A Grade 1 Area Court in Kado, Abuja on Tuesday handed 25 year-old Disc Jockey, Emmanuel Nelson an 8 months jail term for stealing an iPad valued at N65,000.
The presiding judge , Alhaji Mohammed Ado, however, gave the convict an option of N8, 000 fine, with a warning to stay away from crime.
Emmanuel Nelson of Kado Kuchi Village, Abuja, was convicted on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and stealing.
He pleaded guilty to the charges and...
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed as untrue, a publication by the UK Sun that he owns a £15m property in the United Kingdom.
Kelvin MacKenzie, a former Editor of the UK Sun had claimed in his weekly Saturday column that Jonathan had acquired a property in Weybridge, Surrey.
“I hear the aptly named Goodluck Jonathan, the former President of oil-rich Nigeria, has bought a 12,000 square foot house on the ultra-expensive and well protected...
The Plateau G-17 Youths for Peace and Progress Forum has warned the state government against donating any portion of Plateau land for grazing purposes.
The youths during a protest at the Plateau State Government House on Monday, urged Governor Simon Lalong to delist the state from the states said to have donated land for grazing reserves in the country.
The leader of the protesters, Mr. Dachung Bagos, warned the governor to be careful not to ...
Monday, 13 June 2016
The presidency disclosed on Monday the newly launched job portal of the Federal Government, N-Power. gov.ng, recorded over 400,000 successful registrations within its first 36 hours of operation.
The disclosure was made by the Job Creation Unit of the Presidency.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation, Mr. Afolabi Imoukhuede, who works in the office of Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo said in a statement that ; “We have been...
“The committee finds Giwa FC in breach of Rule B13.28 of the NPFL Frame Work and Rules which states that ‘if a club fails to honour three matches cumulatively within the League season without an acceptable reason to the LMC such a club shall be expelled from the League and its matches played and unplayed shall be cancelled."
That came from the Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF after its meeting in Abuja on Monday, during...
Apparently apprehensive that the planned dialogue on the Niger Delta crisis is under threat of being hijacked by the political class, the Niger Delta Avengers have issued a fresh warning to President Muhammadu Buhari and the oil firms operating in the region.
In a statement issued on Monday by spokesman Brig-Gen Mudoch Aginibo, the NDA warned that they could go back on their promise not to take lives if their demands were not met.
“The issues of...
The Dangote Foundation confirmed in Maiduguri on Monday that Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in Borno State will get 106 trucks of foodstuff during the Ramadan fast.
Hajiya Zouwaira Yousif said at the launching of the distribution of the items to the IDPs in Maiduguri that about 30,000 IDPs are expected to benefit from the programme which is aimed at providing succour to the displaced persons who are victims of terrorism.
“The whole exercise...
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