Headmistress of Methodist Girls Model Secondary School Ovim, Isiukwuato Local Government Area of Abia State, Mrs Ezinne Oluchi Ibenye, has debunked the reports that 15 students of the school were raped by hoodlums last week. Speaking when the state Governor Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, in the company of his wife, Mrs. Nkechi Ikpeazu, visited the Methodist Church owned school, Mrs Ibenye ...

Lagos lawyer and Spokesperson of the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation,  Mr Festus Keyamo, says he just received with utter shock and disbelief the news of the passing away of Mr. Wale Aboderin, the Chairman of Punch Newspapers. In a statement made available to NewsProbe on Thursday, Keyamo said Mr. Aboderin, whom he usually called “my egbon”, was a close friend, a gentleman per excellence, ...

Members of the LASU communities whose lands fell on government acquisition have finally  heaved a sigh of relief as Governor Akinwunmi Ambode told them today at a stakeholders meeting   that his administration considered the general state of the economy and had  reduced  many charges they would have paid for the  repurchase of the disputed lands by 67%. Represented by his ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has slammed the country’s political opposition for downplaying the unprecedented achievements of the Buhari Administration, saying they are being deliberately and perpetually blind to the achievements. The Minister made the assertion while inaugurating the 22-member newly-elected Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), under the chairmanship of Mallam ...

Nigeria’s Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says African countries must collaborate to tackle security and maritime challenges. Osinbajo spoke at the Nigerian Navy International Maritime Conference 2018 held at the naval dockyard, Lagos State, on Thursday, 31st may, 2018. He said, “Gulf of Guinea States have, of course, long recognized that Security in the Gulf of Guinea is both a challenge to maritime ...

A gender promotion agency, Talk Show with Philomena, has ended a sensitisation programme in Ondewari community in Southern Ijaw Local Government, Bayelsa State, with a call on youths to shun criminal activities such as pipeline vandalism. Facilitator of the programme, Mrs. Philomena Lafieghe, regretted that through such act of vandalism, many youths in the area had lost their lives. She ...

The Deputy National Chairman (North) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Lawali Shuaibu, has clarified that a purported demand to stop the trial of the Senate President Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) did not come up during Monday’s meeting between the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osibajo SAN and former new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) in the APC. ...

The Chairman, PUNCH Nigeria Limited, Mr. Gbadebowale Wayne Aboderin, is dead. He died on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 6.05am after a heart surgery at the First Cardiology Consultants, Ikoyi, Lagos, at the age of 60. He was also Chairman, PUNCH Commercial Printing Limited and  Lukahed Properties Limited. A statement by the newspaper said Mr. Aboderin attended the Government College, Ibadan; ...

A 39-year-old woman, Sholade Adegoke, who allegedly set her uncle ablaze over refusal to move out of her apartment, was on Thursday brought before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Adegoke, who resides at No. 23, Oyenuga St., Ijeshatedo, Surulere, Lagos, is standing trial on a two-count charge bordering on assault. The Prosecutor, Insp. Ikechukwu Edumodior, told the court that ...

The Ugandan parliament on Thursday passed a law imposing a tax on people using mobile social media networks in an attempt to increase revenue, but rights groups say the levy is actually aimed at silencing dissent. The tax for users of WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook is minimal, at 200 Ugandan shillings (five cents) a day, but adds up to about ...