The prosecution for Lagos State on Thursday at an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, stalled the trial of Adegboyega Adenekan, 47, the Chrisland School supervisor charged with raping a two-year-old pupil. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that proceedings did not hold as scheduled, due to a typographical error in the additional evidence […]
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The internet users increased marginally to 98.3million in November, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said. The NCC made this disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for December 2017 on its website on Thursday in Abuja. According to the data, Airtel, MTN and Glo gained more internet subscribers during the month in review while […]
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The Managing Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, said on Wednesday that the corporation generated N4.12 billion in 2017, as against the N4.85 billion it targeted. Okhiria made the disclosure at the 2018 Budget Defence and the presentation of the organisation’s performance in 2017 before the House Committee on Land Transport in Abuja. […]
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Oil prices rose on Wednesday lifted by a report that U. S. crude inventories fell last week. Brent crude futures were at $67.84 per barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at 63.85 dollars a barrel. That was up 46 cents, or 0.7 per cent from their last settlement. The market was supported […]
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The Senate has summoned the Minister of Defence, Brig–Gen. Mansur Dan–Ali (retd), to brief it on why Cameroonian soldiers were able to enter Nigeria and arrested some citizens. The upper chamber also urged the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, to urgently liaise with his Cameroonian counterpart to secure the release of the Nigerians. […]
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Former Nigerian Football Federation spokesman, Austin Mgbolu, has been confirmed dead. Mgbolu passed on in his home in Abuja Tuesday night after a brief illness, Completesportsnigeria.com reports. The cause of his death was however unknown as at the time of this report. Mgbolu served under five past Presidents of the Nigeria Football Federation: Emeka Omeruah […]
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A missing painting of a Nigerian princess that attained an almost mythical status after going decades unseen has been discovered in a north London flat. Ben Enwonwu’s 1974 painting of the Ife princess, Adetutu Ademiluyi, known as Tutu, is a national icon in Nigeria, with poster reproductions hanging on walls in homes all over the […]
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A supervisor at Chrisland School in Victoria Garden City in Lekki Lagos raped a two-year-old pupil several times. An ex-social worker, Miss Gloria Chinoyera said this today in a testimony at the newly-inaugurated Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court. The school supervisor, Adegboyega Adenekan, 47, is facing a charge of child defilement. The prosecution alleged […]
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The National Assembly Conference Committee on Electoral Act (amendment) Bill on Tuesday adopted the re-ordered sequence of the 2019 General Elections, making presidential poll the last election to be conducted. The House of Representatives had few weeks ago amended the Electoral Act 2010 with the inclusion of section 25(1). This was to reorder the sequence […]
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The Nigerian Ports Authority has generated N299.5 billion revenue in 2017, General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, Abdullahi Goje, said in a a statement Tuesday in Lagos. He said that the figure exceeded the N162.2 billion generated in 2016 by 84.65 per cent. Mr. Goje added that the 2017 figure was the highest generated revenue […]
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