The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Monday, September 30, raided some supermarkets and open shops in some parts of Abuja and seized counterfeit items worth N37 million. The agency said in a statement posted on its X handle on Tuesday that during the operation which was based on…
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has announced that candidates will now be required to pay N50,000 for the reprinting of certificates. This was disclosed by NECO Registrar Dantani Wushishi in a statement released in Minna, Niger State. “The N50,000 fee for certificate reprints is subject to periodic review,” Wushishi emphasized in the statement.…
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested at least five persons in connection with the m8rder of a fisherman named Segun Sikiru in the Iwopin town of the Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area. It was gathered that the suspects allegedly k!lled the victim with a bamboo stick and discarded his body in a…
The Niger state Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) said it has so far rescued 150 out of about 300 passengers involved in a boat mishap in Gabjibo community of Mokwa Local Government Area of the state. The Director -General of NSEMA, Alhaji Abdullahi Baba-Arah, made this known in a statement in Minna on Wednesday,October 2.…
A Kwara State Magistrate Court has sentenced a teenage boy to one year imprisonment for arson and theft. It will be recalled that the teenage boy, Olawumi Ayomide, set a building on fire in Ilorin after stealing items belonging to the occupants. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State Command, arraigned Ayomide…
Music mogul, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ attorney is planning to file a third appeal for his release from prison a fortnight after his arrest. According to court documents obtained by People on Monday, Alexandra Shapiro from Combs’ legal team filed a notice to appeal after Combs was denied bail two times.The music mogul was arrested on…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a former governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, and a former Permanent Secretary of the Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state, Bello Yero, before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja for fraud. Ishaku and Yero are…
France forward Ousmane Dembélé has been left out of Paris Saint-Germain’s squad for their Champions League showdown against Arsenal on Tuesday, October 1, a source close to the club confirmed to AFP. The omission of Dembélé is reportedly not due to injury but is a decision made by head coach Luis Enrique, possibly as…
Michael Anugwa, deputy controller of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), says he was not suspended by the service. Anugwa is the officer in charge of Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Kiri-kiri, Lagos state, where Idris Okuneye, a popular crossdresser better known as Bobrisky, served his time While speaking at the House of Representatives investigation…
One Shehu Usman on Monday September 30th dragged his niece and sister in-law Hauwa’u Muhammad and Jamila Kasim respectively to a Shari’a court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State over alleged intimidation of his wife. The defendants are being charged with intent insult, intimidation and trespass. Mr Usman, a resident of Unguwan Shanu…
