•Commercial operators to register motorcycle, obtain ID card, cycler permit number Oyo State House of Assembly has passed a bill stipulating that motorcycles are not expected to be on the roads beyond 10pm. The “Control of Commercial Motorcycles (Further Amendment) Bill, 2019,” passed into law at plenary held on Tuesday, prescribes fines ranging from N5,000…
The suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Adamawa State, Hudu-Yunusa Ari, has said he never regretted announcing Aisha Binani Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the 2023 governorship election in the state. Speaking in an interview with BBC Hausa on Tuesday, Ari maintained that he acted…
A yet-to-be-identified couple have welcomed their twin children, a girl and a boy, after 32 years of childlessness. A photographer, Zibah Photography, who snapped the couple and their children, shared the news via her Facebook account. She wrote, “ What God cannot do does not exist. God Bless this beautiful family with a bouncing beautiful…
President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking for the screening and confirmation of Abike Dabiri-Erewa for re-appointment as the Chairman/Chief Executive of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission for a second term. President Buhari’s letter was read yesterday by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan during plenary. According to the letter, the nomination is…
The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, who was alleged to have announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress winner of the governorship election during the recently concluded supplementary election. The FPRO made this known in a statement shared on…
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, today, dismissed an application for the stoppage of Osun PDP Ward, Local and State Congresses. Delivering his judgement, Hon. Justice Ayo Oyebiyi said there was no nexus between the reliefs sought by the applicants in the originating summons and the application for injunction. Some suspended members of…
British singer and songwriter, Ed Sheeran, 32, has vowed to quit music if found guilty of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get it On’. Ed Sheeran was accused of lifting a four-chord progression from the soul classic in his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’, by Townsend’s heirs, who claimed there are “striking similarities” between the tracks…
An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday remanded driver of a Lagos State Staff bus, Oluwaseun Osibanjo, for allegedly running into a moving train, causing grievous harm and involuntary manslaughter to the passengers. Justice Oyindamola Ogala, ordered that Osibanjo be remanded at the appropriate custodial centre, pending the filing and hearing of his bail application. Ogala…
Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has claimed that Nigeria is worse off for not having the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo as the President of the country. Sanusi stated this while speaking at a book launch titled: “Osinbajo Strides: Defining Moments of an Innovative Leader,” on Monday. According to the former governor of the…
The recent upsurge in police misconduct across the country is depressing and should motivate the police hierarchy to overhaul its recruitment, training, supervision, and disciplinary systems. Despite swifter response to public complaints in recent times, police officers on the field continue to exhibit highhandedness, abuse of power, extra-judicial killings, extortion, and disregard for civil rights….
