Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with four counts of treason in connection with an attempted coup. Last November, gunmen broke into a military armoury and several prisons in Freetown, freeing almost 2,000 inmates. He has denied any involvement in the attack which killed about 20 people. West African leaders had…
The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old notorious Iceland cult leader, terrorising Eleme Area of the state, Barikui Amanyie, aka ‘Lawyer’ in Eleme. The arrest was in response to a directive given by the Commissioner of Police, CP Olatunji Disu, to tactical units and Divisions to intensify efforts to apprehend all wanted criminals…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Osun State Command, on Wednesday rescued a middle aged woman who jumped into Osun river at Gbodofon area of Osogbo in a bid to commit suicide. A statement by the Osun NSCDC Spokesperson, ASC Adeleke Kehinde, said officers of the NSCDC command pulled the woman out of…
By Alalade B. Felix In the political landscape of Osun State, the dynamic between former Governor Rauf Aregbesola and the his successor Governor Adegboyega Gboyega Oyetola within the All Progressives Congress (APC) has become a focal point, setting the stage for a potential power struggle in the upcoming 2024 as the struggle to rescue the…
● Set up monitoring and evaluation team on cabinet members ● Council approves Appointment of six new traditional rulers ● Council elevates 11 rulers to part 2 statuses ●Orders inquiry into koka stool Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun state has read riot act to the members of the State Executive Council on service delivery, setting…
Osun state government on Wednesday approved the appointment of six new traditional rulers and elevated eleven others. The government, in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, gave the approval yesterday, at its 2024 first Executive Council meeting, held in Osogbo. According to the statement, all the appointments take…
The Omoluabi Caucus in the Osun All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed concern that the seeming determination of a handful political neophytes led by a former governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola, to bring the party down at all cost for their selfish interests. It however noted that all efforts by Oyetola to denigrate the…
Over the last two years, jihadists have carried out attacks beyond their stronghold in northeast Borno State, the heart of the country’s 14-year-long Islamist militant conflict. Suspected terrorists abducted an unspecified number of traders travelling along the Kaduna- Birnin Gwari Road Twelve persons have been killed with two others injured in a fresh Boko Haram…
In a recent development, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and fuel marketers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, on Tuesday, clashed again over the removal of subsidy on petrol. The Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives Company, Bismarck Rewane, had during a live television programme on ChannelsTV on Sunday, explained that…
Cash withdrawals will not be possible from accounts opened for virtual and digital assets transactions, the Central of Nigeria has disclosed. Withdrawals from these accounts will only be possible by transfer or through a manager’s cheque, the apex bank explained. It revealed this in a new ‘Guidelines on Operations of Bank Accounts for Virtual Assets…
