The Osun State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Dr . Surajudeen Basiru , has said the state will head for court should the National Assembly pass the National Grazing Reserve (Establishment ) Bill 2016 into law .
Members of the National Expanded Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party met in Abuja on Monday night and vowed to rebuild the party ahead of the 2019 elections . They said that there was the need to rebuild the party in order to accommodate those that would be joining it from other political parties.
A 39 - year- old housewife, Mrs. Omotayo Salawudeen , has confessed that she covered the mouth of her husband , Alhaji Hakeem Salawudeen , 43 , while a 24 - year - old man she hired to kill him stabbed him to death .
Suspected fraudsters have created five Facebook accounts in the name of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police , Fatai Owoseni . As of 12 pm on Monday , a check by our correspondent indicated that two of the accounts bore Fatai Owoseni ; two others had CP Ajani Fatai Owoseni , while one bore Fatai A. Owoseni .
A local government worker , Mercy Oluwafeyibunmi , has been arrested by the police and detained at the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department ( Annex ) , Alagbon , Ikoyi, Lagos State . It was gathered that the woman, who had been in detention for two weeks , had also been admitted to the police clinic at Alagbon after falling ill .
Esegine Rickson, the detained 300 -level student of the University of Benin , has explained the circumstances surrounding the death of his church member to the Students ’ Union Government of the institution , saying he has no hand in the death . Rickson, a pastor, a bus driver and two others are being detained at the Edo State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department .
Tony Blair THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Monday raised the alarm over the recent visit of the former British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair to the Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir –el-Rufai, recalling that it was the same British godfathers’ military and diplomatic support to the core North that enabled Nigeria to defeat Biafra between 1967 and 1970.
Chief Rochas Okorocha Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state, Monday, said that the country did not need any restructuring. The Governor was quoted to have made the statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, at the 67th Annual Conference of the Broadcasting Corporation of Nigeria, BON, in Owerri.
A businessman, Augustine Anyia, yesterday, told an Agege customary court that his wife, Nneka, asked for N5 million, a car, N100,000 monthly allowance as pay off; as he begged the court to dissolve his seven-year-old marriage due to lack of care, lesbianism and threat to his life.
THE total value of capital imported into Nigeria in the first quarter of 2017 (Q1’17) was estimated to be $908.27 million, according to a report released, yesterday, by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
