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        The Lagos State Administrator-General, Mrs. Omotola Rotimi, has called on all residents to embrace the culture of writing their Wills while they are still hale hearty and save their families from avoidable legal cases and family acrimony after death. The Administrator-General, who made the call recently while featuring on a Lagos Television (LTV) programme, titled “Oro To Nlo”, specifically pleaded with family breadwinners, who are 40 years of age and above, not to trivialise the issue of writing their Wills. She noted that the acrimony and disharmony that families experience, when the breadwinner of the family dies intestate, can be avoided if individuals are proactive and put their houses in order before they answer their maker's call. Rotimi further admonished women contemplating marriage in the State to ensure that they enter into statutory marriages, stressing that the law of the State only recognises a legally married woman. In her words, "when a husban...

         It is a sad day in Umuereagu village in Anaku, Anambra State as Mr. Gabriel Udoroji Ejimor and Mrs. Jennifer Uchechukwu Ejimofor Were buried on friday the 28th of August,2020. Husband and wife whose death occurred on Wednesday 5th August, 2020 as a result of gunshots by unknown cult members in their resident in Azikoro Village, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The husband and wife were 45 and 38 years respectively. More saddening is the fact that they left behind four children, two girls and two boys who are all below the age of 10.May their souls rest in peace,Amen.More photos below.

        * To construct two new hostels * Build 1,500 capacity multi-purpose hall Rivers State Government is to construct two new hostels that will accommodate nine hundred students each at the Nigerian Law School, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The State Government is to also build a 1, 500 capacity Multi-Purpose Hall at the school. Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike announced this today when he visited the school in company of the Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Professor Isa Hayatu Chiroma. He said the gesture was part of the state government's contribution to the development of legal education in the country. "Rivers State also belongs to the South-South, so we think that we should also make our own contribution. "Accordingly, our State will construct two new hostels to accommodate nine hundred students each and also build a multipurpose hall that will accommodate 1,500 students. "Ordinarily, this school was supposed to be located in Port Harcourt, but the former a...

       By Jimin Geoffrey Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has pledged continued support for National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW and other unions. Governor Ortom, who is Patron of the union made the pledge yesterday at the Benue Peoples House Makurdi, when the National President of NURTW, Comrade Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on him. The Governor stated that he was willing to contribute his quota to the development of the union, stressing that he was always proud to identify with NURTW as a place of his humble beginning, noting that as Governor, he still relates well with his friends from the motor park. He commended the leadership of the NURTW for the nationwide sensitization of members on COVID-19 safety protocols, even as he prayed God to grant leaders of the union the wisdom to take it to the desired destination. National President of NURTW, Comrade Tajudeen Ibikunle, represented by the National Deputy Chairm...

          Justice Aisha Mahmoud of the Kano State High Court on Friday, August 28, 2020 convicted and sentenced one Ismail Nuhu to one year imprisonment for issuance of dud cheques. The convict was prosecuted by the Kano zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC) on five count charges of issuance of dud cheques. The convict obtained fertilizer worth N8,700,000 (Eight Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Naira Only) from a petitioner and issued him four Diamond Bank cheques, which were returned unpaid, due to lack of funds in the account. However, while investigation was ongoing, the convict paid the sum of N6,000,000 (Six Million Naira Only) and refused to pay the remaining sum of N2,700,000 ( Two Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Naira Only). One of the charge read “ That you Ismail Nuhu on or about 5th day September 2017 at Kano within the jurisdiction of the Kano State High Court knowingly and fraudulently issued cheque number 34385478 dated...

         In fulfillment of the promise made on 2 January 2020, when they were airlifted from Yenagoa, Bayelsa State to Yola in Adamawa State, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) today, 29 August 2020, airlifted previously conjoined twins, Mercy and Grace Aeiygbenmi, along with their parents and medical team back to Yenagoa after a successful separation surgery at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola. The twins and their parents arrived the Bayelsa International Airport in company of the NAF Chief of Medical Services (CMS), Air Commodore Gideon Bako, onboard a NAF Beechcraft KingAir 350i aircraft. They were received on arrival by the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, as well as other members of the Bayelsa State Executive Council and the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the FMC Yenagoa, Dr Dennis Allagoa, who all expressed their appreciation to the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, and the entire NAF family for the hum...

        A video of a Nigerian man weeping and rolling in the mud after his girlfriend rejected his marriage proposal has been shared online. According to reports, the incident happened inside a market in Owerri, Imo state. According to sources,the maan is identified as Ekeh Nnamdi rolled in the mud after his lover Miss Charity Odunze rejected his proposal at Relief Market,Owerri,Imo State,Nigeria.Mr Ekeh who is a bricklayer while speaking to journalists said from his little income that he trained Miss Charity inthe university only to be dumped after five years.Ekeh advised mem to use their money for gambling than investing it in any woman.Ekeh also stated that Miss Charity was the 3rd woman to treat him in such mannar,he concluded that majority of women out there are fraudsters who sees relationship as opportunity to dupe innocent men. In the video, the lady could be seen shouting at the man after she refused his proposal. The heartbroken man prostrated on the floor ...

     The President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Nnia Nwodo, says Nigeria will witness a turnaround in fortune if an Igbo man emerges President of the country in 2023... Nwodo said this in a congratulatory message he sent to Nigerian-born Kelechi Madu, the newly appointed Minister of Justice and Solicitor General in Alberta, Canada. In the congratulatory message signed by Emeka Attamah, his media adviser, Nwodo said Madu's achievement in Canada shows that if an Igbo man is elected as President in 2023, Nigeria will be transformed. He appealed to the Federal Government to stop marginalizing and victimizing the Igbos in the country so that their latent creative potentials could be harnessed for the good of all Nigerians. He said... “Ohanaeze Ndigbo is highly honoured by the exploits of Kaycee Madu in far away Canada as an Igbo son. Mr Madu had contested and won a seat into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the electoral district of ...

        It's now certain that the president's youngest daughter, Hanan, would be wedding on Friday, September 4, 2020 at the Aso rock presidential villa, Abuja as invitation cards for the ceremony have been sent out Her heartthrob is Turad Sha'aban, the son of a former lawmaker, Alhaji Mahmud Sani Sha'aban, who represented Zaria in the House of Representatives from May 2003 to May 2007. Sha'aban is also a former governorship candidate in Kaduna State under the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria.This is the first-ever wedding to take place in the Aso Rock Villa.

        Islamic teacher arrested for turning his male students into sex machines in Kano One Ibrahim Mohammed, an Islamic teacher in Kano has been arrested by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for allegedly sodomising two of his underage male students. The NAPTIP Zonal Commander in Kano, Shehu Umar confirmed this while speaking with newsmen on Friday. Umar said, the command on a tip off arrested Mohammed for turning his almajiri students to sex machines. “We, on the 25th August, received an information that one Ibrahim Mohammed was having unlawful canal knowledge of his two under-aged students (Almajiris) seven to nine-years-old at Unguwar Kadawa, Kwanar Dillalai Quarters Kano.” He said He continued…. “We swung into action immediately after we got the information and we arrested the suspect while the two victims were rescued. The victims will also be united with their parents. “The suspect is married and has been...

         Recall that The Fidelinfo earlier reported that about six persons have been paraded by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) as suspected gruesome killers of 100 level University of Benin student, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, which trended across the social media with the hashtag #JusticeForUwa . The Fidelinfo understands that she was attacked in a church in May during the total lockdown where she had gone to read. She later died at the hospital. One of those identified has narrated how they killed the young lady, he said: “Five of us entered the church. I was outside watching if anybody was coming, Neslon, Azubike and Lucky who ran away had monitored whether anybody was in the church. “They then carried a 2 by 4 wood, beckoned on me to come and we all entered the church the same time. I now engaged the girl while Nelson hit her with the wood on her neck. “The girl fell, scattered the table and the books she was reading, I now rushed towards her and as she was about t...

        Yusuf died on Saturday after a brief illness at an Abuja hospital August 29, 2020 A serving Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the newly created Zone 14 comprising of Katsina and Kaduna State, Rabiu Yusuf, is dead. Yusuf died on Saturday after a brief illness at an Abuja hospital, according to katsinapost.com.ng. He served as Commissioner of Police in Kano State before he was promoted to Assistant Inspector-General of Police in 2020. “Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Rabi'u Yusuf, in charge of newly established Zone 14 headquarters in Katsina is dead.

      In reply please quote Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.3/10 Date: 30th August, 2020 The Director of News       ​· Says the Force Remains Committed to protecting the Sanctity of the Ballot The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A. Adamu, NPM, mni has warned politicians and their supporters in Edo and Ondo States, where gubernatorial elections are scheduled to hold on 19th September, 2020 and 10th October, 2020 respectively, to conduct themselves properly, play by the rules and steer-clear of tendencies capable of undermining the electoral process in the two States. The IGP gave the warning having reviewed the Election Security Threat Assessment Reports submitted by the Commissioners of Police from both States in a meeting held Tuesday, 25th August, 2020. The Election Security Threat Analysis reveals amongst other indicators: arming and movement of political thugs, use of inciting statements during political campaigns, high likelihood of violenc...