If armed robber gets death sentence, what of corrupt govt official?

A Rivers-based lawyer, Mr Abdulkareem Dauda, has said that an amendment to the law governing corruption to impose death penalty on convicted corrupt government officials and others was justifiable and desirable.

Dauda said this in an interview with , Tuesday, in Abuja.

5 killed as cultists unleash mayhem in Lagos

Suspected cultist have reportedly killed five persons in different areas of Igbo-Elerin, Lagos State. The cultist allegedly went on rampage after a rival gang weekend shot their leader, simply identified as Skay, at Aladesanmi Street at 8:00pm last Thursday.

APC decries PDP’s smear campaign against the Judiciary

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has expressed shock over the extent of the smear campaign launched by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the Nigerian judiciary in view of recent court rulings that appear not to favour the PDP and its candidates at the various election petition tribunals especially those of Akwa Ibom and Rivers states.

Obasanjo is an affliction we must learn to endure – Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has come hard on former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, describing the latter as an overgrown child of circumstance and “an infliction that those of us who share the same era and nation space must learn to endure.”

Graduate arrested for hacking into bank’s customers accounts

One Babatunde Fatai, a graduate of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, has been arrested by the state Police Command for various internet crimes including hacking into bank accounts of people in and outside Nigeria.

Who is the next Ooni of Ile-Ife?

There is no doubt that all past Oonis specifically from the time of Oranmiyan, 6th Ooni of Ife have been men of means, glamour and commanding personality. Oranmiyan was a warrior and reputed to be a great administrator with tremendous influence across Yorubaland.

Enugu sex hawker dies after marathon with customers

THE  Enugu State Police command through operatives of the Udenu Division has commenced investigations into an alleged incident of murder in which a commercial sex worker was allegedly killed in a brothel after a marathon sex with a customer.