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The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced a 79-year-old carpenter, Olagbade Jeremiah, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution was able to prove the offence of defilement against the convict without reasonable doubt. Jeremiah was arraigned on a […]
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has advised power distribution companies (DisCos) to design a quick response mechanism to address customers’ complaints within their networks. The FCCPC acting executive chairman, Adamu Abdullah, gave the advice recently in Lagos at the end of a four-day one-stop-shop for addressing billing, metering, transformer, connection, disconnection, customer […]
The Federal Government said it will begin the distribution of grains nationwide to curb hardship in the country. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Senator Abubakar Kyari disclosed this in a statement via his official X handle on Monday. Dear Fellow Nigerians, In these trying times, I extend my sincere compassion to those affected by […]
Despite the widespread blackout and the worsening state of electricity supply in Nigeria, the latest figures on the daily load summary of power distribution companies indicate that the firms failed to distribute about 1,769.91 megawatts of electricity between February 1 and 14, 2024. Data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria, obtained in Abuja on Monday, […]
A Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, on Monday filed a N10bn suit before the Federal High Court in Lagos against the Nigerian Communications Commission, its Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Communication Commission, Dr Aminu Maida, for alleged inconvenience, discomfort, injury and loss of business opportunities by Nigerians due to the blocking of their lines […]
