The Nigeria Police Force has abolished regulations that previously mandated the dismissal of unmarried female officers who became pregnant while in service. The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Aishatu Baju, who is the most senior female officer in the Force, confirmed this development on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief. Baju explained…
A cleric, Olugbenga, (surname withheld) has sought for the dissolution of his 30-year-old marriage to his wife, Banke, on the grounds of irresponsibility, infidelity and constant fight. The case is at Grade A Customary, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State. Olugbenga said that his wife was dating two other men when they met. According to him, he…
On the 17th of November, 2024, at about 2023hrs. Operatives of the Command received a distress call from the Command’s Control Room indicating that a gang of armed men numbering about four (4) operating in a Black colour Toyota Corolla car shot sporadically and kidnapped one Madabuchi Julius ‘m’ at Sabbath Filling Station, Oyigbo. Operatives…
The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has condemned the murder of travelers from Northern Nigeria in Udune Efandion community of Uromi, Edo State. In a statement issued Friday, Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, CON, described the attack as a gross violation of human rights, stressing that extrajudicial violence…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that President Bola Tinubu has raised the country’s proposed 2025 annual budget to N54.2 trillion from N49.7 trillion. The increase in the proposed budget size is through separate letters forwarded to both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The president in the letter read during plenary in the Senate by Senator…
The Kano State Censorship Board has suspended 22 airing of 22 popular Hausa series films for allegedly violating its regulatory guidelines. The board said the move is a strategic one to ensure strict adherence to regulations and uphold professionalism within the Hausa film industry, the Kannywood. According to a statement by the board’s Information Officer,…
The Police Service Commission has approved the dismissal of 18 senior police officers which comprised ten Assistant Superintendents, four Deputy Superintendents, two Chief Superintendents and one Superintendent. The Commission also approved the reduction in ranks of 19 other senior Police Officers, one Assistant Commissioner of Police, one Chief Superintendent, two Superintendents, two Deputy Superintendents and…
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, made a startling revelation of an extraordinary experience with a ‘demon-possessed’ woman who persistently claimed that God had told her he was her husband. Speaking on Wednesday during the grand finale of the 2025 Special Victory Hour programme of the church, the…
Nasir Buba, the husband of a woman allegedly found with the suspended Jigawa State Commissioner for Special Duties, Awwal Danladi Sankara in an uncompleted building, has dragged the embattled commissioner before a Sharia Court in Kano. Operatives of Hisbah had on Friday announced the arrest of Sankara with a married woman after what it called…
Amid suspension and ongoing recall process, the Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has rubbish a trending video portraying her as traditional worshipper. Reacting to the video, Senator Natasha on her X page said the footage is from 2015 CNN documentary, which captured the essence of Yoruba culture. She maintained that she is a Christian,…