Trader tortures step daughters with hot knife in Lagos
A 10-year-old girl, Vera, and her younger sister, Favour, five, are grappling with injuries inflicted on them by their stepmother. The woman, Chidima Nnachi, reportedly beat up Vera, rubbed pepper on her eyes and burned her back with a hot knife. She also reportedly injured Favour on the forehead and inserted pepper in her eyes […]
Reasons why Jacob Zuma resigned
South African President Jacob Zuma resigned on Wednesday as the ruling ANC party finally turned against him after nine years of corruption scandals, economic slowdown and falling popularity. Zuma railed against the African National Congress (ANC) for “recalling” him from office and threatening to oust him via a parliamentary no-confidence vote due on Thursday. In a […]
Fearing Adverse Impact on Buhari, 9 APC Senators Oppose Change in Election Order
Fearing the amendment to Electoral Act, 2010 and Electoral (Amendment) Act 2015, reordering the sequence of 2019 general election would adversely affect the chances of President Muhammadu Buhari, nine All Progressives Congress (APC) senators, on Wednesday, walked out on the Senate, vowing never to allow the alteration to stand. The aggrieved senators stormed out of […]
Buhari Too Should Join Retirees’ Club, PDP Tells Tinubu
The Peoples Democratic Party says the counsel by the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), should quit politics and join the retirees’ club, best suits President Muhammadu Buhari. The party said Tinubu’s stance completely vindicated the positions of Obasanjo and […]
NITRA Hosts Data Centre Icons At Breakfast Meeting
The Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) will on Friday, February 16 host the Chief Executive Officers of Nigeria’s leading Data Centre Service providers- MDXi Data Centre, Medallion Communications, and Rack Centre at the February 2018 Edition of her monthly interactive session with ICT industry helmsmen tagged: ‘Breakfast Meeting With The CEO.’ The CEOs, Gbenga […]
We Recorded Over N1 Trillion On *894 Quick Banking Channel- FirstBank
First Bank of Nigeria Limited says it has recorded over N1 Trillion via its 894 quick banking, a USSD based channel that enables customers to access banking services using any type of phone and without data/internet. The 894 banking scheme, which is the fastest growing USSD scheme in the market, grew by about 250% in […]
Mane Hits Hat-Trick As Liverpool Crush Toothless Porto
Sadio Mane scored a brilliant treble as Liverpool romped to a 5-0 thrashing of Porto at the Estadio do Dragao on Wednesday to march towards the Champions League quarter-finals. Mane fired the away side ahead in the first leg of the last-16 clash, before Mohamed Salah’s audacious finish for his 30th goal of the season […]
Ronaldo Scores Twice As Real Madrid Take Control Against PSG
Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Real Madrid came from behind to stun Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in the first leg of their heavyweight Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday. Ronaldo scored his 100th Champions League goal for title-holders Real from the penalty spot late in the first half to cancel out Adrien Rabiot’s opener for the […]
Ortom Appears Before Senate Panel Probing Benue Killings
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, is currently before the Senate Panel Investigating the killings in the state. The Committee had on Tuesday last week presented a report of its investigation into the failure of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of the January killings in Benue State. In […]
$350m power fund not missing – Adeosun, Fashola
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; and the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Tuesday, denied the alleged diversion of $350m belonging to the Nigerian Electricity Bulk Trading Company domiciled in the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority. The NSIA also said the $350m it was managing for the NBET had grown to […]
