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  An Abuja Magistrates’ Court in Life-Camp on Wednesday sentenced Paul Emmanuel and Mustapha Abubakar to three months in prison for stealing an I-Phone and Blackberry cell-phones valued at N265,000. Emmanuel, 18, and Abubakar, 23, claimed they are students who reside in Gwarimpa Estate, Abuja. The magistrate, Alhaji Abdulateef Abolaji, sentenced them after they pleaded […]

The federal government has granted the University of Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University approval to award degree certificates in traditional medicine practice. The National Association of Nigerian Traditional Medicine Practitioners (NANTMP) National President, Omon Oleabhiele, confirmed the unprecedented development in the Edo State. He said the Federal Ministry of Health had already inaugurated the body

  The Lagos State Government said on Thursday that it had rescued no fewer than 25 children from a suspected child trafficker in Egbeda area of the state. Alaba Fadairo, Director, Ministry of Youth and Social Development, told journalists in Ikeja that the children were rescued at an illegal orphanage on August 17. “Government officials in collaboration

  The federal government Thursday distributed N100 billion to 59 public universities as its first intervention fund for the provision of critical infrastructure in the  institutions. It also appealed to the Academic Staff  Union of  Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike and allow resumption of activities in the ivory towers. But its plea may have not

  Five university students were, yesterday, docked at an Abeokuta  magistrate’s court  for  allegedly belonging to a secret cult. The  accused are Opeyemi Fakeye, 28; Samuel Popoola, 28; Oladejo Musiliu, 20; Christian Dada, 25; and Mustapha Disu, 28. They are from various institutions. The accused who were not represented by any counsel, are facing a four-count

  At least 23 young pregnant girls have become the victims of the use of native concoction for abortion in only one year. It has been learnt that teenage girls within some communities in Agbor, Kwale, Isoko North and South who became pregnant and were desperate to do away with the pregnancies, sought the help

  Two Cypress families were frantically searching from Houston to San Antonio for their missing teen daughters. Liana Andrews, 16, and Kacie Watson, 14, are church friends and vanished on Friday night. Liana’s grandmother was watching the pair and went to bed. “Liana and Kacie were both in Liana’s bedroom on the phone giggling,’ said

  Graduates have taken over most car wash businesses in Kaduna metropolis to end their endless search for formal jobs. A correspondent who went round the city reports that the operators were making brisk business and smiling to the banks. Julius Samba, a graduate of the University of Maiduguri, who operates a car wash centre

  An Italian teenager who wrote to Pope Francis got a shock when the Catholic leader called him up for a chat — the latest example of the pontiff’s down-to-earth approach. Francis called up a journalist friend on the day of his election and even phoned a newspaper stand in Buenos Aires to cancel his

  This teenage boy beat airline and airport security at the Benin Airport and sneaked into the tyre compartment of a Lagos-bound Arik plane, where he flew safely to the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos on Saturday morning. There was, however, pandemonium at the airside of the Lagos airport when passengers disembarking from the aircraft