Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, capping the former socialite’s sordid fall from grace.
The Oxford-educated daughter of the late British press baron Robert Maxwell appeared not to react as…
Bandits in the early hours of Tuesday invaded Adiya farm located behind Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto , carting away no fewer than 200 cows and 180 rams.
The farm which is 10 kilometres from Sokoto metropolis is owned by a…
The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, passed five bills from the House of Representatives for concurrence.
The bills include Public Enterprises (Privatization and Commercialization) Act (Repeal & Enactment) Bill, 2022; and Orthopaedic Hospitals Management Board Act (Amendment) Bill, 2022.
Others are the Chartered Institute of…
An air conditioner installer, Pelumi Oluwatimileyin Sunday and three others have been jailed by the Federal High Court in Ilorin, over offences bordering on cybercrime.
The three other convicts are Uloko George Ojonugwa, a student of Federal University, Lokoja; Godspower Fatodun Sesan, from…
An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has discharged and acquitted three persons Ganiyu Rosak (22) Oluwole Idowu (22 and Ojo Ayomide (20) who were arraigned before Justice Adekunle Adeleye for alleged armed robbery and unlawful possession of firearms.
The charge claimed…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit seeking to nullify Section 257(2)&(3) of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo held that there was no inconsistency in Section 257(2)&(3) of the PIA and Section 36(1) and…
The Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) Lagos on Tuesday brought an Ibadan-based businessman, Oluwabukola Odeleye to the Federal High Court in Lagos in connection with alleged N816million fraud and forgery.
It arraigned Odeleye and his firm, Beedel Strategic Investment Company Limited, before Justice…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the request for an interim order to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples…
President Muhammadu Buhari has joined efforts to save the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from losing majority seats in the National Assembly by meeting with some aggrieved senators at the Presidential Villa.
There were fears of the mass exodus of Senators after many…
The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a new retirement age for National Assembly staff, as well as their counterparts in States Houses of Assembly, to 65 years of age and 40 years of service, whichever comes first.
The Bill was listed…