How Night Guards Robbed, Raped Woman Inside Ibadan Mosque

 

The Oyo State Police Command on Tuesday paraded two men who allegedly raped a woman inside a mosque. 

The suspects, Olajide Olakanmi and Olanrewaju Taiwo, are both night watchmen in a filling station in Ibadan, the state capital.

They were said to have waylaid a woman, dispossessed her of her belongings before having forceful canal knowledge of her.

Dogara - The More Money We Spend On the Power Sector, the More Darkness We Attract

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has queried why the Nigerian government has spent huge funds on the power sector and gotten very little results.  

Speaking at a two-day stakeholders interactive workshop on the Nigerian power sector on Tuesday, Dogara said, ''Perhaps the most important question is what happened to the N2.74 trillion spent on the sector from 1999-2015? Why is it that the more we spend on the power sector, the more darkness we attract?” he asked.

Pastor Tunde Bakare - Buhari Told Me He Wanted a VP That Can Govern Nigeria If He Dies in Office

 

Pastor Tunde Bakare has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari picked Yemi Osinbajo as his Vice President because he wanted someone who will be able to govern Nigeria if he dies. 

According to THE CABLE, addressing his congregants in Latter Rain Assembly Ogba, Lagos, last month, Bakare said Buhari rejected former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s choice of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance.

Appeal Court Upholds Use of Hijab in Lagos Public Schools

The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, Lagos State Area Unit has hailed the Appeal Court for throwing out a motion seeking an injunction to stop the use of Hijab in the state. 

The Court on Tuesday struck out the motion for stay of execution, filed by the Lagos State Government.

12,000 Nigerians Likely To Be Deported From Germany

More than 12,000 Nigerian asylum seekers in Germany may likely be deported from the European nation next year, a German official said on Tuesday, according to The Nation newspaper.

The country’s Global Head of programme, Migration and Development, Dr. Ralf Sanftenberg, said the Nigerians will be denied asylum status by German government.

Sanftenberg spoke when he visited the Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa.

Ogun To Provide Free Treatment To Accident Victims Once Bill Is Passed

Mr Suraj Adekunbi, the Speaker of Ogun House of Assembly, says accident victims within the state will soon enjoy free medical care when the bill seeking to provide the fund for road accident victims is passed into law.

Adekunbi said this on Tuesday at a stakeholders forum on a bill for a law to provide the fund for road accident victims emergency treatment through the purchase of “Road Accident Emergency Fund” emblem by all vehicles plying the state.

FIFA Bans Giwa, Others For 5 Years

The World Governing Football body, FIFA’s  Disciplinary Committee has  insisted on a worldwide  extension of sanctions imposed by the Nigerian Football Federation’s (NFF) Disciplinary Committee on 12 May 2016 against Christopher Giwa, Muazu Suleyman, Yahaya Adama, Sani Fema and Johnson Effiong for breaches of the NFF Statutes and the FIFA Code of Ethics. The five-year ban on all the officials  will have an immediate  worldwide effect.