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The National Industrial Court on Thursday ordered Covenant University, Ota to pay its former staff Dr. Adekunle Oyeyemi the sum of N10.3 million as general damages, terminal benefit and salary. The judge, Justice Ayodele Obaseki-Osaghae, delivering judgment also declared that the employment termination of the claimant’s employment as wrongful and …

A Young Man simply identified as Alao has allegedly committed suicide in Ogidi, Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, Newsextra24 Reports. From The Information Gathered By Newsextra24 , His lifeless body was found dangling from the roof of an uncompleted building on Wednesday, October 13. A Video posted …

For about two weeks, heaps of refuse have dotted medians of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, just as drums have been overflowing with litter. Among other routes, persons plying Orita to Challenge, Bode to Agodi Gate, Aleshinloye to Dugbe, Tollgate to Ojoo, Mokola to Sango, Dugbe to Molete, have in …

The South African Police Service (SAPS) members have set upon Somali nationals’ shops in the coastal city of Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) after an eruption of violence saw several minibus taxis going up in flames on Wednesday. The following day (Thursday) heavily-armed police went into the town to raid Somali …

South-East pain spreads to Lagos, IPOB sit-at-home becomes Monday of horror, transporters, traders count losses, blood flows in Igboland Although a separatist group in the South-East, the Indigenous People of Biafra, has suspended every Monday sit-at-home it ordered in the zone, operators of buses, which ply Lagos-South-East lament effects of …

The Vice-President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has called for the assistance of orphans across the country, saying there is a need to serve humanity. Osinbajo noted that being an orphan does not determine the greatness of a child’s future. He said many great men in Nigeria and the world …

About a year after #EndSARS protests were held in major Nigerian cities, cases of police brutality are still becoming a gory staple daily in the lives of young people in Africa’s biggest economy. For Oluwaferanmi Moses, a first-year student, studying Mechanical Engineering at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), his experience …

The police in Enugu state have arrested a 60-year-old man simply identified as Ikechukwu, for allegedly killing his son in Ogbozinne-Ndiagu Akpugo community, in the Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state on Thursday, October 14. The father of four reportedly killed his son on Thursday on the claim …

Police operatives from Ipaja Division in Lagos have rescued two children reportedly locked inside an empty water drum by their father for eating a neighbour’s food having been starved and locked inside the house for the whole day. Newsextra24 reports that the incident happened at Lawani Ode Palace, Oke Odo …

A South African woman has been left traumatised after she was kidnapped and raped for four days by two men she claimed to be Nigerians. The 35-year-old mom of three from Gugulethu, Cape Town, said she received a call inviting her for a job interview in Tyger Valley Mall last Monday …