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A magistrate in Calabar, Cross River State, Richard Bassey, has collapsed at the gate of the Governor’s Office on the second day of an ongoing protest over unpaid salaries. Some magistrates had started a protest at the Government House on Monday over nonpayment of salary arrears for two years. On Tuesday, Bassey, who joined his colleagues for the protest, collapsed amid the demonstration. He was, however, immediately revived by his colleagues who later took him to hospital. It was gathered that the magistrates were in their full regalia and carried placards calling for the payment of their salary arrears on Tuesday. See Also Jobs Cross Rivers Chief Magistrate, Sons Protest Nonpayment Of Two-year Salaries 0 Comments 1 Day Ago Speaking on behalf of the magistrates, Solomon Abuo said no government official had addressed them since they began the protest. He said they had been tossed about for the past two years with nothing concrete coming from the government. “As I ...

A young man who had his dreadlocks shaved off recently by soldiers at Sapele, Delta State, has said his only crime is being a Nigerian. The aggrieved man said he had gone on a visit to his hometown, Sapele, from Lagos State when he was accosted by the soldiers who harassed, assaulted and brutally shaved off his dreadlocks. Twitter/ChristianahAba1 On Monday, he took to his Twitter page @KingsRubies, to demand justice, stating that he had been traumatised by the experience. He tweeted, “The only crime I ever committed against Nigeria is that I’m her citizen. I see no other wrong. The @NigerianArmy cut off my hair for no reason at all. Is it constitutional? “This set of military men stopped me at about 21:32 (9.32pm) along Ajogodo Road, Sapele, Delta State. I greeted them and without asking any questions, they asked me to lie on the ground. I asked to know why and the response I got was a wire to my butt. I complied and received another whipping.  These set of military ...

Police were called at 07:49 GMT on 27 December to a report of the death of a child at a flat in Invermore Place A 36-year-old Nigerian, Oluwakemi Badare, has allegedly killed her four-year-old son, Kingswealth Bayode, in Plumstead, South East London, United Kingdom. Met Police in a statement said the boy’s body was found at a flat at Invermore Place on Sunday morning. Police were called at 07:49 GMT on 27 December to a report of the death of a child at a flat in Invermore Place Google According to the BBC, Oluwakemi is facing a charge of killing her son. Ms Badare did not appear in court but has been remanded into custody ahead of a plea hearing on March 17. According to an unconfirmed online report, Oluwakemi in 2017 put the late Kingswealth in hot water and was sanctioned. She was said to have spent a year in an unnamed psychiatric hospital in the UK. “In 2017, she was sanctioned for putting him in hot water. Social services took her son and she was in a psychiatric ho...

File photo A businessman, Monsuru Aderoju, has been reportedly kidnapped in the Igangan area of Ibarapa, Oyo State, barely 24 hours after a member of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) Mrs Sherifat Adisa, was murdered. Oladokun Oladiran, convener of an advocacy group called Igangan Development Advocates, confirmed the abduction to journalists in Ibadan on Tuesday morning. File photo Oladokun said, “The victim is a popular cassava dealer known as Alhaji Monsuru Aderoju. “Monsuru Aderoju was kidnapped by unknown strangers suspected to be the Fulani kidnap gang on Monday evening. He resides at Oke Agbède, Igangan. “The business tycoon (supplies cassava) and he has one wife and two kids. “After he finished his 8pm Muslim prayer, he decided to go home. According to information from a reliable source, two of the kidnappers attended the same prayer session. “However, their strange faces only generated some suspicion after the saga unfolded; they were ...

A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abuja has rejected the request by the Nigerian police for more time to enable the force to study the formal bail application filed by the human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, and four others. At the resumed hearing of the case on Tuesday, the presiding magistrate, Mabel Segun-Bello, stood down the matter for two hours and directed the police lawyer, Adamu Musa, who was holding brief for James Idachaba, to go through the bail application. The prosecution counsel earlier told the court that he was not ready for the bail application filed by the defence counsel, Marshal Abubakar, stating that they were not served within the stipulated time as ordered by the court. He said they were served around 10.53am in the court, noting that there were issues of fact that needed their response in the application. All efforts by the prosecution to seek adjournment were turned down by the court as the magistrate said that she had taken a judicial notice of th...