THE Federal Government has filed a two-count charge of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition against Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, before the Federal High Court. According to Channels Television’s report on Sunday, the Federal Government accused Emefiele of possessing a single-barrel shotgun without …

THE Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Enugu State, on Saturday, ordered substituted service of a subpoena issued on the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Enugu State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Chukwu. The tribunal had earlier issued a subpoena ordering the Enugu REC to bring before the court the BVAS machines used …

WALES midfielder, Aaron Ramsey, has completed a return to Cardiff City. It is believed Ramsey snubbed offers from Saudi Arabia to seal a return to his boyhood club. The 32-year-old became a free agent after his contract with French side Nice expired last month. Ramsey, speaking to BBC Sport after …

THE 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi has called for more investment in Nigeria’s education sector even as he decried the nation’s 20 million out-of-school population figure, describing the development as unacceptable. He also said the N8,000 earmarked for each poor household as palliative to …

THE Joint Task Force JTF), Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) of the Nigeria Army, has handed over 12 suspected oil thieves to the Delta Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) for prosecution. At the ceremony on Saturday in Asaba, the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 63 Brigade, …

THE Imo state governor, Hope Uzodimma, on Saturday, announced N40,000 as the new minimum wage for civil servants in the state. He stated this at the Imo state stakeholders forum held at Rock view hotel in Owerri. According to the governor, it was to reduce the impact on workers regarding …

TRAGEDY struck again on Saturday, when a tanker crushed to death a highway egg hawker in a multiple auto crash involving a truck, and three vehicles at Otedola Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan-Expressway, amid a terrible gridlock. This came three days after two persons sustained injuries in a multiple auto crash involving …

ONE police officer was killed while two others were severely injured after a man began shooting on a busy street in Fargo, North Dakota, in the United States, on Friday afternoon. A news report by CBS said officers returned fire killed the suspect during the shooting that occurred before 3 …

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered the release of former Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Idris Wada Saleh was earlier remanded in the custody of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, PCACC. The court presided over by Justice S. A. Amobeda gave the order …

DECLAN Rice said his desire to play at the “very highest level” lay behind his decision to leave West Ham for Arsenal in a transfer that is set to make him the most expensive English footballer in history. The 24-year-old England midfielder explained on Saturday why he was leaving in …