By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has expressed deep sadness over the death of Mrs. Angela Nwaka Folarin, wife of Senator Teslim Folarin representing Oyo Central Senatorial District. Tinubu’s condolence message to Senator Folarin was containedin a statement by his Media Office...
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The Anambra State Governor-Elect, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has called for a new liberation movement in Africa and Nigeria as a country, that would promote the selfless service of political leaders. Soludo was speaking at the 2021 Pioneer Class Graduation Ceremony of the School of Politics, Policy and Governance (SPPG)...
One person has been killed and three others injured in a duel between police operatives and gunmen suspected to be cultists in Kwara State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Saturday in Ilorin. He explained that the faceoff occurred...
By OLA MODUPE, Ado-Ekiti – The wife of Ekiti Governor, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, has dismissed the report making the rounds that she is interest in contesting for a Senatorial seat in the state. Mrs. Fayemi, who made this known in a statement issued on Saturday in Ado-Ekiti, said she...
By SAM ADZEGEH, Makurdi – Long suffering residents of Agber community in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, got a beautiful new year’s gift yesterday when they woke up to the sight and sounds of a gigantic caterpillar fully at work in the neighbourhood. This is as work resumed on...
Customers queuing to buy petrol on Wednesday at a filling station in Abuja were left distraught after learning that the fluid the pumps at the station were dispensing into their vehicles was not fuel. The drama occurred at the Azman Oil and Gas Ltd at Wuse Zone 5, Abuja,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has alerted Nigerians of a new high-risk, critical and Short Messaging Service-based malware, TangleBot, infecting Android mobile devices. TangleBot employs more or less similar tactics as the recently-announced notorious FlutBot SMS Android malware that targets mobile devices. TangleBot equally...
Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State have called for fervent prayers to an end to the spate of deaths in the state. They made the calls in separate statements on Friday in Ibadan following the sudden death in the UK of Angela, wife of...
The Senator representing Imo South Senatorial District, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, says the fact that Nigeria is passing through difficult moment does not mean that the nation is finished. Okorocha stated this on Friday in Abuja at the “2021 Our Nigeria News Awards“ organised by Our Nigeria Magazine with the...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on Friday flagged off the Sustainable Agricultural Empowerment Scheme (SADES), Community Based Agricultural Empowerment Scheme (CABES) Agricultural Enhancement Scheme (AES) and the Graduate Agricultural Empowerment Scheme (GARES) in Cross River State. Flagging off the orientation ceremony for the 108...
The Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, has urged Nigerians to support candidates who are God-fearing and have respect for humanity, in their quest for public offices. The governor made the call at the General Assembly of Catholics in Politics and Catholic Business Leaders in Abuja as contained in a...
Bayero University, Kano (BUK), has announced death of a final year student from the Department of Library and Information Science, Babangida Ahmad. The University’s Deputy Registrar in charge of Public Affairs, Mr Lamara Garba, made the announcement in a statement on Friday in Kano. He said that the deceased...
The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Alhaji Idris Ahmed, says President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s financial reform is yielding positive dividends Alhaji Ahmed also said that it has recorded commendable achievement in the management of scarce resources since assumption of office in 2015. He spoke at his investiture as...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with Sen. Teslim Folarin, the lawmaker representing Oyo Central senatorial district, over the demise of his wife, Angela Folarin. The president’s condolence message was contained in a.statement issued his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Friday in Abuja. The statement...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has condoled with Sen. Teslim Folarin over the death of his wife, Mrs Angela Folarin. The wife of the lawmaker representing Oyo Central Senatorial District died on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 in the U.K In...
The €250,000,000.00 fraud trial involving a Malaysian, Tan Ah Chai Richard (now late), and his company, Coastal Asia Investments Limited, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has been adjourned till March 4, 2022 for continuation of trial. Richard and his company were...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan b- Oyo State Governor, ”Seyi Makinde, on Friday, promised his administration’s support for his alma-mater, the University of Lagos, Akoka, to enable the institution to host the Nigerian Universities Games (NUGA). Governor Makinde, who stated this while receiving a delegation of the University, led by...
The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Friday, said its men intercepted a bus conveying religious books which contained cocaine weighing 11.913 kilogrammes with a street value of N3.9billion. In a statement by the spokesman of the command, Hussain Abdullahi, a copy of which was...
A tanker laden with substance suspected to be Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, has exploded in Anambra State. According to reports, the incident occurred on Friday morning at the Upper Iweka junction of Onitsha – the state’s commercial hub. The South East Zonal Coordinator of the...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) women have vowed to mobilize over 45 million young Nigerian women to support the women folks in the forth coming 2023 general elections and to champion the marginalisation of women. The women under the aegis of PDP Angels and...