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The Benue State High Court in Makurdi, on Thursday, acquitted Andrew Ogbuja, a lecturer at the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, of raping and causing the death of Ochanya Ogbanje, a 13-year-old schoolgirl in 2018. The decision contradicts another Thursday’s verdict of the Federal High Court in Makurdi, in a separate case, which convicted Mr Ogbuja’s wife for negligence over the child, …

*Orders defendant to open defence Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has dismissed the ‘No case submission’ and preliminary objection of Professor Ignatius Uduk of University of Uyo, UNIUYO, who is standing trial for alleged electoral fraud during the 2019 general elections. The Court presided over by Justice Bassey Nkanang, therefore ordered the accused person (defendant) to open …

Kenya is holding a state funeral on Friday for former president Mwai Kibaki, who died aged 90 last week and whose decade in power was marked by economic revival as well as scandal and violence. Kibaki was the third head of state in Kenya’s history, serving from December 2002 to April 2013 following the 20-year authoritarian regime of Daniel arap …

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has threatened to shut down all polytechnics in Nigeria by next week, if the Federal Government fails to meet up with its demands. This is coming barely a month after the union gave an ultimatum to the Federal Government over their demands. Some of the union’s demands include requests for revitalisation funds for the sector, …

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II,  yesterday said  the credentials of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo  are making  other contestants to shiver. The Oba said this when Osinbajo visited him in his palace in Benin, the Edo State capital,  to meet with delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the party’s presidential primary election where he hoped to get the presidential ticket of …

Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday said he was well equipped to lead the country due to the exposure he has had working with his current principal, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). File: Osinbajo, Buhari He said working closely with Buhari had exposed him to critical decisions and programmes about Nigeria. Osinbajo stated this at the palace …

The terrorists that kidnapped passengers of the AK9 Abuja-Kaduna bound train have released the picture of the newly born girl delivered by one of the pregnant women taken hostage. The mother of the baby was said to be eight-month pregnant before she and 62 others were abducted by the terrorists on the Abuja-Kaduna train on March 28, 2022. Of the …

Nigerians, home and abroad have the same burden and share the same desire to see “our country working more effectively and becoming truly greater by harnessing all of the existing potentials and really transform the nation.” Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) expressed this view during a meeting on Wednesday with a delegation from the US-based Association of Nigerian Physicians in …

· Recover Arms, Ammunition, As IGP Harps on Technology-Driven Policing in Nigeria By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja, Nigeria – Operatives of the Force Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT) have arrested four notorious arm dealers and recovered 57 AK47 rifles and a large catchment of ammunition in Jos, Plateau State and from other locations across the country. The suspects, Hamza …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday, handed over the defunct Edo College of Education, Ekiadolor to the Federal Government, imploring the government to rename the citadel of learning after the executive secretary of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and one-time Commissioner for Education in old Bendel State, Chief Tayo Akpata. Obaseki handed over the institution to the …