The Federal Government has announced Friday 7 and Monday 10, April 2023 as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known in Abuja on Wednesday. Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Begore, on Wednesday, urged Christians to emulate the virtues of…
Tech executive and investor who worked on the Android and Cash apps, Bob Lee, has been stabbed to death in San Francisco. The 43-year-old founder was killed at 2:35am on Tuesday when officials were called to the 300 block of Main Street near the entrance of a high-rise, according to DailyMail on Wednesday. When the…
By Sarafa Ibrahim My attention has been drawn to a reckless and immature attempt to drag the Spokesperson of Governor Ademola Ademola, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, into an innocent questions posed to the media aide of former Governor Gboyega Oyetola, Mr. Ismail Omipidan, by a civil group, Osun Democrats for Democratic (ODD). I can understand the…
As part of making life easier for his people, The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has approved free train ride for indigenes of the state who resides in Lagos and other South West States and are willing to come home to celebrate Easter with their families and friends. This was contained in a release…
The Plateau state police command has sealed the house of assembly complex. This is as a result of the ongoing speakership crisis. A team of anti-riot pilice men arrived at the assembly complex by 5am and barricaded the main entrance. Though the police command is yet to issue an official statement on the action, Daily…
In order to make life easier for his people, the Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke has approved free train ride for osun indigenes in Lagos and other South West States willing to celebrate Easter festival with their families in Osun state. In a release signed by the Spokesperson to the Governor,…
After a lull in the activities of bandits, the hoodlums have again launched attacks in parts of the country. Residents of Awon in Kaduna State, in this report by SOLOMON ODENIYI and GODWIN ISENYO, explain how eight students of the Government Secondary School Awon in the Kachia Local Government Area were abducted on Monday. The…
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Muhammed Sanusi, has said Nigeria has never been this divided since the Civil War of 1967 to 1970. He said the country, because of the elections, was now “dangerously divided along ethnic and religious lines”, adding that it had put the integrity of public institutions in…
No fewer than six persons have lost their lives in a ghastly auto crash that occurred at Iwaraja junction (Igbelajewa) area, Ipetu- Ijesha route of Osun State. The Superintendent Route Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) who is also the Federal Sector Public Education Officer of the the Corps, Mrs. Agnes Ogungbemi, made…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted bail to popular Instagram ‘relationship expert’ Blessing Okoro for alleged cyber-bullying. The Instagram influencer, according to the Lagos State PPRO, Benjamin Hundeyin, was arrested by operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID). Rotshang Dimka, the prosecution counsel, had told the court that Blessing used her…
