Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia has declared a two-week holiday for civil servants in the state to celebrate Christmas and New Year. Alia made the declaration on Tuesday in Makurdi in his Christmas message to Benue people. The governor said that the holiday commenced on December 24 and ends on January 6, 2025. He said the essence of the long holiday was to allow workers to enjoy the season with their loved ones. Alia enjoined them to use the period to engage in farming activities to boost food production and reduce poverty. “In the spirit of the Yuletide and in…
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An Abuja High Court has given an order of interim injunction restraining the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and others from selling a landed property. The property is located at Plot No. 4411, Cadastral Zone A09, Guzape District, Abuja. Justice Mohammed Zubairu made the order following an ex-parte motion moved by counsel to the applicant, Reuben Atabo, SAN. Although the motion ex-parte, marked: M/16807/2024, was moved by Atabo on Monday, its certified true copy was made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday. Justice Zubairu, who is a vacation judge, held that he was inclined…
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Monday, boasted that for three straight months, he has fulfilled Nigeria’s financial obligations without touching remittance by Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) or exploring Ways and Means from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). “Push me to my brag mode, in the last three months, I’ve not taken a penny from NNPC before I meet my other obligations. To me, that is excellent,” a gleeful Tinubu told reporters on Monday during a chat at his Bourdillon residence in the highbrow Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The former Lagos governor said he has met Nigeria’s…
The Primate Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Most Rev’d Henry Ndukuba, says 2025 will be a better year for Nigerians. Ndukuba made the assertion at a news conference on the state of the nation on Monday in Abuja. He said that though 2024 was a challenging year for Nigerians, the country would reap many benefits from its present situation in the year 2025. He said that the removal of fuel subsidy, increase in oil prices, hyperinflation in food prices, and the financial difficulties, no doubt made 2024 more challenging than 2023. He, however, likened the challenges to the pain of…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of politicising the recent stampedes in Abuja, Anambra, and Ibadan, where several lives were tragically lost. In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, the APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, condemned the PDP’s actions, calling them “grossly indecent, insensitive, and despicable.” Morka criticised the opposition party for using the national grief over the stampedes to launch a political attack on the APC-led administration of President Bola Tinubu. Morka stated, “At a time of national grief over the stampedes that resulted in the deaths of citizens, the…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has debunked reports in a section of the media alleging that the Old Port Harcourt Refinery which was re-streamed two months ago has been shut down. Olufemi Soneye, the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the Corporation, in a statement insists the reports are far from the truth. “We wish to clarify that such reports are totally false as the refinery is fully operational as verified a few days ago by former Group Managing Directors of NNPC. “Preparation for the day’s loading operation is currently ongoing. “Members of the public are advised to…
It happened somewhere in Kogi State, according to some randy reporters and amplified by randier commentators. The woman had been married for 18 years without a child. The man is a 300-level undergraduate. We can safely say he is 22 years old. Yeah, he is that young. Maybe that’s why he had the energy to do the damage that he did. You didn’t think what he did was a maximum damage, a 20-year-old knocking up a Vice Chancellor’s wife? Let’s back up a little. According to my friend, Professor Abigail (surname withheld). There’s a lot going on in this story…
A fire incident has claimed the lives of a husband, his wife and their grandson which affected a storey building at Ori-Eru, Idikan area of Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fire incident occurred in the early hours of Friday. Mr Yemi Akinyinka, General Manager Oyo State Fire Services Agency, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday in Ibadan. Akinyinka said the personnel of the agency received a distress call about the incident through a call made by one Hassan at exactly 3:46 a.m on Friday and immediately deployed personnel to…
A civil servant, Oluwafemi Akinmulero, has told a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 12-year-old marriage to his wife, Oluwatosin, because of her unrepentant promiscuity. Akinmulero, a resident of Ilupeju-Wire and Cable, Apata, Ibadan, prayed for the dissolution on Friday in his counterargument against his wife’s allegation of frequent battery and absence of love. “I also don’t want Oluwatosin in my life again, enough is enough. “She is too wayward, and I can no longer cope with her adulterous lifestyle,” Akinmulero said. The respondent prayed the court to award him custody of the first two children,…
A Delta State High Court sitting at Akwukwu-igbo, on Friday sentenced one Obinna Eze to death by hanging for killing a six-month-old child. Eze was charged with three counts of attempted murder, murder and causing grievous harm, preferred against him by the Delta State Government. The state government had charged Eze for killing a six-month-old child, one Chimaobi Igwe, and causing bodily harm to the child’s mother, Mrs Blessing Igwe. He pleaded not guilty and trial went on. However, on Friday, Justice Marcel Okoh, found the defendant guilty of all the charge. While delivering the judgement, Justice Okoh, held that…