A Comorian football fan who was shot by security forces holding off a rush of supporters at a stadium before a World Cup qualifier has died, his family said on Tuesday. Fahad Moindze, 21, died in hospital in Tanzania, where he was airlifted last Thursday suffering from a wound to the head, a relative told…
Justice Kuteyi of an Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure on Tuesday sentenced one Abayomi Joseph to death by hanging for killing his neighbor. The convict was found guilty of hacking to death one Thomas Oluwole, who was his neighbour, with a machete, in 2021, at the Ijoka area of Akure, following an allegation…
The Osun State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi has lauded Governor Ademola Adeleke’s led administration for performing excellently well across all sectors despite facing challenges of paucity of fund and huge debt inherited from the All Progressive Congress, APC led administrations in the state. The Commissioner, disclosed this during a media press…
The Special Adviser to Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke on Public Health, Dr. Adekunle Akindele has congratulated him for successfully marking one year in office. In a congratulatory message signed by him on Monday, he wrote: Dear Excellency Governor Senator Ademola Adeleke, Congratulations on the successfully completion of your first year in office as the…
Subair Enitan, a 200-level student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Osun state, early midnight on Monday completed her 58 hours of individual hand wash-a-thon. This is in a bid to set a record for the longest hand cloth washing by an individual after applying to the Guinness World Record for the task last June. She…
The number of dependents from Nigerian students has been the highest among other foreign students in the United Kingdom, rising from 1,427 in 2019 to 60,506 at the end of September 2023. This was disclosed in a report issued by the UK government adding that the unprecedented surge of dependents of Nigerian foreign students exceeded…
The Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General for Osun state, Barrister Oluwole Jimi-Bada while congratulating the performing Governor of Osun state, Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke on his first year in office, has described the numerous achievements of the governor within the last year in the state as remarkable and a good step in the right…
Today, Monday, November 27, makes it exactly a year since Ademola Adeleke was inaugurated as the Governor of Osun State. In this interview with journalists before embarking on a working vacation to Europe and Asia where he said he is scheduled to meet investors and development partners, Governor Adeleke bares his mind on his achievements…
A Thai para-athlete, Chaturong Suksuk shot his bride, and two others dead before killing himself on the wedding day. According to BBC, the 29-year-old Chaturong was a former soldier who got married to a 44-year-old Kanchana Pachunthuek on Saturday in north-east Thailand. The police said he left the wedding party unexpectedly and returned with a…
*Consumer loans up 34% as inflation, naira depreciation eat up households’ income Consumer loans booked by banks’ customers rose by 34 per cent, year-on-year, to N2.64 trillion in the first half of this year, H1’23, driven by increased demand from households compelled to depend more on borrowing to survive higher cost of living. The pressure…
