Author: Ayorinde Oluokun
Deregulation: Nigeria will save ₦1trn annually, create jobs – Sylva
By Deji Abdulwahab Mr Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources says the Federal Government’s decision to fully…
LG Chair accused of printing ‘Fayemi 2023 posters’ reinstated
By Idowu Gabriel Ekiti House of Assembly has through a unanimous resolution reinstated the suspended Ikere Local Government Area Chairman,…
Chocolate City boss, Audu Makori, announces death of father
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Chocolate City Group boss, Audu Makori has announced the death of his father, Mallam Adamu Maikori. The entertainment…
Police: Gunmen abduct 10 residents of Abuja community
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command said its operatives had rescued five out of the 10 residents…
Payroll fraud: 80 civil servants sacked in Niger
The Niger State Government has dismissed 80 civil servants for allegedly placing themselves on salaries above their current status. Hajiya…
Illegality of the National Water Resource Bill 2020
By Femi Falana Sometime in 2017, the Buhari administration forwarded the National Water Resource Bill to both chambers of…
Police speak on IPOB members detained in Enugu
By Stanley Nwanosike Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, CP Ahmad Abdurrahman, on Thursday said the police was treating the detained…
COVID-19: Medical workers get additional N8.9bn allowance
By Joan Nwagwu The Federal Government has approved additional N8.9 billion to pay up the large chunk of the June…
Trader bags 2 years jail term for stealing carrots
By Zainab Oyekan An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos on Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old trader, Abba…
Edo 2020: Butchers endorse Obaseki for 2nd term
By Imelda Osayande Butchers in Edo on Wednesday shutdown abattoirs, meat markets and shops in the state in solidarity for…
Gridlock: LASG to acquire 2000 units micro buses
By Adekunle Williams Dr Frederic Oladeinde, Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, says the state government plans to acquire 2000 units…
Suswam calls for probe of killing of Benue’s militant kingpin, Terwase
By Naomi Sharang The Chairman, Senate Committee on Power Gabriel Suswam has called for setting up of an independent judicial…
Another commissioner dumps Obaseki 10 days to election
By Jethro Ibileke Barely 10 days to the governorship election in Edo State, Governor Godwin Obaseki has again lost another…
Protesting electricity workers threaten to throw S-South into darkness
Okafor Ofiebor/ Port Harcourt Electricity workers have threatened to throw Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross River, the four states…
Edo: Bankers placed on high alert 10 days to election
The Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has asked Compliance officers of banks in the…
Controversies trail killing of wanted Benue crime kingpin, Gana
By Ayorinde Oluokun It was a controversial end for wanted Benue crime kingpin, Terwase Agwaza alias Gana on Tuesday as…
Ronaldo scores 100th goal for Portugal
Cristiano Ronaldo netted his 100th goal for Portugal in their Nations League clash away to Sweden on Tuesday. The goal…
FRSC to motorists: Pay outstanding traffic fines or risk arrest
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Zone 4 Command, has advised all traffic offenders earlier arrested but have yet to…
Edo 2020: Suit seeking Ize-Iyamu’s disqualification stalled
By Wandoo Sombo Hearing of a suit seeking to disqualify Mr Osagie Ize-iyamu from the Sept. 19 governorship election in…
Flood claims 25 lives, 51,000 houses in Jigawa – Badaru
By Abdullahi Mohammed No fewer than 25 persons killed and more than 51,000 houses destroyed by heavy rainfall in Jigawa.…
Bayelsa market fire: Victims count losses, beg for assistance
By Shedrack Frank and Nathan Nwakamma The Unified Non-Indigenes Association in Bayelsa has appealed to the state government to urgently…
Ngige: Resident Doctors had no reason to embark on strike
By Joan Nwagwu The Federal Government on Tuesday said it has already addressed six of the eight demands of striking…
Internet fraudster, native doctor arrested over rape of 6-year-old girl in Edo
By Jethro Ibileke A middle-aged man, Okehelem Oyenma, on Monday narrated how a suspected internet fraudster, otherwise known as Yahoo…
Four arrested over abduction, sale of 12 children in Gombe
By Hajara Leman Gombe State Police Command, on Monday paraded three women and one man for alleged complicity in the…
BBNaija: Adoration Ministry defends Fr. Mbaka
Ayorinde Oluokun Adoration Ministry Enugu has defended its Spiritual Director, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, over the controversies stirred by his…
Police bust ‘killer’ child trafficking syndicate in Rivers
* Suspect earlier arrested for kidnapping of a nursing mother and theft of her six months old child. Okafor Ofiebor…
Lagos East by-election: Gbadamosi emerges PDP candidate
By Adekunle Williams The PDP has announced Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi as its candidate for the Lagos-East senatorial by-election, scheduled for…
I gave wooden guns to movie makers, not kidnappers – Lecturer
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Controversy is trailing the parade of two movie producers, Samuel Bobmanuel and Justice Nwigbara, as alleged kidnappers…
Tinubu to S/West Govs: You must continue to demand for true fiscal federalism
The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has asked governors of the Southwest states…
Okonjo-Iweala: The woman for the toughest jobs
By Olalekan Adigun So much has been said and written about the person of Dr (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She is…