Ekiti State Police Commissioner, Ogundare Dare, has vowed to apprehend the perpetrators of a broad daylight bank robbery in Ikere-Ekiti on Wednesday. In a press release late Wednesday via the command X account, Dare said he expressed “displeasure over the ugly incident” and has ordered a full-scale investigation to “ensure the perpetrators are trailed, arrested…
Paris Saint-Germain scraped into the Champions League last 16 on Wednesday after a 1-1 draw at Borussia Dortmund as Newcastle lost to AC Milan in the group’s other game. In danger of a first group-stage exit since the Qatari takeover in 2011, PSG came from a goal down to earn the point that sent them…
Osun state government has officially unveiled a policy document on the safe termination of pregnancy for legal indications. Speaking of behalf of the State government during the unveiling ceremony which took place at the local government service commission hall, Abere on Tuesday, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Adekunle Akindele urged…
The ruling party in Osun State, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the unempathetic APC in the state about an attempt to use the issue of O’meal as an avenue to score a political point. The recent incident of food poisoning affecting some pupils of St James Primary School, Owoope, Osogbo, is an unfortunate…
*Says it‘ll compound socio-economic woes of Nigerians The Organised Labour has objected the planned privatization of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, as announced by the Federal Government, warning that among others, it would worsen the socio-economic conditions of Nigerians. President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, said the planned privatization portends great danger…
The Federal Government on Wednesday approved the exemption of universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions of learning from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. It said, henceforth, remunerations to staff members of these institutions would no longer flow through the platform. The Minister of the Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris,…
Poland’s president on Wednesday swore in Donald Tusk as the new pro-EU prime minister, putting an end to eight years of right-wing populist rule. The ministers of the new administration were successively sworn in by the conservative head of state, who is allied with the previous government of the Law and Justice (PiS) party. Tusk,…
…Insists Defected Rivers Lawmakers Automatically Vacated their Seats The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demands that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should immediately commence the process of conducting fresh elections into the 27 State Constituencies in Rivers State which have become vacant by reason of the defection of the 27 former State lawmakers in the…
Goods worth several millions of naira have been destroyed in a fire incident that occurred at the Enugu Motor Spare Parts Market, known as Tinker. The fire also claimed the life of the watch officer of the State Fire Service, Chigozie Ugwu slumped and died after he and his group successfully stopped the fire. According…
A 200-level student of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan (UI) in Oyo State, has been arrested by the institution’s security officials for allegedly raping a 100-level colleague within the campus. It was gathered that the student was reported to the authorities of the institution for committing the crime against his colleague who is…
