Breaking News

Month: August 2019

Just in: Court grants El Zakyzaky bail to treat self in India

Kaduna court has granted the leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria, El Zakzaky permission to go to India for treatment. Our correspondent reported that the Court session is still on going while Judge reading out condition attached. One of the conditions include he will go with DSS officials. Details later…

Read more

Oyo NURTW leader, Auxiliary cries out over threat to life

One of the leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Oyo State chapter, Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi, popularly known as Auxiliary on Sunday alleged that some groups of assailants had been trailing him in recent time. Lamidi told journalists that he had a close shave with death when some gangs he described as ‘uniform…

Read more

AMCON takes over Iron & Steel company over N3.6m

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over Bao Yao Futurlex Iron & Steel Company Limited in Abuja and Bao Yao Huan Jian Iron & Steel, Calabar, Cross River State over a N3.6 billion debt owed the corporation. This was the judgment recently delivered by Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court….

Read more

ATIKU’S UNRELENTING APPEAL TO EMOTION: A GAMBIT DOOMED TO FAIL|By Femi Adesina

First, it was laughable, now it gets progressively pitiable, to see and hear efforts by presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, appeal to the emotions of Nigerians, particularly members of the judiciary, perchance it would influence decision in the ongoing legal tussle over the result…

Read more

Ladoja quits partisan politics (read his reasons)

Former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja said he has quitted party politics. Ladoja, who is also the Osi Olubadan of Ibadan, declared that his involvement in politics now is for developmental purpose. The Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, leader spoke when he chaired a book launch, Ilagunmesin, which held last Saturday at the Central…

Read more

Makinde not increasing tax to boost IGR, says Oyo Govt

Oyo State government has assured the citizens of the State that the present administration led by Governor Seyi Makinde would not increase tax on small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) as part of effort to increase Internal Generated Revenue (IGR). The Chairman, Oyo State Board of Internal Revenue (BIR), Aremo John Adeleke stated this recently…

Read more

Miyetti Allah leader shot dead as reprisal attack

A leader of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Saidu Kolaku has been shot dead. Saidu was the zonal vice chairman of MACBAN, Adamawa South, until he was shot dead on Saturday. Premium Times reported that his death has been described by an official of MACBAN and other informed persons in the…

Read more

We carry arms for self-defense, Fulani group tells Obasanjo

A Fulani group under the aegis of Gan Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria has explained to former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that herdsmen carry arms to “have balance of terror.” The National Chairman of the group Sali Bayari lamented that the security chiefs and government failed to pay attention to herdsmen and…

Read more

OAU final year student commits suicide using snipers for academic failure

Grace Dara Opeyemi, an English Studies student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) on Friday committed suicide for academic failure. It was gathered that the OAU student took sniper (insecticide) after learning that she might not graduate with her coursemates following an alleged poor performance in her final year exams last semester. “From a copy of…

Read more

How I worked among area boys and prostitutes in Lagos’s slums – VP Yemi Osinbajo’s Wife, Dolapo recounts

Wife of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Dolapo Osinbajo has revealed how she once worked in the slums in Lagos among area boys and prostitutes. Mrs. Osinbajo stated this at the Anti-Substance-Abuse Programme in commemoration of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Abuja recently. A statement by the organisers of the programme quoted…

Read more