The House of Representatives has opposed the N4.79bn budgetary allocation for a presidential yacht contained in the N2.176trn supplementary budget for the 2023 financial year transmitted to it on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu. In passing the supplementary budget on Thursday, the House moved the sum proposed for the yacht to student loan, bringing the…

Osun State Government in partnership with World Bank, has screened over 300 rural women for breast and cervical cancer across three local government areas in the state. A 3-day sensitisation and awareness campaign program tagged Nigeria For Women Project and themed “Say No to breast and cervical cancer” was conducted in three local government areas…

The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has approved the appointment of members of non-statutory boards as well as Chairmen, Secretaries and members of Local Government Education Boards. In a statement issued on Thursday by the Spokesperson to the Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the governor directed that the appointments take immediate effect while…

A Sharia Court domiciled in the Kano State Hisbah Board in Sharada area of Kano, on Tuesday, sentenced eight cross-dressers to three-month imprisonment at a Correctional Centre with an option of fine. The sentencing of the offenders followed their admission of guilt during their arraignment before the Hisbah Shari’a Court. The presiding Judge, Khadi Tanimu-Sani,…

Afrobeat singer, Omorinmade Kuti, a.k.a Made Kuti, has tied the knot with his fiancée, Inedoye Onyenso. In a post on his Instagram handle in the early hours of Wednesday, Made wrote: “Today, a love story that began with two characters continues into one.” The couple had announced their engagement in November last year. Made Kuti…

The new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has directed that sting operations at night time be stopped in all the Commands of the Commission. According to a statement by the EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, the directive is in line with the newly-reviewed procedures on arrest…

The Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Prof. Simeon Bamire, has urged to students of the institution who were victims of the raid on some off-campus hostels along Ife/Ibadan Road by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to put the experience behind them and move on. Recall that…

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission has released 58 out of 69 students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, arrested earlier on Wednesday. SAHEL STANDARD earlier reported that the commission arrested no fewer than 70 students of the university.They were reportedly arrested by officials of the EFCC in a midnight raid on hostels outside the…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, said it has arrested 69 suspected internet fraudsters in Ile-Ife, Osun State. This was disclosed by the commission on its official website. “They were arrested on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, at Oduduwa Estate area of Ile-Ife, Osun State following actionable intelligence on their suspected involvement in fraudulent…

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has said a delegation from the school would visit the Ibadan Zonal Office the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, to profile those arrested in the early-hour raid on some hostels located outside the campus. Reacting to the issue, the Public Relations Officer of the university, Abiodun…