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Ekiti State landlords’ association has sued the Benin Electricity Distribution company (BEDC) over alleged over-billing and illegal disconnection of electricity in the state. In an originating summon filed at the Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, the landlords, under the auspices of Ado Ekiti Electricity Consumers’ Association, said the BEDC contravened the Electricity Reform […]
Continue ReadingHuman Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has condemned what it described as politically motivated persecution of the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and made available to newsmen on Tuesday, HURIWA warned the police about its persistent selective […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Northern Elders Forum, Prof Ango Abdullahi, has said that the Northern region is far more insecured than what it was before the Buhari-led administration came into office in May 2015. Ango Abdullahi said this while reacting to the Presidency’s assertion that the kidnap of the district head of Daura, Buhari’s hometown in Katsina […]
Continue ReadingThe scheduled inaugural sitting of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has started. The five-man panel is led by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa. Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, who heads the five-man panel of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, has assured that justice would be done to all parties in the four […]
Continue ReadingAbout 24 hours after news hit the media space that veteran Nollywood actor, Toyese Onifade Oloyo had passed on, another actor has followed the same path. Reports have it that popular Yoruba Actor, Gbolahan Adio Majester died today, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The actor is said to have died after a long battle with diabetes. […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian movie industry seems to have been thrown into mourning after a veteran actor and drumer, Toyese Onifade Oloyo, reportedly passed away. According to reports from Yoruba Movie Gist.com, the actor was down with a stroke and he lost the battle three weeks later. Oloyo who was also known as a drummer is […]
Continue ReadingMexican authorities have found the remains of a plane that disappeared after leaving from Las Vegas, amid reports that all 14 people on board were killed. The wreckage of the plane, a Bombardier Challenger 601, crashed in the mountainous region of Monclova, while on route to the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. The remains were […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate and unconditional release of its Governorship Candidate in Osun, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, arrested by the police in Abuja. The Party National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, made the call at a press conference on Monday in Abuja. Ologbondiyan condemned the arrest, describing it as unconstitutional, provocative […]
Continue ReadingOfficers from the Lagos state police command have rescued a two-year-old child, Esther Ojo, abducted from the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Church (MFM) regional headquarters in Agege in March. Baby Esther was in church with her parents when she was kidnapped by two men and held for over two months while they demanded a […]
Continue ReadingAfter honoring an invitation at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, on Monday, the Police have opted to detain Senator Ademola Adeleke, also the 2018 PDP governorship candidate for Osun State. The Federal High Court in Abuja had granted the senator the permission to travel to the United States of America for medical check-up. The trip had […]
Continue ReadingWith the spate of kidnappings constantly on the increase and sweeping across the south-west states and other geopolitical zones at large, rights activist, Jiti Ogunye has likened the scenario to that of the slave trade era. According to Ogunye, a lawyer, the vast forests of Yoruba land have been taken over by kidnappers and bandits, […]
Continue ReadingSuspected kidnappers have abducted Professor Olayinka Adegbehingbe of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, while he was on his way to Ife from Ibadan on Sunday May 5. According to reports, Adegbehingbe who lectures at the College of Health Sciences, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, OAU, was kidnapped at about 9:15 pm. OAU Chief […]
Continue ReadingMeghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a boy, her husband Prince Harry announced in a statement to television cameras on Monday, adding that mother and baby were “doing incredibly well”. “I am very excited to announce that Meghan and myself had a little boy early this morning — a very healthy boy,” […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has disclosed how Lagosians can unseat godfathers in politics of the State. The governor spoke yesterday in Lagos at an event organised by the Bridge Club tagged: “An evening with His Excellency, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State.” He noted that the key to defeating godfathers was […]
Continue ReadingForty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames just after takeoff from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Dramatic video shows passengers using emergency exit slides to escape the burning Aeroflot aircraft. Survivors suggest the plane was struck by lightning, but Russia’s national carrier said that it returned to the airport […]
Continue ReadingThe Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of New Telegraph Newspapers, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, has been re-elected President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE). Egbemode won the position unopposed at the guild`s 2019 Biennial Convention at the weekend in Lagos. The convention with theme: “Media Convergence as Strategy for Survival,’’ had hundreds of editors in attendance. Other officials […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and activist, Femi Falana SAN, has mocked the position of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the nationality of Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former vice president. He spoke at the weekend during a press freedom conference organized by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ). Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are […]
Continue ReadingThe Director of Strategic Communication of the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization, Festus Keyamo SAN, has reacted to a recent report where Yusuf Buhari, son of President Buhari was reported to have emerged as the fourth richest child of sitting presidents, purportedly rated by Forbes. Keyamo accused the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has departed London, United Kingdom, for Nigeria after his private visit that sources have confirmed was a medical trip, according to SaharaReporters. His plane, a Boeing 737 Business, is said to have left Standsted Airport in London at about 12:20pm. On April 24, Buhari had left the country for London without […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday remembered his former principal, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The late president, Musa Yar’Adua passed away on May 5, 2010. Jonathan, in a Facebook post, hailed the former Katsina Governor who later became Nigerian president for his service to the country. He wrote: “On this day nine […]
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