Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered that media mogul, Chief Raymond Dokpesi should be remanded in Kuje prisons pending the perfection of his bail conditions. Justice Gabriel Kolawole, while granting bail to Dokpesi who is standing trial on a six-count charge of fraud and violations of Public Procurement Act, refused to allow the…
As a Nigerian, I only managed to live in the country for the first 19 years of my life, but the Nigerian factor is so strong that it is not letting me go 30 years later. Even though I have lived in other countries more than I ever lived in Nigeria, yet the connection, the…
An Ado-Ekiti High Court, yesterday, sentenced one David Olugboyega to death by hanging for armed robbery involving N14,570. Justice John Adeyeye passed the judgment following the confessional statement of the convict and the conclusion of trial by the prosecution. “An accused may be convicted on his own confession alone as long as the court was…
THE Nigerian Union of Pensioners, South West zone, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the case of pensioners in the zone. This was contained in a letter to the president, entitled: “Myriad of problems of Nigerian pensioners and issues of local government pensioners and retired primary school teachers,” made available to the…
There has been anxiety at the Jonaith Hotel and Suites in the Ajah area of Lagos State after a 24-year-old guest, identified as Michael Afeso, was found dead in his room. PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased’s girlfriend, who had stayed with him on Friday evening, was sighted in the early hours of Saturday. She…
Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, says Osun State received only N55m from the Federation Account for the month of September, 2015. He said the money could not even settle the electricity bill of the government secretariat. The governor said the development was evidence that Nigeria was experiencing an economic meltdown. He, therefore, called on…
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently facing many battles from different angles. While he’s trying to settle the war ravaging his party, All Progressive Congress, he is also battling to settle down to the real business of governance to give the masses who supported and voted for him the dividends of democracy. Out of all these…
The mangement of star actress, Funke Akindele, has condemned in strong terms the unwarranted posts by blogger, Linda Ikeji, ascribing a harmless picture on the award winning role interpreter’s Instagram’s page to be a mockery of the alleged separation between her colleague, Toyin Aimakhu and her husband, Adeniyi Johnson. While Linda went too far and…
DISCOVERING NYERERE CHINENYE ANYIM (The APC Governorship Candidate for Abia State) What I Will Do To Change Abia State: FREE EDUCATION Only a handful of past Nigerian generational leaders identified themselves with the universal notion that education is the foremost answer to the problems of mankind. Some of these leaders, who held positions in governance,…
