Justice T.G. Ringing of the Federal High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State has convicted and sentenced two police officers alongside an immigration officer to seven years imprisonment each for employment fraud to the tune of N1,640,000 (One Million Six Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira). The officers are identified as Yusuf AbdulKarim Bature and Musa…
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a young man who allegedly killed his mother, grandma, sister and nephew through food poisoning in a quest for money ritual through what they called “Okeite.” Although the incident reportedly happened in September 2024, Amaeze in Nsukka town, he was picked and handed over to the police on…
Nigerian music star Tiwa Savage has revealed that she once returned a Range Rover gifted to her by an admirer for her birthday. In an interview on The Beat 99.9 FM, Savage explained her decision. She stated, “I once got a Range Rover for my birthday, but I returned it because I was not feeling…
The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has cautioned the governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu against what it described as a vendetta against the Igbo people living in the state and their properties. Ohanaeze in a statement issued on Sunday by Okechukwu Isiguzoro and Chinemeze Ohia, its Deputy President General and National Spokesperson alleged that 2,753…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, is dead. He was 78. Ogbeh, who also served as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 2001 to 2005, died peacefully, his family announced in a statement on Saturday. “It is with deep sadness that we announce the…
The Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation on Saturday, Wale Akinlosotu, has confirmed the death of the Secretary to the State government, Tayo Oluwatuyi. Oluwatuyi who died on Saturday at a yet-to-be-disclosed hospital, was involved in accident on December 15 while travelling to Ibadan. The Ondo top official popularly known as Tukana, who was…
The Association of Southern Nigerian Students (ASONIS) National Body Elect is proud to commend the Nigerian Senate for the successful passage of the groundbreaking bill establishing the Southwest Development Commission. This visionary legislative achievement, championed under the astute leadership of Senate President, Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio, and supported by all senators representing the Southwest senatorial…
Ali Pate, coordinating minister of health and social welfare, says patients from the UK, US and the West African subregion have been flocking to Nigeria for quality medical care. Pate spoke on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu….
Nurses of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo state have been seen using their phones as source of light as power outage continues in the facility. Last week, patients and family members protested power and water cuts in the health facility. However, in a recent video by The Cable, nurses of the hospital were…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of over 8,800 new Primary Healthcare Centres across the country and the upgrade of existing tertiary institutions to handle trauma, oncology, and infectious disease control. This was disclosed on Saturday by the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, when he commissioned the Sulaiman Adebola Adegunwa Trauma Centre in Sagamu,…