Category: City Beat

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Recovered $4.2,million loot belongs to Delta, Says Falana

  Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the loot recovered from James Ibori, former governor of Delta, should be returned to the source, which is...

IWD: IWOGRA trains women on Cross-Communities Solidarity

  Anthonia Duru In commemoration of 2021 International Women’s Day (IWD), the Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA), a non-governmental...

EFCC:Court jails ex-dangote manager, Ttwo others for $32,000 insurance fraud

  The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of the trio of Raymond Akanolu, a former...

20 ships discharge petroleum products, other items at Lagos ports

  The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said 20 ships at the Lagos ports were discharging bulk wheat, bulk gypsum, general cargo, frozen fish, container, butane gas...

I had no intercourse for 40 years before I was raped-97 yr woman

A 97-year-old woman from Yobe who was raped about a month ago has admitted to being sex starved as she said she had not had sex for over 40 years until she was raped...

Daddy Freeze is a wife beater, Says ex-wife

The controversial On-Air Personality, OAP, Ifedayo Olarinde, a.k.a Daddy Freeze has been smeared with another tag of being a wife beater despite his larger than life...

We ‘bribed ‘ bandits seven bags of rice to escape death -Zamfara customs

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has explained how operatives offered bandits seven bags of seized rice to save themselves from bandits. A senior official of the...

SEC holds 5th budget seminar

  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to host the 2021 edition of Budget Seminar virtually on March 11th 2021. The theme of the event...

NCC clamps down on street vendors of pirated books, other copyright works in Abuja

The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has intensified efforts at checking street trading of pirated books, musical works and movies in Abuja FCT and other states of...

Cameroon repatriates 5,000 Nigerian refugees

  Monday marked a new beginning for Nigerian refugees who fled to Cameroon due to Boko Haram insurgency as they began returning to their homeland in a voluntary...