Finland’s flag will be hoisted outside NATO headquarters on Tuesday when it becomes the newest member of the Western alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. “Tomorrow we will welcome Finland as the 31st member,” Stoltenberg told reporters on the eve of a historic meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s…
Kano State Executive Council has approved the appointment of Oba Moshood Aliiwo, the Olubadan of Ibadano and Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Vice Chancellor and INEC chairman as Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor/Chairman of the Governing Council of the state owned Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Kumbotso, respectively. This followed the receipt of operational license from the National…
Why Nigerians will not stop demanding for restructuring – Soyinka Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka said Nigerians will not stop demanding to restructuring of the Nigerian federation. Soyinka stated this during an interview on Channels Television’s programme, tagged, “Roadmap 2023.” The elderstateman’s comment is coming ahead of the inauguration of the new administration on…
The management of the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State said it had begun to grant its medical students study loans. It was gathered that the loans were meant for the students who are in final year and find it difficulty to pay their tuition fees. The Chief Medical Director of the teaching…
Singer Habeeb Okikiola popularly known as Portable has been granted bail by a High Court in Ifo, Ogun State. The Sahel Standard gathered that Portable landed in police custody on Friday, March 31, 2023, after his engagement with police officers at his bar, during which one of them was allegedly injured. The singer was subsequently…
Condemnations have continued to trail the decision of the management of Covenant University, owned by Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, to bar Hijab-wearing candidates from sitting for the Mock JAMB examinations at its campus in Otta, Ogun State. Daily Trust reports that the female candidates were delayed from entering the premises…
The Osun State Police Command on Sunday said its operatives rescued a woman, abducted along the Osogbo Ikirun/Road on Friday by gunmen. The PUNCH reports that an unspecified number of travellers were abducted at Ayepe Area, a community located along Osogbo/Ikirun road in the early hours of Friday. The Osun Police Command spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola,…
No fewer than nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria have been appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission to defend the results of the February 25 presidential election. The team, according to City Lawyer, is to be led by former Nigerian Bar Association President, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN). Other members of the team are Stephen Adehi (SAN),…
The founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, said on Sunday that he never campaigned for any politician or spoken on their behalf in the build-up to the 2023 General Elections in the country. Oyedepo said this while speaking to the congregation at the church’s headquarters, Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun State, in reaction…
The Shelleng Coordinator of Adamawa All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Senator Aishatu Ahmed Dahriu Binani in Shelleng Local Government of the State, Mustapha B Kiri has exonerated and distanced the Director General (DG) of Binani, Senator Ahmed Barata from any allegation of diversion of foodstuffs meant for campaign. Kiri said those rising frivolous allegations…
