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Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has lamented the death of a student activist and 2020 graduate, Nurudeen Alowonle, popularly known as Omomeewa, some hours after he was invited to face a disciplinary panel set up by the Lagos State University. Alowonle was shot dead around LASU U-turn, Iba road, Lagos on Wednesday, according to a release […]
Continue ReadingAare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Thursday claimed that not less than N3bn was paid as ransom to rescue about 400 people kidnapped in the Southwest in a period of two years. Adams also lamented that over 200 persons were killed in the Southwest region by the kidnappers within the years under review. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, arrested a former governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji. Mr. Orji, who had for long been on the Commission’s watch list, was intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 10am, and driven to the headquarters of the EFCC in Abuja. He is currently […]
Continue ReadingProfessor of Political Economy and Management expert, Pat Utomi, has said that alternative roads must be created if tollgate fees are going to be reintroduced. Utomi also stated that the idea to scrap the toll gates in the first place was a very unwise one as government spent tens of millions of dollars knocking them down. […]
Continue ReadingThe family of late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, has said that his first son, Mohammed, who passed away on Wednesday, August 11, actually died from COVID-19 related complications. The family gave the clarification at a briefing in Lagos on Thursday, August 19. Saheed Fawehinmi, the second son of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, who spoke on behalf of the […]
Continue ReadingFormer Lagos State governor and APC National leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with former AMCON Chairman & Ex-Legal Adviser of APC, Muiz Banire SAN, in London today August 18. See more photos below: LIB
Continue ReadingIn a statement issued on Wednesday by the Director of Press and Information of the Nigerian Supreme Court, Mr. Festus Akande, the Supreme Court and the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC), have denied a list being circulated online as names of lawyers penned for the award of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) rank for 2021, […]
Continue Reading62-yr-old man identified as Moshood Lasisi has committed suicide in his room in Ayede Ogbese, Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria. TVC reports that Lasisi who was walking on crushes, hung himself when his wife and children had gone to farm. His wife, Lady Evangelist Victoria Lasisi, discovered his body in […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances has ballooned to N15.51tn, rising by 2,286 per cent in six years, data collated from the CBN have shown. The N15.51tn owed by the Federal Government to the central bank is not part of the country’s total public debt stock, […]
Continue ReadingIt was a calamity on Tuesday at Elegbaata village, Oke Suna, Apomu, in the Isokan Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria, after seven people — a man, his wife and five children — were found dead in their apartment. According to Punch, one other member of the family, who also slept in the house, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian activists clamoring for nations’ self-determination under the aegis of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) have warned the Nigerian Government against holding the 2023 general election without first organising a referendum. NINAS made this known at a world press conference held in Lagos, Nigeria, on Tuesday sequel to the 120-day expiration of […]
Continue ReadingA four-man Special Investigation Panel (SIP) headed by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Joseph Egbunike has submitted its report to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba after being directed to probe former Head, Intelligence Response Team and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. The panel was […]
Continue ReadingGunmen suspected to be bandits have killed a police officer identified as Ismail Dogara, in Kaduna state, Nigeria. It was gathered that ASP Dogara was brutally attacked by the assailants on his way home in Zaria in the early hours of Monday, August 16. The officer was rushed to a hospital where he passed away […]
Continue ReadingAttorneys General of the 36 states of Nigeria have instituted a court action against the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation over the government’s failure to remit recovered funds into the federal account. In the suit filed at the Nigerian Supreme Court registry and marked as SC/CV/395/2021, the 36 states Attorneys General are […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, is dead. He died in the early hours of Tuesday. “He has been ill occasionally for some time and when he came to Jos last weekend, the illness started again and he was rushed to the hospital. Unfortunately, he could not make it. We will miss him,” a […]
Continue ReadingIn spite of the suspension of the weekly Monday sit-at-home order declared by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over the detention of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, residents of Anambra and Abia states deserted their markets, offices and business areas on Monday, August 16. IPOB on Saturday announced the suspension of the sit-at-home order saying […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2021 into law. Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement on Monday, titled: ‘President Buhari Signs Petroleum Industry Bill Into Law.’ The presidential spokesman said his principal signed the controversial bill into law while working from […]
Continue ReadingA federal lawmaker representing Akure South/Akure North Federal Constituency in Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mr Adedayo Omolafe, popularly known as “Expensive”, has passed away. Omolafe, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), died around 2am on Monday at his residence in Abuja. The Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Kennedy Peretei, confirmed this to […]
Continue ReadingThe Taliban has declared the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ after capturing the Air force, Army bases and the presidential palace of the country on Sunday, August 15. This comes as US, UK and Western nations hastily evacuate their citizens and diplomatic staff out of the country. This comes after Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani departed the […]
Continue ReadingArinola Olowoporoku simply called Arin, the fifth female housemate to walk into Big Brother’s House has ended her journey on the show tonight, as she was evicted. Speaking with Ebuka, the host, Arin said that everything that happened from when she walked into the house has been positive. Also, thirty-year-old Princess Francis aka Princess, has […]
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