Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke’s visit to Iwo, the political headquarters of Osun West senatorial district on February 15 to flag off Imole Free Medical and Surgical treatment was without a premonition that a sustainable, live-saving intervention was on its way to the community. As a people-centred administrator, His Excellency was going on an unscheduled…
Popular actress Tonto Dikeh has announced her third liposuction surgery. She announced this in a video detailing her entering and being in the theatre for the surgery that she posted on her Instagram page. She explained that she had been attempting to burn her ‘stubborn’ tummy fat, adding ”it has not been easy”. The actress/musician…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted between Tuesday and Monday. The board noted that the released results excluded those of candidates who were rescheduled to take their examination on Saturday. It said the results of those absent and those under investigation,…
•Commercial operators to register motorcycle, obtain ID card, cycler permit number Oyo State House of Assembly has passed a bill stipulating that motorcycles are not expected to be on the roads beyond 10pm. The “Control of Commercial Motorcycles (Further Amendment) Bill, 2019,” passed into law at plenary held on Tuesday, prescribes fines ranging from N5,000…
The suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Adamawa State, Hudu-Yunusa Ari, has said he never regretted announcing Aisha Binani Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the 2023 governorship election in the state. Speaking in an interview with BBC Hausa on Tuesday, Ari maintained that he acted…
A yet-to-be-identified couple have welcomed their twin children, a girl and a boy, after 32 years of childlessness. A photographer, Zibah Photography, who snapped the couple and their children, shared the news via her Facebook account. She wrote, “ What God cannot do does not exist. God Bless this beautiful family with a bouncing beautiful…
President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking for the screening and confirmation of Abike Dabiri-Erewa for re-appointment as the Chairman/Chief Executive of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission for a second term. President Buhari’s letter was read yesterday by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan during plenary. According to the letter, the nomination is…
The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, who was alleged to have announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress winner of the governorship election during the recently concluded supplementary election. The FPRO made this known in a statement shared on…
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, today, dismissed an application for the stoppage of Osun PDP Ward, Local and State Congresses. Delivering his judgement, Hon. Justice Ayo Oyebiyi said there was no nexus between the reliefs sought by the applicants in the originating summons and the application for injunction. Some suspended members of…
British singer and songwriter, Ed Sheeran, 32, has vowed to quit music if found guilty of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get it On’. Ed Sheeran was accused of lifting a four-chord progression from the soul classic in his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’, by Townsend’s heirs, who claimed there are “striking similarities” between the tracks…
