Members of a coalition of separatist groups attacked a town in central Mali on Tuesday, killing 11 people and moving violence farther south after a cease-fire was broken last week, a spokesperson and the government said. Moussa Ag Attaher of the Co-ordination of Azawad Movements said that they
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The immediate past Chief of Staff (CoS) to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed will be docked on Thursday (today) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Daily Times has learnt. Also to be arraigned over alleged land scam is one other senior official of the Ministry of […]
A local government staff, in Kogi State, Onu Friday, has the denied any link with an assassination plot, as claimed by a member-elect of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Friday Sanni. He stated that the allegation was a frame-up to tarnish his image. Onu, who was speaking with newsmen, in Lokoja, on […]
Suspected armed robbers have killed one Christopher Timinimi, said to be a younger brother to Mr. George Timinimi, a former Commissioner for Transport in Delta State. According to a family source, “The incident occurred at about 7:30 pm around Idiaregbe by Okere Ugborikoko road when the suspected bandits shot Christopher, a middle aged man from […]
The Senate on Tuesday passed Violence Against Persons Prohibition Bill sponsored by the Leader of the Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba. The bill seeks to prohibit female circumcision or genital mutilation, forceful ejection from home and harmful widowhood practices. The bill also prohibits abandonment of spouse, children and other dependents without sustenance, battery and
Nine men and one woman were on Tuesday remanded in prison custody by an Ikeja High Court, Lagos following their connection with the Ejigbo Pepper Sodomy. The 10 were brought to court over the torture, attempted murder and sodomy of three females accused of stealing pepper at Oba Morufu International Market in Ejigbo area of […]
Mr. AdetunjiOyeyipo, a Senior Advocate is a partner in one of the foremost law firm, Abdullahi Ibrahim and Co. Oyeyipo, who was among the legal team that fought to get back the Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole’s mandate at the election tribunal in 2007 in this interview told PETER FOWOYO, his expectation from the […]
On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City’s Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turns on the building’s lights. Hoover’s gesture, of course, was symbolic; while the president remained in Washington, D.C., someone else flicked the switches in New York. The idea for the Empire […]
On this day in 1926, Ford Motor Company became one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, 40-hour week for workers in its automotive factories. The policy would be extended to Ford’s office workers the following August. Henry Ford‘s Detroit-based automobile company had broken ground in its labour policies before. In early […]
On this day in 1915 in The Hague, Netherlands, the International Congress of Women adopted its resolutions on peace and women’s suffrage. The congress, also referred to as the Women’s Peace Conference, was the result of an invitation by a Dutch women’s suffrage organization to women’s rights activists around the world to gather in peaceful […]
International Workers’ Day is a celebration of labour and the working classes that is promoted by international labour movement and that occurs on May 1 every year. That day, May 1, is also the traditional European Spring holiday of May Day. Therefore, May 1 is a national public holiday in more than 80 countries, but […]
It would appear the fate of young banker and widow of late Seun Olafare, Mrs. Busayo Olafare is still far from visible as she is still at police custody awaiting the result of police autopsy on the late husband. Daily Times visited the suspect at the State Department of Criminal Investigation (SDCI), Panti, Yaba but […]
The Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’ Ikeja of the Nigeria Customs, has released her first quarter report of anti-smuggling activities of the zone. The report which was presented by the controller, DC Usman Adamu Turaki had it that 482 different Seizures were made this quarter. The seizures which includes 133 50kg parboiled rice, 74 […]
Precious is smart and good looking, but greed led her maternal cousin to sell her off for prostitution for as little as N10,000. Speaking to Daily Times as friends and family members celebrate her return from Libya at their Igboroko Street, Lakwe, Ajah residence, Precious recounted her ordeal that began on May 25, 2014 on […]
In Stuttgart, West Ger-many, the lengthy trial of the leaders of the terrorist Baader-Meinhof Gang, also known as the Red Army Faction, ended with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe be-ing found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder. Each defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment, Germa-ny’s […]
In an effort to forestall what he claimed will be a “communist dictatorship” in the Dominican Republic, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent more than 22,000 U.S. troops to restore order on the island nation. Johnson’s action provoked loud protests in Latin America and scepticism among many in the United States. Troubles in the Dominican Republic […]
On this day in 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. The 61-year-old deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his German allies as the figurehead of a puppet government in northern Italy during […]
On April 28, 1916, Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the company that bears his name and was known for stylish, high-performance cars, was born in Italy. After World War II, Lamborghini founded a business making tractors from reconfigured surplus military machines, near Bologna, Italy. He later expanded into other ventures, including manufacturing air-conditioning and
Chief Olisa Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate and former President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in this interview with PETER FOWOYO, took a swipe at the members of the National Assembly for the outrageous salaries being paid to the lawmakers by the Revenue Fiscal and Mobilization Committee and quickly call on the President-elect to revert same without […]
Some say life starts at 50, but for 50 year old painter, Tokunbo Ojo, who chose to go into robbery as a means of livelihood, life at 50 may well being in prison. Daily Times gathered that Tokunbo, who specialises in robbery at parties and big ceremonies, uses a master key to open and loot […]
