An Ikeja Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court on Friday sentenced a butcher, Jelili Moshood, to 14 years imprisonment for attempting to rape a vulnerable 78-year-old woman suffering from dementia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Moshood was sentenced  to 14 years imprisonment by Justice Rahman Oshodi, following his …

ORGANIZED Labour has disclosed the reasons behind the demand for N250,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country. TUC President Festus Osifo, while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Friday, said: “We felt that with the current economic hardship and the difficulty in the land, the sum …

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has reserved judgement in the fundamental human rights suit filed by the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero. The presiding judge, Justice Simon Amobeda, reserved judgement following a heated argument between counsels. The applicant, Ado Bayero, filed a motion ex parte, seeking …

THE Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of Telecom Satellites Limited (TStv), Bright Echefu, has been arraigned along with three others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on a nine-count money laundering charges. The arraignment took place last Thursday. Count six of the charges alleged that Echefu …

Olumide Akpata, governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Edo State, has accused supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of destroying his campaign billboards. Akpata said the action was a desperate attempt to silence his party’s message of hope and positive change for the state. In a statement …

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned three men before an Ikeja Special Offenses Court for allegedly stealing the sum of N3.5 billion from Access Bank. Newsextra24 reports that the three men are Michael Igbomins, David Onyeike and Moses Iruolaje, who are arraigned on two counts of stealing …

The University of Lagos, UNILAG, has stopped admission into two departments: biochemistry and petroleum & gas engineering. This was contained in a statement endorsed by the registrar, Mrs. Olakunle Makinde. Though the university did not state the reasons for the action, it advised admission seekers to note that there would …

THE naira, on Friday, June 7, 2024, recorded a loss at the official market, trading at N1,483.99 to the dollar. Data from the official trading platform of the FMDQ Exchange, a platform that oversees the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM), revealed that the naira lost N2.50. This represents a …

THE US judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush-money case in New York City has written a letter to prosecutors and the former president’s defence team about a Facebook post in which a person claims to have known the jury’s decision before it became public. Justice Juan Merchan’s letter says that on …

THE World Bank has mandated the hiring of a security consultant to address pervasive insecurity issues affecting its $1.2 billion loan project in Nigeria. The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project aims to improve secondary education opportunities among girls in targeted areas but faces significant challenges due …