Justice Abiola Soladoye of Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos State on Thursday sentenced 26-year-old electrician, Sunday George, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter. Soladoye held that the prosecution sufficiently proved the charge of defilement against the convict who is “an irresponsible adult and a pathological liar whose testimony…
Dolores Aveiro, mother of football star Cristiano Ronaldo, has refuted claims that her son and longtime girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, is having problems in their relationship. According to reports in Spanish and Portuguese media last month, the striker was “fed up” with the Spanish model and influencer and they were said to be on the verge…
The management of Babcock University has said that the school’s website has been hacked by some unknown persons. The school management confirmed this development in a statement signed by the Director, Communication & Marketing of the institution, Dr Joshua Suleiman, on Wednesday. The statement read in part, “The public is hereby notified that the Babcock…
Nigeria’s first Olympic Gold medalist, Chioma Ajunwa, was on Thursday decorated as a Deputy Commissioner of Police. The officer was decorated by her new boss, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Frank Mba. Ajunwa made history as the first Nigerian to win gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and the first black African woman to…
The Osun State Police Command of Wednesday announced the arrest of a 24-year-old woman for impersonation The suspect allegedly impersonated as a police officer to rob different Point of Sale (POS) operators in Osogbo, the capital. Police Public Relations Officer, SP Yemisi Opalola told newsmen that she was taken into custody on Tuesday after her…
The leadership of the Traditional Religious Worshippers Association in Osun State has said necessary rites to further make the reign of the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, to be more peaceful would be done, assuring the state helmsman of their support. This was contained in a congratulatory message of the religious group to Adeleke on his…
Nine royal families which were excluded from the selection process of a new Alaafin have protested their exclusion from the process. The excluded royal families insist they are also entitled to the new seat. The Alaafin of Oyo stool became vacant as a result of the death of the 45th Alaafin, Oba Lamidi Atanda Olayiwola…
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and ex-National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Lai Olurode, on Wednesday, congratulated Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on his victory at the Supreme Court which affirmed his election. A congratulatory statement signed by Ooni’s spokesperson, Moses Olafare, then urged Adeleke to develop a robust partnership…
The President-elect Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, afternoon left Nigeria for Europe to avoid unnecessary pressures and distractions while he fine tunes transition plans and programmes, and also his policy options with some of his key aides. A statement signed by his media aide, Tunde Rahman, said the President-elect would also spend his stay in Europe…
Osun State office of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, on Wednesday, said it shut as many as 75 filling stations for various infractions in the state within one month. NMDPRA State Coordinator, Mr Kunle Adeyemo, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists on Wednesday on the activities of the agency in the…
