The Wole Soyinka Centre For Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ has trained 21 Journalists and Civil Society Organizations, CSOs on reporting women. The program titled, ‘Report Women: Make it Happen,’ was held on Friday at the centre’s office on Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos State as part of its effort to expose media practitioners and women advocates to…
Group Calls For Sanction Against PDP, APC
The Center for Social Justice has alleged that both the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, have violated the provisions of the 2010 Electoral Act on campaign funding. Eze Onyekpere, Lead Director of the organisation, on Monday, said both parties have so far spent at least N4.97bn on publicity, to…
Stop Inducing Electorate With Money- Oyintiloye
Nigerian politicians have been asked to refrain from inducing voters with material items and cash ahead of this year’s general elections. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate in Obokun Owa constituency, Osun State, made the call while delivering a speech at the 40th Annual Synod of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Diocese of…
NDLEA Impounds 810.1kg of Cannabis in Lagos
Officers of the Lagos State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have impounded compressed dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis sativa weighing 810.1kilogrammes. The seizures were made during raid operation conducted within the metropolis. The first consignment of the drug weighing 658.8 kilogrammes believed to have been imported from Ghana…
NDLEA Impounds 810.1kg of Cannabis in Lagos
Officers of the Lagos State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have impounded compressed dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis sativa weighing 810.1kilogrammes. The seizures were made during raid operation conducted within the metropolis. The first consignment of the drug weighing 658.8 kilogrammes believed to have been imported from Ghana was…
Court Orders T.B Joshua To Appear Before Coroner
The Lagos State High Court presided over by Justice Lateefa Okunnu has ruled that the Coroner inquest into the cause of the collapsed six-storey building of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, has the legal right to issue witness summon on T.B Joshua, head of the church to testify on the matter. The…
Widow, Children Caught With 3-Years-Old Corpse
Lagos command of the Nigeria Police has arrested one Joy Shittu, a widow and her two daughters simply identified as Toyin and Aisha for unlawfully hiding the corpse of their late father, Jimoh Shittu inside their house on Olaitan Mustapha, off Clem road, Ijaiye, Ojokoro, Lagos. According to a police source, the widow claimed…
Desperate Politicians Violate Abuja Peace Accord – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan says some desperate politicians have violated the Abuja peace accord by hiring and brainwashing young people to perpetrate violence in the country. Jonathan recalled his experience in Katsina State when his convoy was stoned by some hoodlums on his reelection campaign to the state, and lamented that most of the hoodlums are…
Couple Arraigned For Fraud
The Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has charged Osinachi Nwachukwu and Ifeyinwa Nwachukwu to a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital for an offense bordering on fraud. The couple is facing a 3-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining the sum of N800, 000 by false pretence from one Charles…
Building Collapse: Court To Decide On T.B. Joshua’s Application
An objection challenging the witness summons served on Prophet Temitope Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN by a Coroner seeking to unveil the cause of the collapse of a six-storey building belonging to the church would be decided on March 6, 2015. The general Overseer wants the court to determine whether…
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