Author: Ayorinde Oluokun
Police react to burning of INEC office in Ogun
Cp Lanre, who spoke to journalists after inspecting the burnt INEC office said police will ensure that there is no…
University of Ilesa: NUC presents Letter of Recognition to Oyetola
The presentation of the letter indicates successful completion of the formal documentary process into the establishment of University of Ilesa
Firm unveils plan to build $3bn refinery in Ogun
The refinery project would sit on 800 hectares of land that had already been acquired in Ipokia area of Ogun…
Gov. Ortom apologises over ‘Fulani’ comments
Ortom apologised to people who may have felt offended by the remarks on the Fulani people.
12 arrested over attacks on Atiku’s supporters in Rivers
Police said the 12 suspects are undergoing Investigation and those found culpable among them will be arraigned in court.
G-5 Governors still open for reconciliation on PDP crisis, says Wike
Wike declared that because the PDP integrity governors are the pillars of the party, they have kept their doors open…
Insecurity: IGP Alkali Baba deploys 3 armed drones ( Photos)
The newly acquired drones will surely assist the Police in monitoring active crime scenes, coordinating response operations, and providing armed…
Why PDP must pay N37.5m to display billboards, others – Kogi IRS
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP had raised on Tuesday raise alarm that KGIRS had written it requesting for payment of…
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner sent to Russian prison camp
Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport in February for allegedly possessing a small amount of marijuana.
Leather: $1bn revenue possible with ban on consumption of ‘ponmo’
The director-general said he would continue to engage key stakeholders in the crusade against the consumption of animal skin across…
Mother, 8 children burnt to death in apartment fire
The Governor of Bursa, Yakup Canbolat, said the 31-year-old mother, her six children and two nieces, were caught in the…
Unijos safe for students, staff, says VC
Ishaya commended the Plateau Government and security agencies over the relative peace currently being enjoyed in the state, and the…
Abuja gardener Sunday Apuye docked for theft of 12 air conditioners
By Hauwa Gold A gardener, Sunday Apuye, was on Wednesday docked in a Grade I Area Court in Karu, Abuja,…
Becca Balint to become Vermont’s first woman in U.S. Congress
Balint defeated Republican nominee Liam Madden and took over from Republican Peter Welch.
Nigeria’s public debt stock increases to N42.84trn in Q2 2022 – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) made the declaration in its Nigerian Domestic and Foreign Debt Report for Q2 2021…
How police busted 5-man Nigerian drug trafficking ring in South Africa
The Nigerians were arrested on Tuesday with drugs worth over half a million Rand found in their possession after their…
Control of U.S. Congress still in the balance in midterm elections
In the elections midway through Biden’s four-year term, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the…
Rivers govt to clamp down on substandard water factories
He said the government will set up an enforcement taskforce to enforce the policy.
Onitsha Fire explosion: 80 shops destroyed
Director/Fire Chief of Anambra Fire Services, Mr Martin Agbili in a statement signed by Agbili on Wednesday in Onitsha said…
Lagos launches novel Bail Information Management System
Justice Alogba said the system would also ease bail administration by automating otherwise manual processes for documenting and processing bails.
35th NAFEST: 15 states arrive Lagos, more expected – Runsewe
Runsewe said the states included: Rivers, Bayelsa, Ondo, Ekiti, Lagos, Benue, Abia, Kaduna, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Nassarawa, Jigawa, Katsina and…
COP27: Egypt, Norway unveil 100mw green hydrogen plant on Red Sea
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt and the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre at the launch of the project on…
NSCDC reacts to alleged killing of 3 youths in Bayelsa
NSCDC said its patrol team on pipeline surveillance duties was ambushed by gunmen who opened fire on them.
What the U.S told IGP Tafa Balogun on drug allegation against Tinubu in 2003
Touted as certified true copy, documents purported to be certified true copies of alleged involvement of drug trafficking by Asiwaju…
APC chieftain tasks youth on aggressive mobilisation for Tinubu
By Joan Nwagwu Mr Mark Tersoo, Director, Youth Mobilisation for North-Central, All Progressive Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council wants youths…
Floods: 27m children at risk, 840,000 displaced in Nigeria- UNICEF
According to the UN agency, the number of children affected by flooding in Chad, Gambia, Pakistan and northeast Bangladesh is…
Sanwo-Olu commits N200m to fund indigenous research in health
Prof. Akin Abayomi, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health said this on Tuesday.
Tinubu appoints Bagudu chair of committee on agric. development
The committee is to fashion out the blueprint for the agriculture sector
Ebonyi residents, motorists lament sudden hike in petrol price
The situation bites harder in the state as many filling stations continue to hoard the products.
EFCC: Committal order against Bawa so wrong
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has faulted the court order committing its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa for contempt over…