A POS operator in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, Umar Usman, drank a locally made insecticide on Monday in a move to kill himself over a N1.7 million debt.Umar, who is from Yola South LGA, made the suicide attempt by drinking the local stuff called Otapiapia at the Upper Area Court I in Yola, where he was arraigned following a criminal complaint by his friend, Mustapha Baraya, over the money.His friend, of the same community, sued him earlier this year, on Februar...

The wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Unoma Godswill Akpabio, has filed multiple lawsuits against Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, over allegations of sexual harassment leveled against her husband.Mrs. Akpabio is seeking N250 billion in damages in a fundamental rights lawsuit and an additional N1 billion in a defamation suit at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court.Natasha Akpoti’s Allegations Against Senate President AkpabioSenator Natasha A...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, over the alleged ”arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, and unreasonable 50 percent telecom tariff hike by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.Also joined in the suit as defendants are the NCC, which recently approved a 50 percent hike in telecom tariffs.The average price of calls will rise to N16.5 per minute from N11; the cost of 1GB of...