Police in Zimbabwe have arrested 41 election monitors for allegedly trying to disrupt the voting process. Those being held, from civil society groups, were allegedly co-ordinating the release of results from Wednesday’s general election, police say. They are being charged with breaking electoral law, their lawyers say. Civil society groups have tried to do their…
A team of highly skilled medical practitioners have executed the first successful womb transplant in the history of the United Kingdom on the sisters. According to BBC, the woman the womb was transplanted into had her first period two weeks after the surgery. The transplant took place in February at Oxford’s Churchill Hospital by a…
Russian mercenary group Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was reported dead on Wednesday in a plane crash in Russia. He was said to be among the ten people on board a jet flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg. All seven passengers and three crew members were reported killed in the crash. Here are 10 things you…
A Chief Magistrate Court of Nasarawa State has quashed and set aside a warrant of arrest and remand against the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Duport Midstream Company Limited, Dr Akintoye Akindele. In Suit No: CMC/MG/CR/175/2023, the court on August 23, 2023, gave the order in the case between Akindele (defendant) and the Inspector General…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has promised that the State will be among the top ten in the ranking of the West African Examination Council(WAEC) before his first term ends. He said his administration will deploy all legal academic means that will return the past glory of the State in external examinations . Speaking…
Members of the fuel subsidy removal Palliative committee inaugurated by Governor Adeleke on Wednesday has urged the state government to put on hold the distribution of the three thousand(3000) bags of rice received from the federal government until the remaining fourteen thousand, three hundred and twenty (14,320) bags expected as the second batch are received….
The Academic Staff Union of Universities following a National Executive Council meeting held at the University of Maiduguri has asked the Federal Government through the office of the Accountant General of the Federation to release outstanding promotion arrears owed its members in the interest of industrial peace and harmony in Nigerian universities. The ASUU in…
There was panic in Tinumola area of Osogbo, the capital of Osun State on Wednesday when a tenant reported to be an officer of the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) allegedly stabbed his caretaker, Omosola Oladele after an argument over payment of an electricity bill. The crisis ensued on Tuesday night when fellow neighbours…
•••Committee to meet with labour unions, marketers, youths, other stakeholders on the distribution model The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke , who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Prince Kola Adewusi on Wednesday inaugurated a committee on the distribution of the federal government’s palliatives in the state. The Deputy Governor restating that the government is…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has banned street trading in Abuja. Wike revealed that corn sellers on the streets of Abuja serve as informants to criminals. The former Rivers State governor spoke during a meeting with the management staff of the Federal Capital Territory Administration and the Federal Capital Development Authority….
