Justice Mohammed Owolabi of the Oyo State High Court has sentenced a land racketeer, Joseph Adebayo, to seven years in prison for defrauding one Ikemefune Sunny of N700,000 (Seven Hundred Thousand Naira). Adebayo was on Friday, January 10, 2020 pronounced guilty of a one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence preferred against him by…
•As other four Nigerians voted for other Players, while one didn’t vote for any player Asisat Oshoala, Nigerian football star, emerged winner of the 2019 Africa women best player of the year for the fourth time in her career. The FC Barcelona forward beat South Africa’s Thembi Kgatlana and Ajara Nchout of Cameroon to the…
“Operation Amotekun”, is a joint security outfit which was conceived by the six governors of Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, and Ondo states to address security threats such as kidnapping, robbery, and other social vices bedeviling the region. As the security scheme kick started on Thursday, these are things you need to know about the…
The institution of Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, has suspended the installation of Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde, Kwam 1 as Mayegun of Yorubaland. Prince Akeem Adeyemi, the son of monarch and the lawmaker representing Oyo federal constituency announced this in a statement on Friday, January 10th. Prince Adeyemi said, Oyo is in sober…
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan on Thursday, ordered that a medical doctor, Emmanuel Olorunfemi and two others, who allegedly caused the death of a female patient, be remanded in Agodi Correctional Centre, pending legal advice. The police charged Olorunfemi 51, who works at the Passionate Medical Centre, Mokola, Ibadan, Akinwumi and Ibiwande with…
The controversy surrounding who will become the next Okere of Saki seems not to be ending soon as a fresh legal tussle is brewing to contest the system adopted by the kingmakers on December 17 and 18, 2019 which aggrieved parties alleged was done with failure to conform with the Chiefs Law, and the introduction…
•Says Amotekun Group is not different from Boko Haram and the IPOB movements A radical group of northern youths, Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) on Thursday rose against the launch of “Operation Amotekun” in the South-West Nigeria describing it as a threat to national security. “Operation Amotekun” is a joint security outfit conceived by…
The City of Toronto has honoured a Nigerian man in Canada, identified as Prince Segun Akanni. Prince Akanni, The Publisher of The Drum Online Media, was honoured in the North American country for his excellence, leadership and devotion to others. The chairman of Scarborough Community Council, Honourable Jim Karygiannis, says Akanni’s contribution serves to strengthen…
A group of policemen has been caught in a viral video on social media with a POS demanding for the ATM card of a young man said to be a passenger of a vehicle he and his colleagues stopped for a search on a busy road. The incident occurred at yet to be known location…
A Professor of rural sociology and the immediate past Rector of Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Prof. Gbemiga Adewale has advocated for the establishment of mentoring programmes at the Ladoke Akintola University and other universities in Nigeria. Professor Gbemiga Adewale made this call while delivering a lecture at a training workshop organised…
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