Former Nigerian Super Eagles assistant coach, Ben Duamlong, 70, has bagged a first class in Painting at the University Of Jos. Duamlong made the list of 112 students who bagged first class out of 20,532 students that graduated from the university in 2023. After retiring as a football coach of the national team in 2014,…
Members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, on Thursday, paid a courtesy visit to the former President, Muhammadu Buhari, at his residence in Daura, Katsina State. Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun; Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Imo state governor; Hope Uzodinma, were among those that visited the former president. Credit: Facebook | Buhari Sallau
A Lagos state High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Wednesday adjourned till July 13 for the adoption of final written addresses by prosecution and defence counsel in the ongoing trial of an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem, on December 25, 2022. Justice Ibironke Harrison…
President Bola Tinubu has appointed the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, as his Chief of Staff. Femi Fani-Kayode, one of the President Tinubu ally confirmed the appointment in a twitter post on Thursday. He simply wrote: ” Congratulations to my friend and brother of over 40 years, the Hon. Speaker of…
The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED) has condemned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s immediate announcement of subsidy removal. In a statement, Executive Director of the centre, Dr. Ibrahim Zikirullahi, said the President’s action amounts to inflicting fresh round of pains, suffering, and misery on Nigerians. “The President’s unilateral pronouncement at the outset…
The first witness of the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in his petition against the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, told the Presidential Election Petition Court on Thursday that he and other agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), were forced to sign the result sheets of the last presidential election in their separate…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are currently quizzing a former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, over misappropriation of funds to the tune of N4 billion. Our correspondent learnt that Fayemi, also a former Minister of Mines and Steel Development during President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term, was still undergoing interrogation at…
A human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has described as “pure political vendetta”, the recent raid by the police on the Ibadan residence of the former Chairman of the Oyo State Park Management System, Lamidi Mukaila, popularly known as Auxiliary. In a statement on Thursday, Olajengbesi, who is the Senior Partner at Abuja-based law firm, Law…
The Presidential Election Petition Court on Thursday admitted in evidence bundles of electoral documents from 6 states of the federation that emanated from the February 25 elections. The documents which consisted of forms EC8A which are polling units results were tendered by the Labour Party and its presidential candidate in the last election, Peter Obi,…
