The Nigerian police has arrested a police officer who mistakenly shot and killed a 14-year-old WASSCE candidate in Ibadan. It was gathered that the tragic incident occurred on Tuesday along Gbagi-Alakia road when the student, Kehinde Alade, was on his way to write his Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination. According to the Police Public Relations…
Senators of South-East extraction have lodged a complaint over the “exclusion” of the zone from the Federal Government’s irrigation projects in the 2025 budget. The government budgeted N3.2 trillion under the Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund. Out of the figure, N380bn was earmarked specifically for irrigation development projects to be implemented through the various River…
Governor Peter Mbah Of Enugu State, Thursday, inaugurated the Enugu State Ease-of-Doing-Business Council, saying it was in tandem with his electoral promise to grow the state into a $30bn economy from $4.4bn by repositioning it as the premier destination for business, investment, tourism and living. Inaugurating the 25-man Council at the Government House, Enugu, Mbah,…
Ebonyi State Chairman of the Association of Local Government Employees of Nigeria (ALGON), Prince Chinedu Uburu, at the weekend said that the 13 local government areas of the state need over N10 billion to pay the gratuities of local government retired workers. Uburu, who is also the Chairman of Ebonyi LGA, made the revelation during…
The legal team representing the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has formally submitted an updated list of lawyers, family members, and associates who will be attending his next court hearings scheduled for May 21st and 22nd, 2025. In a letter addressed to the Deputy Chief Registrar (Litigation) of…
According to research, the most costly states in Nigeria to reside in are Enugu, Kebbi, and Niger. This was revealed by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its April Consumer Price Index (CPI), which was made public on Thursday. Enugu State has the highest headline inflation on an annual basis, at 35.98 percent, according…
Shock and grief have enveloped the Eche Ezema community in Ibagwa Aka, the headquarters of Igbo Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, following the reported murder of four siblings by a clergyman. The children, Kamsiyochukwu Ezema (7), Ezinne Ezema (6), Ujunwa Ezema (5), and Chinedu Ezema (2), were said to have been gruesomely…
The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a 43-year-old woman identified as Gift for allegedly biting off the tip of her lover’s penis during a domestic dispute in the Mile 3 area of Diobu, Port Harcourt. The incident, which occurred on Thursday, sent shockwaves through the densely populated Bishop Okoye Street when news of the…
A gas cylinder explosion has killed about two persons and injured several others at the Plumbing Market, along Uga Street, near Onitsha Bridge Head Market in Anambra State. The incident which occurred on Friday, caused panic in the market as traders, passers-by and customers scampered to safety. An eyewitness near the scene said the…
The Nigerian Army has dismissed a soldier, Lance Corporal Samuel Emmanuel, over his involvement in an armed robbery incident. The dismissal followed a court-martial held at the 16 Brigade Garrison earlier in the week. According to an official memo from the Nigerian Army, Lance Corporal Emmanuel, who was serving under the 16 Brigade Garrison, was…
