Beat Your Partner/spouse, Spend 3 Years In Jail — Nigerian Government Sends Strong Warning The Niger State Government has warned that from now on, anyone who beats his or her spouse to a pulp in the state will be committed to a prison term by a court of competent jurisdiction and to a term of not less than three years in jail. Speaking to Newsmen on S3xual Exploitation and Abuse/Sexual Harassment (SEASH) in Minna, the Director, Planning Research and Statistics, Niger State Ministry of Women Affairs, Mrs Mary Yisa, stated that the state now has robust legal, policy, and institutional…
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EXPOSED: How Senior Nigerian Army Officers Engage In Oil Theft In Niger Delta A dismissed Nigerian soldier has accused the Nigerian Army high command of being behind oil theft in the Niger Delta region. The soldier who was last attached to 2 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Uyo, Akwa Ibom disclosed this. He and others were in 2022 sentenced to nine years in prison “over illegal duty” by a court-martial at the 6 Division headquarters in Port Harcourt in 2022. They were alleged to have abandoned their duty location and embarked on illegal patrols along Kilometre 45 in Abonnema,…
Akpabio To NOA: Stop Circulating Wrong National Anthem The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has called out the National Orientation Agency for teaching Nigerians the wrong version of the newly adopted old National Anthem. Akpabio noted that what the agency was circulating was different from the New National Anthem approved by the Senate. After deliberations, the Senate went into executive sessions for over two hours, after which it adjourned plenary to July 2. Before the Senate ended the plenary, Akpabio requested that the Senate recite the first stanza of the new National Anthem. While the lawmakers recited the anthem, the Senate…
BREAKING: NSCDC Operative Dies In Nigerian Police Custody ‘Over Torture’ Jabila Kammangar, an operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has died in police custody of the Rivers State Police Command. Kammangar’s death is coming a few days after he was arrested and paraded by the Rivers State Police Command for alleged armed robbery, hijacking of food trucks and diverting them to other locations. The spokesperson for the Command, Grace Iringe-Koko had stated that the deceased and four soldiers identified as West Isaac, Abdul Musa, Mgbe Geoffrey, Innocent Okwoli were arrested on May 25, 2024, following a…
Nigerian Premier League Fines Enyimba Club N10million The Nigeria Premier Football League has fined Enyimba football club N10 million for destructing Match Day 35 Fixture between the club and Rangers Int’l FC held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu, on June 9, 2024. The league also awarded three points, three goals to Enugu Rangers FC as part of punishment for the destructing the match, which was aired live. The fine contained in Form 16, summary jurisdiction notice addressed to Enyimba Int’l FC dated June 10, 2024, and signed by Chief Executive Officer of the League Management Company Davidson Owumi. Upon…
BREAKING: Missing Malawi VP’s Plane Found With No Survivor Malawian searchers have found the wreckage of a plane that was carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima, a military source said Tuesday, a day after the aircraft went missing in bad weather. The military plane carrying Chilima, 51, and nine others disappeared on Monday after it failed to land in the northern city of Mzuzu due to poor visibility and was told to return to the capital, Lilongwe and there was no survivor in the wreckage. Photographs shared with AFP by a member of the military rescue team showed army personnel standing…
FG Summons NFF Over Super Eagles’ Woeful Outing In World Cup Qualifiers John Enoh, the Nigeria Minister of Sports Development, has requested a thorough technical report from the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) in response to the Super Eagles’ disappointing performance during the June FIFA window. The Super Eagles secured only one point from a possible six, drawing 1-1 with South Africa in Uyo and losing 2-1 to Benin Republic in Abidjan in their third and fourth games of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying series. These results leave the Super Eagles with just three points from a possible twelve in…
Police Sends Strong Warning To Nigerians Over June 12 Democracy Day The Anambra State Police Command has warned residents of the state against engaging in any group or mass protest on Wednesday to disrupt Nigeria’s Democracy Day celebration. The command issued the warning in a statement issued on Tuesday by its Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, saying that the warning became necessary based on the information and intelligent report of persons and groups mobilising for a protest on Wednesday. This comes as the Take It Back Movement (TIB), African Action Congress party (AAC), Joint Action Front (JAF), Education Rights…
Nigerian Judges To Go On Vacation The Federal High Court has announced the annual vacation for its judges. The court’s spokesperson, Catherine Christopher, said in a statement on Tuesday that the vacation commences from July 23 to September 13. Chief Justice John Tsoho in the statement said the vacation was taking effect by the provisions of Order 46, Rule 4 (d) of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2019. The CJ asserted that the vacation would help the “judges to enjoy their well-deserved rest and to prepare for the tasks and activities of the New Legal year.” He, however,…
Man Kill Pregnant Woman Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Man Kill Pregnant Woman A man in Denmark has been sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention after stabbing a heavily pregnant woman to death in 2016, the district court in Glostrup announced the sentence. The now 30-year-old man is said to have stabbed the woman 11 times with a knife in a park near Copenhagen and then cut off a piece of her nose, according to the court’s statement. The man denied the crime and his defence lawyer said that he would appeal against the judgement. The murder…