Month: March 2024

Carpenter bags life jail for sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl

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 […]

FCCPC Tasks DisCos On Quick Responses To Customers’ Complaints

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 […]

Hardship: FG to begin nationwide distribution of grains

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 […]

Discos reject 1,769MW of electricity amid widespread blackout

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, […]

SIM-NIN: NCC defends blocking of phone lines, lawyer slams N10bn suit

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 […]

High cost of cement: Nigerians opt for container houses

As the economic downturn continues, all areas of Nigerian lives and plans are also striving to grapple with the situation, as areas like housing and rent are also being affected. Nigerians are used to building with cement, but now have to go for other alternatives, as the price of cement is now on the high […]

How kidnappers used my son to steal two bags of rice — Pastor

A 12-year old Junior Secondary School (JSS-2) student, (name withheld), who was allegedly used to steal two bags of rice by suspected kidnappers has been found. His father, Pastor Joshua Ogbonna told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos that suspected kidnappers allegedly took his son and used him to steal two […]

Hike in cement price has rendered us jobless – Artisans, labourers cry out

Artisans, labourers, and suppliers of sand, gravel and other items in the construction industry in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State have lamented that the hike in price of cement has rendered them jobless and their businesses prostrate. eaffected several sectors of the economy, including construction, sending most people out of business. According to them, […]

Police probe baby burnt to death in Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command has begun an investigation into the circumstances leading to a three-year-old simply identified as Michael burning to death when a fire resulting from a melted candle razed down their compound at Olorunsogo Street, Ejigbo, in Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred at about 11:10 p.m. on Saturday. Our […]

SIM-NIN linkage: Blocked lines rise to 40 million

No fewer than 40 million telephone lines were barred by telecommunication operators over the weekend following the expiration of the February 28, 2024 deadline issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission mandating telecom consumers to link the Subscriber Identity Module to their National Identity Numbers. This represents a 28 million increase from the 12 million telephone […]

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