The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has shut down a branch of a popular food outlet, KFC, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos State. FAAN stated this on Thursday in a statement signed by its Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Mrs Obiageli Orah. The statement, titled, ‘FAAN shuts down KFC outlet at MMIA,’ noted…
A monster fundraiser for one, a tribute to a fallen police officer for the other, President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump will be on the campaign trail in New York on Thursday. The 81-year-old Democrat Biden will take part in a fundraising evening alongside two of his predecessors, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama….
A 48-year-old evicted tenant, Paul Orizu, was arraigned by the police before the Ebute-Metta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Wednesday for stealing electrical fittings worth N500,000 from his former apartment. The defendant is facing charges of repossession, breach of peace, and stealing preferred against him by the police. The prosecutor, Supol Chinalu Uwadione, told…
● Osun to Issue Executive Order to Free Unjustly Incarcerated Women ● Osun to Set up Mobile Courts on Sexual Based Violence ● Federal Ministry to Empower Osun Women with Empowerment Equipment – The government of Osun state and the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs today engaged in marathon Intergovernmental discussion on women development with…
As part of efforts to rid the state of dirtiness and indiscriminate dumping of refuse, the Osun State Government has reintroduced monthly environmental sanitation in the state. The government also introduced environmental Marshals that will be in charge of the street cleaning across the 30 local government, including area office. Speaking with newsmen in Osogbo,…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has on Tuesday inaugurated the Governing Board of Osun Health Insurance Agency (OSHIA) The Governor, who was represented at the event by his deputy, Prince Kola Adewusi at the swearing in program which held at the Governor’s office welcomed the board and advised them to deliver on their work…
An headless and armless corpse of a woman was on Tuesday found behind shops opposite Osogbo Local Government Secretariat in Okebaale, area of Osogbo, Osun State capital. Findings by SAHEL STANDARD revealed that the woman was an homeless person and had been in the area for months. A few residents of the area, who spoke…
A Kano-based High Court on Tuesday pronounced a death sentence by hanging on Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, 47, who stabbed his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, to death. A resident at Kano Railway quarters, Geng-Quangrong, was convicted on one count charge bordering on culpable homicide. While delivering judgment, Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji, upheld that the prosecution…
Britain’s head of state, King Charles III, will attend an Easter Sunday church service, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday, in his most high-profile engagement since revealing a cancer diagnosis. Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, will attend the Easter Mattins Service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle — a long-standing annual tradition of Britain’s royal…
Governor Ademola Adeleke has vowed to revive the abandoned upgrading project for the nine technical colleges in Osun state, requesting the consultant to mobilise to the state for the completion of the project. “We cannot afford to abandon such a lofty project. We need technical colleges more than ever before to address the increasing joblessness…
