At least 1,147 Ogun State pilgrims have been airlifted back to Nigeria from Saudi Arabia after performing the Hajj rites in 2023. Tajudeen Asaye, the chairman of the State 2023 Ad-hoc Committee of the Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board in Ogun, revealed this on Monday. According to him, the committee took 1,238 pilgrims from Ogun for…
Organized Labour under the auspices of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Osun State Council, has justified the ongoing staff audit in the state public service, commending Governor Adeleke for his courage and persistence. In a press statement issued in Osogbo this morning, the TUC Chairman, Comrade Adekola Adebowale said critics of the exercise are…
No fewer than 380 Lagos State pilgrims that participated in the just concluded 2023 holy pilgrimage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia arrive Lagos, on Monday. The pilgrims departed King AbdulAzeez International Airport, Jeddah, aboard a Flynas airline XY 7656 at 11.30 am Saudi Arabian time, and touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport,…
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has written to the state House of Assembly requesting for an extension of his medical leave. The Speaker of the Assembly, Olamide Oladiji, confirmed the receipt of the letter in Akure, the state capital. Akeredolu said in the letter that the request was sequel to doctors’ advice on the…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari, over his declaration of Aisha Dahiru, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, as governor in the March 18 poll. Justice Donatus Okorowo made the order after Mr Michael Aondoaka, SAN,…
Former President Muhammadu Buhari has denied being in exile. Buhari described the report of him fleeing the country and in exile as false. Speaking through his former media aide, Garba Shehu, Buhari said there was no veracity in the report because he had returned home to Daura, Katsina State. In a statement, he said it…
A former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who was reported missing earlier on Sunday, has been found. Mr. Dipo Fasina, popularly known as ‘Jingo’ was declared missing on Saturday, July 1, in an incident confirmed by the incumbent President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke. The 76-year-old Nigerian scholar and activist was…
A member of staff of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Gold FM, Ilesa, Osun State, whose name could not be immediately ascertained, has been hospitalised after sustaining an injury in a fire that razed part of the station on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what caused the incident, but sources said loud noise…
A move by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun state to throw the state’s civil service into turmoil have met a brick wall as the Labour leaders turned down a N50 million financial inducement offer from the main opposition party. The APC approached some labour leaders in the state and sought to utilize the…
Aishatu y’an Guru Nahuce, a Nigerian pilgrim from Zamfara State, has reportedly returned $80,000 she found to the owner in Saudi Arabia. Independent Hajj Reporters of Nigeria disclosed this on its Facebook page on Saturday. The platform also shared the picture of pilgrim who hails from from Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara. The post…
