Naira crashes to N1,210 to US Dollar (Leadership) The value of the naira continued its downward spiral at the opening of business activities on Monday crashing at the parallel market to N1,210 to the dollar as against N1,170 which it…
*Farm labourer bags life imprisonment for raping Lagos teenager (Punch)*‘It’s your 3rd birthday behind bars’, Hushpuppi’s friend writes him (DailyTrust)
Farm labourer bags life imprisonment for raping Lagos teenager (Punch) Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Wednesday, sentenced a farm labourer, Isiaka Adeoye, who raped a 17-year-old girl, to life imprisonment.…
Bello rallies support for Nigeria’s ex-internationals, says they are legends
Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has called for greater support for Nigeria’s ex-international football stars and their families, saying those who made the nation proud at one time or the other must never be forgotten. He specifically said Nigerians…
8 years after, Nigeria yet to immortalise Rashidi Yekini
Eight years after his demise, Nigeria is yet to immortalise the legendary Rashidi Yekini who scored the country’s first ever goal at the FIFA senior World Cup. He achieved the feat at the 1994 World Cup in the United State…
Yekini’s close friends murdered him, says Odegbami (Guardian)
Former Green Eagles captain, Segun Odegbami has revealed that Rashidi Yekini’s close friends were behind his death in 2012. The ‘Mathematical’ as he’s fondly called disclosed this in an interview on Channels Television that was monitored by Soccernet.ng. Odegbami, who…
*Police arrest domestic staff for murder (Nation)*Prices of tomato, pepper increase by 60% in Lagos ahead of Ramadan (Vanguard)
Police arrest domestic staff for murder (Nation) A former domestic staff, Monday Odey, who fled after hitting his colleague to death in Magodo, Lagos Mainland, has been arrested, the police said yesterday. Odey was arrested one month after killing Abdullahi…