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Segun Odihiri, a 36-year-old man, has allegedly beheaded his 83-year-old mother, Maria Odihiri in Uzzeba, Owan West Local Government Area of  Edo for raising alarm over his attempt to rape his own daughter. The incident was said to have occurred in the area yesterday even as residents of the town were said to have trooped to the scene of the gory incident to catch a glimpse of the lifeless body of the woman covered with her blood. An eyewitness, Mr Ekemeiren Ojekhugbo, told journalists that Odihiri killed his mother for alerting…

Suspended member of the House of Assembly, Abdulmumini Jibrin, representing Kiru/Bebeji Federal constituency in Kano state, has apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent comments he made on him. Jibrin made the remarks while addressing his supporters at his residence shortly after conducting special prayer for the president in Kofa Juma’at Mosque, Bebeji local government area of the state on Friday. “I apologise to President, APC, Gov.Abdullahi Ganduje and all APC supporters over what I said even though it was misinterpreted and misconstrued. “To my party supporters, leaders, friends…

The Bank account of former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, which was frozen by an order obtained by the EFCC, has been released by a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had in November 2016, filed an application before the court, seeking an order freezing the account. The commission had contended that the funds were reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. The account is said to harbour the sum of 5.8 million dollars. On Thursday at the resumed hearing of the case,…

50 more Nigerians were on Thursday deported from eight European countries for committing immigration-related offences. The Nigerians were deported from Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Luxembourg, Austria, Belgium, Spain and Hungary. Their deportation is coming barely 48 hours after another set of 40 Nigerians were deported by the Italian Government, for similar reasons. The fresh batch of deportees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMlA), Lagos at about 7.36 a.m. The deportees, comprising of 48 males and two females, were brought back in a chartered Privileged Time aircraft, with registration number…

The 18 counts charges, including gratification charges preferred against Justice Adeniyi Ademola, his wife, Olubowale; and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Joe Agi, has been dismissed by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday. Justice Jude Okeke discharged the three defendants in a ruling upholding the respective no-case submissions filed by the defendants. The charges were filed last year by the Office of the Attorney General Federation following the raid by the Department of State Services’ operatives on the judge’s house on October…

Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos State Governor, has restated his administration’s commitment at promoting made in Nigeria products. Speaking at the Nigeria Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI) MSME Trade Fair, in Lagos, he noted that Nigeria has depended so much on oil to the detriment of other locally made products; and that is why the economic is weak. According to him, “We have realised that the solution is to increase domestic production and output in other sectors of the economy. We also need to showcase the beautiful products that abound among…