Maryam Sanda to die by hanging for killing husband

    Abuja High Court yesterday, sentenced Maryam Sanda to death by hanging for the murder of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello. In his judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, held that the prosecution established circumstantial evidence coupled with the testimony of Sanda and statement to the police that she “fatally” stabbed her husband dead in Abuja on November 19, 2017.

Lagos State Government Bans Okada And Tricycle Riders In 15 LGs/LCDAs

    The Lagos State Government has banned okada and tricycle riders in six Local Governments and nine Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, of the state. The councils are:
Apapa LG,
Apapa Iganmu LCDA,
Lagos Mainland LG ,
Yaba LCDA,
Surulere LG,
Itire-Ikate, LCDA,
Coker-Aguda LCDAs,
Ikeja LG, Onigbongbo LCDAs,
 Ojodu LCDAs,
Eti-Osa LG,
Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA,
Iru/Victoria Island LCDAs,
Lagos Island LG
 Lagos Island East LCDA.

Kobe Bryant to be inducted into Hall of Fame in 2020 class

    Kobe Bryant will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, bypassing the normal election process following the helicopter crash that claimed his and his daughter's lives, as well as seven others, in California on Sunday.

  The Athletic's Shams Charania reported the news. When asked to confirm, a spokeswoman for the Hall of Fame provided a statement that did not address whether or not the institution will forego the traditional induction process for Bryant.  However, Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo did make it sound as though Bryant's induction is a foregone conclusion.

Simi Esiri confirmed the end of their five-year-old marriage with Dr Sid

    Simi Esiri, the estranged wife of Nigerian singer, Sidney Esiri also known as Dr Sid, has confirmed the end of their five-year-old marriage that produced two children. Simi took to her Instagram page  and confirmed they are heading for a divorce and moving forward as co-parents.

Security system can’t tackle terrorism and killings- Lawan

 

    Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Monday dismissed the country’s security architecture as ineffective.

   To the senator, it is time to rejig the set up because of the resurgence of insecurity, criminality and killings across the country. “The security system has not been working efficiently and effectively, we have to do something about it,” Lawan told reporters in Abuja on Monday ahead of today’s resumption of senators from their end of year recess.

    He spoke against the backdrop of a myriad of security challenges at the weekend. On Sunday night, gunmen killed 15 people in Plateau State. Also on Sunday night in Kaduna, gunmen suspected to be kidnappers attacked a vehicle carrying travellers after they alighted from a train at Raigasa station.