Sixty students of a girl school were mysteriously poisoned in Rustaq district of northern Afghanistan’s Takhar province on Wednesday. Abdul Asir, Police Spokesman in the province, said the grade seven to 12 of Mir Mulai Girl School in Rustaq district were mysteriously poisoned around 10am. He said the affected students had been taken to hospital […]
Ekiti State Government has shut seven schools run by the Catholic Diocese of Ekiti for failure to pay the Education Development Levy. Under the new tax regime, pupils in primary and secondary schools are to pay N500 and N1,000, respectively. The catholic schools had requested the government to exclude its schools from the payment, a […]
A mason, Adeshina Adewuyi, has been tortured to death by a team of policemen who raided his community in Itoki, Ogun State. It was learnt that the policemen, numbering about seven and attached to the Agbado division, picked up the deceased around 4pm on Saturday and ordered him to enter a bus they brought to […]
Two months after the killings in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, over 7,000 displaced inhabitants have yet to return to the sacked communities. The Deputy Chairman, House of Representative Committee on Solid Minerals, Mr. Adamu Entonu, said this on Sunday. About 500 people were reportedly hacked to death in […]
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has attributed the unrelenting violence being perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen to the refusal of the Federal Government to arrest and punish the herders for the serial killings across the country. The renowned playwright described as a promotion of “undisputed impunity” the failure of the government to offer “legal, logical and […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized two houses belonging to Senator Nenadi Usman who was the Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation. It was learnt that the two houses seized were located in Abuja. The EFCC had arrested Usman last week after it was established that N2.5bn was paid into […]
President Muhammadu Buhari and leaders of the two chambers of the National Assembly on Tuesday night rose from a 10-minute meeting, saying all grey areas in the 2016 Budget had been resolved. The meeting which was held inside the the First Lady’s Conference Room started at about 9.20pm and ended around 9.30pm. Those who attended […]
Scores of protesting youths under the aegis of Occupy National Assembly, on Tuesday, besieged the premises of the federal parliament and demanded the immediate resignation of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. The youths made up of various Civil Society Organisations and students, were also demanding that the federal lawmakers should immediately revisit the grey areas […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed an application by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, and his co-accused, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu, asking for stay of proceedings in their ongoing trial. Justice James Tsoho ruled that the application for stay of proceedings lacked merit and ordered […]
The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission has announced the results of the chairmanship and councillorship polls held on Saturday in the 18 local government areas of the state. In the results announced, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party won all the chairmanship positions in the 18 local government councils of the state just as it won […]
The Diocesan Bishop, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Diocese of Egba, Ogun State, Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Adekunle, has described as shameful the attempt by the Senate to amend the Code of Conduct Tribunal Act. He said this in Abeokuta during a media briefing on the 2016 diocesan synod of the church which began on Friday […]
The All Progressives Congress has kept mum over allegations of political witch-hunting by Senate President Bukola Saraki. Saraki,in an article published in a national daily on Saturday,had attributed his trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal to political persecution for advising the party against fielding a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the run-up to the 2015 presidential […]
News reaching benconews.com this morning has it that Ekiti State Governor, Peter Ayodele Fayose has completed an ultra-modern cancer centre in honour of the late former deputy governor of the state, Funmi Olayinka. It would be recalled Funmi died three years ago after a protracted battle with cancer. But before her death was the death […]
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has berated the Peoples Democratic Party for zoning the party’s vice-presidential ticket to the South-East –ahead of the 2019 general election. Describing the zoning of the ticket to the region as a mockery, Okorocha said the PDP never remembered the South-East as fit enough to occupy the office of the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has continued his foreign trips in a bid to repair Nigeria’s reputation which was severely damaged by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said on Monday. Fashola, in an article titled, “PMB’s foreign trips — My takeaway,” also stated that Buhari’s intervention […]