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COVID-19: Lagos trains 480 technical colleges’ teachers, instructors on ICT

COVID-19: Lagos trains 480 technical colleges’ teachers, instructors on ICT

  Muritala Ayinla In a bid to enhance learning in technical colleges even amidst the new variant of COVID-19, the Lagos State Government has begun the training of 480 teachers, instructors on information and communication…

#EndSARS: Lagos releases White Paper, faults JPI report

#EndSARS: Lagos releases White Paper, faults JPI report

  …says ‘massacre’ claim based on speculations, assumptions …partially accepts recommendations on police operations, welfare Muritala Ayinla After weeks of expectations, the Lagos State Government finally released its much-publicised White Paper on the report of…

FGM most pervasive human rights violation in Nigeria-Umahi

FGM most pervasive human rights violation in Nigeria-Umahi

Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, yesterday described Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as the most pervasive human rights violation in Nigeria. He said it is the most widely practiced in Southern part of Nigeria.   He…

Man bags life jail for defiling 12-year-old

Man bags life jail for defiling 12-year-old

Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Lagos yesterday sentenced a middleaged artisan, Gbenga Olasunkanmi to life imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old customer’s daughter in his shop. Olasunkanmi was convicted…

Sponsored attacks on Correctional Centres in Nigeria

Sponsored attacks on Correctional Centres in Nigeria

Inwalomhe Donald   Of late, there had been series of sponsored attacks on military, police and correctional centres facilities.   The gory attacks on police stations and other government institutions are launched to strike fear…

Murdered policemen: Buhari laments bloodletting across country

Murdered policemen: Buhari laments bloodletting across country

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to a viral video of the gruesome murder of two policemen by separatist elements in the South-East on the social media, lamenting over what he called the horrific nature of…

Policeman, FRSC Special Marshal killed in Ekiti bank robbery

Policeman, FRSC Special Marshal killed in Ekiti bank robbery

Some dare devil armed robbers on Monday evening attacked a branch of an old generation Bank located in Aramoko Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti State.   A policeman and a special…

Accountant jailed 7 years for N7m fraud

Accountant jailed 7 years for N7m fraud

An Ondo State High Court has sentenced an accountant with the State Hospital Management Board to seven years imprisonment.   The accountant, Aminu Kamilu was convicted for perpetrating fraud to the tune of N7m. Kamilu…

Again, auto crash claims 2, injures 6 along Bauchi-Kano Highwa

Again, auto crash claims 2, injures 6 along Bauchi-Kano Highwa

Again, a lone auto crash has claimed the lives of two persons and injured six others in Durum, a community along Bauchi-Kano high way. Yusuf Abdullahi, Sector Commander Federal Road Safety Commission, Bauchi, FRSC who…

NURTW moves to avert bloody clashes across Lagos

NURTW moves to avert bloody clashes across Lagos

…may return aggrieved members across branches   Indication yesterday emerged that the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is making moves to avert bloody clashes across Lagos following urgent intervention into what was largely…