••• Commends security agencies for quelling conflict Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has directed the immediate establishment of three holding camps for displaced people from Ifon, Ilobu and Erin Osun. The Governor issued the directive on Wednesday after confirming the implementation of his earlier directive for the distribution of food and relief materials to the…
The Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday inspected the ongoing road dualisation of palace – brewery junction in Ilesa, directing the contractors to ensure standard work and timely completion of the project. Speaking while on an impromptu inspection of the project, the governor directed the contractor to speed up the work and deliver…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has directed all interested parties in the Kano Emirship tussle, to exercise caution pending the hearing of their appeals at the Supreme Court. The appellate court also stayed actions previously delivered against the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano. In a unanimous ruling delivered by…
One of South Korea’s worst-ever wildfire outbreaks has killed at least 24 people, officials said Wednesday, with multiple raging blazes causing “unprecedented damage” and threatening two UNESCO-listed sites. More than a dozen fires broke out over the weekend, scorching wide swathes of the southeast, forcing around 27,000 people to urgently evacuate, with the fire cutting…
Troops of the special military task force, Operation Safe Haven, have nabbed two suspected killers of Rev. Fr. Sylvester Okechukwu. This is contained in a statement issued by the OPSH media officer, Maj. Samson Zhakom, on Wednesday in Jos. The News Agency of Nigeria repots that Okechukwu, a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Kafachan,…
A businessman, Sunday Okorie, collapsed in court on Wednesday while standing in the dock. Okorie had been arraigned before the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday for allegedly failing to declare $299,000 and being in possession of counterfeit foreign currency. Justice Deinde Dipeolu had ordered Okorie to be remanded after he pleaded not guilty…
The Edo State Police Command has launched a manhunt for a man identified as Wealth Nnamdi, who allegedly killed his pregnant fiancée, Osasu Isaac, and her three-year-old daughter, Miracle, in Benin City. The tragic incident, which occurred on Idiangbona Street in Ovbiogoe Community, followed a heated argument between the couple on March 16. Neighbours, who…
The Niger State Police Command has arrested a man, Mubarak, suspected to be mentally unstable for stabbing a 25-year-old man, Shamseen Danshehu, to death. The incident took place on Sunday evening in the Kwangila area of Minna, the state capital when Mubarak was said to have engaged Danshehu in a fisticuffs during which he allegedly…
The Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke has ordered the immediate distribution of food and relief materials to the displaced people of Ilobu, Ifon and Erin Osun. According to a statement by the Governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on Monday, the Governor has also issued a directive to the Commissioner of Police and the Director of…
Osun State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly breaching the ongoing dusk to dawn curfew imposed by the State Governor, Ademola Adeleke on some warring communities which includes Ifon,Ilobu and Erin-Osun. This was disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state command,…
