Tokunbo Wahab, the Lagos state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, has announced plans to take action against two persons caught on tape allegedly throwing trash into flood water.

A photo was shared on social media showing a man and a woman rolling a drum on their flooded street. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

The X user who shared the photo alleged that the accused persons threw dirt in a drum in the flood water.

Reacting to the post, Wahab vowed to ensure that action is taken against them.

On Wednesday, July 3, the students of the University of Benin, took to the streets, blocking the ever-busy Benin-Ore Highway to protest weeks of power outage on the campus.

The students, who have only two weeks until their first semester examinations, said the situation was severely affecting their preparation.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered the university was thrown into a blackout following the inability to reach an agreement with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) over a contentious electricity bill.

The management of the institution was said to have expressed discontent after the Benin Disco reportedly made an upward review of the institution’s monthly electricity charges by over 200 per cent. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

The monthly bill was said to have jumped from about N80 million to between N200 and N280 million, forcing the university to resort to power generators as well as rationalisation of power on the two campuses and hostels.

They said, “We only had one hour of electricity every day since this issue started. We are tired of studying in the dark.

“We need electricity to read and prepare for our exams. The university management needs to take responsibility and fix this issue,” said John Afolabi, one of the protesting students.

The protest, which began early in the morning, saw students carrying placards and chanting slogans as they blocked the highway.



“We will not leave until something is done. We can’t afford to fail our exams because of the university’s negligence, said Sarah Osaigbovo, a 300 level student of the Ugbowo campus.”.

The protest caused a significant disruption to the free flow of vehicular movement, with many passengers stranded and unable to reach their destinations.

A secondary school student in Adamawa State has been remanded for allegedly raping a mad woman three times.

The student, Idris Alex Emeka who attends Capital Government Day Secondary School, pleaded guilty at the Chief Magistrate Court 2 in Yola where he is arraigned on a charge of rape.

Magistrate Musa Alhaji Adamu, the presiding judge of the court, remanded the 20-year-old defendant after he pleaded guilty to the offence. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

The prosecution had told the court that the student was caught in the sex romp with the mentally ill woman on the 26th of June 2024.

In its First Information Report tendered in court, the prosecution alleged that the defendant had sexual intercourse with the mentally retarded woman on three occasions.

The prosecuting officer, Inspector Galeon Nimrod, told the court that one Habu Jibrilla came to Karewa Police Station and reported the matter.

Nimrod said Jibrilla, who is of the State Low-Cost Housing Estate in Jimeta, stated that he caught the defendant having sex with the mentally unhinged woman by the street side around 6:40am and decided to take hold of him and hand him over to the police.