Twenty-five-year-old Victoria Okocha, yesterday, gave a chilling account of how she was abducted by suspected herdsmen in Isa-Ogwashi-Uku area of Delta State, gang-raped and forced to drink another victim’s blood as water, while in her captors’ den. Okocha left her home town in Ubulu-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of …
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Magu Failed To Submit EFCC Audited Accounts For Four Years
Annual report not submitted to N’Assembly in four years contrary to law •Ribadu, Farida, Lamorde in full compliance •SAN seeks bail for suspended anti-corruption chief The suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, failed to submit the audited accounts of the anti-graft agency to …
Read More »Dead Man Forced Out Of Casket In Anambra For Refusing To Be Buried (Graphic)
Dead Man Forced Out Of Casket For Allegedly Refusing To Be Transported For Burial (Graphic Video) IgbereTV captured the moment a dead man was forced out of his casket for allegedly refusing to be transported home for burial in Anambra State. According to eyewitnesses, all the ambulances brought in to …
Read More »Bill Seeking To Recognise Males As Rape Victims Passed By Senate
The senate has passed a bill seeking to recognise males as rape victims. The bill passed third reading on Tuesday after a report on it was presented by Opeyemi Bamidele, chairman of the committee on judiciary, human rights and legal matters. The bill sponsored by Oluremi Tinubu, senator representing Lagos …
Read More »Buhari Backs Keyamo On 774,000 Jobs
President Muhammadu Buhari has given Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, the go-ahead with the plan to recruit 774, 000 under the Special Public Works Progamme (SPW). Keyamo confirmed the development to The Nation on Wednesday in Abuja. The Minister said he has the instructions of President …
Read More »AfDB Appoints Rabah Arezki As Vice President
The African Development Bank Group has appointed Rabah Arezki as Chief Economist and Vice President, Economic Governance and Knowledge Management. The appointment takes effect from October 1, 2020. According to a press release from the Bank, Dr. Rabah Arezki hails from Algeria and his presently the Chief Economist for Middle …
Read More »Senate Prescribes Life Jail For Kidnappers, Passes Bill
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill which prescribes life jail, as against the current 10 years maximum sentence, for kidnappers. The bill contains amendments to the criminal code which is currently in operation in the southern part of Nigeria. The proposed legislation, sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, is titled, …
Read More »Man Plans With SARS Officers To Arrest His Girlfriend So He Can Propose To Her
A video making the rounds on social media has shown the moment some SARS officers tried to arrest a lady in the presence of her boyfriend. However, there was a quick plot twist after the boyfriend got down on his knees during the staged arrest, and pulled out a ring. …
Read More »Deaconess Yemi Awolola Remanded In Prison For Torture Of 14-year-old Housemaid
Living Faith Church Deaconess Who Brutalised 14-year-old Girl With Hot Knife In Genital Area, Pleads Guilty, Remanded In Prison Yemi Awolola, a deaconess with the Living Faith Church also known as Winners’ Chapel, who brutalised a 14-year-old girl put in her care with a hot knife and gas lighter in …
Read More »President Buhari Appoints Edmund Daukoru As Chairman Of NLNG
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the boards of Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) and Bonny Gas Transport Limited (BGT). A statement on Monday by Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, made the announcement. The new board of the NLNG will now be chaired by Edmund Daukoru. Members are …
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