Month: January 2023

The Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed that one person was killed and one other injured in Akuyam, Misau Local Government Area, when the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Sadique Abubakar, and his team visited the area to campaign. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP

Reading is good for you because it improves your focus, memory, empathy, and communication skills. It can reduce stress, improve your mental health, and help you live longer. Reading also allows you to learn new things to help you succeed in your work and relationships. By reading, one becomes a complete man. One develops a

NIGERIA’S prisons are overrunning with inmates. While thousands of them are awaiting trial inmates, others are either serving their jail terms or have been sentenced to death. As of July 2022, the number of inmates on death row in custodial centres across the country was approximated at 3,145. The Nigerian Correctional Service noted that 3,084

In his book, “This animal called man,” published after her left prison in 1998, the former military Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo, who later became a democratically elected president of Nigeria, concluded that man is a contradiction, a complex and unique being that probably defies definition. Obasanjo examined man, in his social, economic and

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded seven men in the Makurdi Custodial Centre for allegedly kidnapping the Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Mr Ekpe Ogbu, on Ado/Otukpo Road. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the defendants — Nuhu Musa, Mohammed Danjuma, Yunusa Usman, Abubakar Usman, Usman Saleh, Hamza Sani

Former United States President Barrack Obama said, “Africa needs strong institutions, not strong men.” The thrust of the book, ‘Why Nations Fail’ by Daron Acemoglu et al summarised that “the success of developed countries is based on their strong institutions.” African nations are thus advised to build strong institutions though African countries were left with

A 22-year-old baker, David Sunny, has demanded compensation after he was allegedly tortured by some members of the Oodua People’s Congress after N3.8m was stolen from a bakery where he worked. PUNCH Metro gathered that Sunny worked with the bakery in a supermarket, Unique Superstores, in the Owode-Ede area of Osun State. He was said

• 23 containers claimed 27 lives in two years At least one person was killed and several others were injured on Tuesday when a petrol-laden tanker crushed three tricycles in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the tanker, with number plate JJJ 125, was descending a sloppy section of the road

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned two employees of a construction company, Encon International Limited, Peter Musa, a security guard, and Friday Iniekem, an accountant, over the theft of 40 units of equipment valued at N20m. The accountant and security guard were arraigned before Magistrate O. Y. Adufope of the Yaba Magistrates’ Court on

An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded a Lagos auto dealer, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, over the death of his wife, Abimbola Martins-Ogbonna. The court remanded Ikechukwu  following legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions indicating that he should be charged with involuntary manslaughter. While reading out the DPP advice, Magistrate Kafayat Tella stated that