Day: December 13, 2018

Undergraduate stabs boyfriend to death

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An undergraduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Abiodun Olabisi, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Lekan Adegun, to death. The victim, a graduate of the Department of Transport Management of the same institution, was waiting for his call-up letter for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps programme before the incident happened. The state Police Commissioner, Abiodun Odude, who paraded the suspects in Ibadan, said the incident happened following a quarrel between the two as a result of petty jealousy. According…

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Credible elections doubtful unless Buhari sign Electoral Bill – Atiku

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In the wake of President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has cast doubt over the possibility of having free, fair and credible elections in 2019. The former Vice President made the remark yesterday at the Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Centre, Abuja, where he signed the peace accord to commit himself to peaceful elections in 2019. Atiku failed to turn up at the International Conference Centre on Tuesday where President Muhammadu Buhari and…

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Lagos police counters Sogunle, says Have sex in car, go to jail

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The Lagos State Police, through it’s spokesperson, Chike Oti, has described as misplaced a tweet credited to the head of the Police Complaint Rapid Response Unit, Abayomi Sogunle, that having sex in a car is not a criminal offence. Oti said it was an indecent act to have sex in a car in a public place not only in Lagos, but in the entire country. He said lovers who engaged in sexual activities in vehicles parked in public places, under Lagos laws, were liable to between two and three years’…

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Abacha Loot: Buhari Thanks Swiss Govt For Returning $322.5m

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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, expressed his gratitude to Switzerland for returning funds stolen by corrupt government officials to Nigeria. He said Nigeria was “deeply grateful to Switzerland for its support in resuscitating the economy, especially the return of illegally stolen funds” and in helping to intervene in the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. While receiving letter of credence from the Ambassador of Switzerland to Nigeria, Mr George Steiner, at the Presidential Villa. “We are grateful to the Swiss government for allowing the illegally stolen funds to be brought…

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