay N1,000,000 and those for State Assembly will pay N500,000. The law stated…
December 15, 2017 • Headline,
The UN's Secretary-General has condemned the arrest of two journalists in Myanmar, saying that their arrest is symptomatic of eroding freedoms in the Southeast Asian country. Speaking to the press in Tokyo Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres framed the plight of the two detained men "in relation to the dramatic violations of human rights that…
December 15, 2017 • Headline,
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday denied issuing a bench warrant for the arrest of the ex-Chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Force, Mr. Abdul-Rasheed Maina. The EFCC stated this in a counter-affidavit deposed to by one of its litigation officers, Yusuf Musa, at the Federal High Court, Kaduna. The commission, in…
December 15, 2017 • Headline,
No fewer than 249 Nigerians have again been repatriated from troubled Libya. Their return was facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU), The returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 9.47pm aboard an Afriqiyah Airbus A330-300 with Registration Number 5A-ONR. They were received by the…
December 15, 2017 • News,
Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Thursday presented a N267 billion Appropriation Bill  for the 2018 fiscal year to the Oyo State House of Assembly. Sources report that the appropriation bill  tagged, `Budget of Stabilisation,’’  presented to the assembly was N60 billion  higher than the N207 billion presented in  2017. Ajimobi said  capital expenditure…
December 15, 2017 • News,
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