Author: Biyi Lawrence
Four passengers including a pregnant woman and her two children have reportedly lost their lives, after a car drove into the tricycle they were in at the Ago Palace Way of Okota, Lagos state. According to a user of X #tobe_stevee on Tuesday morning, a policeman and driver were contesting for the steering wheel while in motion when they lost control and hit a tricycle with passengers in it. He wrote: “Something happened at my area this morning. A driver was arrested by the police, one of them got into his car, while the others followed, on the way to…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s legal counsel have insisted that the academic records a US magistrate court ordered their principal to provide would not be relevant in Atiku Abubakar’s appeal at the Supreme Court. Voiceofnaija.ng reports that Atiku had earlier secured an order from a US magistrate for CSU to make Tinubu’s academic records available to his legal team. The magistrate, Jeffrey Gilbert, had ordered Tinubu’s alma mater to provide all relevant and non-privileged documents to Atiku’s legal team within two days. The documents sought by the PDP candidate through his counsel, Angela Liu, include Tinubu’s record of admission and acceptance…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has described fuel subsidy as an organised crime. Obi said this on Monday, while speaking on Arise TV ‘The Morning Show’ on what approach he would have taken differently in resolving the looming strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress. READ ALSO: Subsidy Removal Protest Under Jonathan Was All Politics — Ex-Ekiti Gov Fayemi “Fuel subsidy is organised crime. I said it repeatedly that it should be removed. For me, the approach would have been, is to remove…
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has felicitated with Ilebaye Odiniya, winner of the Big Brother Naija All-Stars Season. The 22-year-old graduate of Criminology from Salem University, Lokoja, was crowned the winner of the reality TV show on Sunday, 1 October, 2023. The governor described Ilebaye as a true trendsetter. He believes her victory unequivocally confirms her brilliance, unwavering perseverance, and commendable humility. This was contained in a statement by the chief press secretary to the governor, Onogwu Mohammed, issued on Monday in Lokoja. The statement read, “I am delighted to congratulate one of our own in Kogi State,…
There was jubilation in Araromi-Okeodo, a community in Ife-South Local Government Area of Osun State following the supply of electricity to the town for the first time after 91 years. Many residents of the community described the feat as “miracle of the century” as they troop out en mass to jubilate the development at the weekend. The Monarch of the town, Oba Abbas Akanbi, the Alara of Araromi-Okeodo, led his chiefs and subjects to the off-grid location of the 50-kilowatt sholep energy firm that is responsible for the feat during its inauguration. Oba Akanbi told newsmen that he did not…
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has issued a statement on the state of the nation as Nigeria marks its 63rd independence anniversary. Read the full statement below:63RD INDEPENDENT DAY MESSAGE TO ALL NIGERIAN WORKERS AND PEOPLE BY THE NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS (NLC) NIGERIA: THE TRAVAILS OF A MISMANAGED GIANT Our nation with all its flaws at conception possesses a great potential to be amongst the best economies of the world. It had the promise of a nation destined to be prosperous and continually developing. At independence, it began to demonstrate the signs that it was going to fulfill these expectations…
Jonathan Quiles, a 38-year-old man in Jacksonville accused of impregnating and then killing his teenage niece has been found guilty of first-degree murder in Florida. He was also found guilty of sexual battery and the murder of the teen’s unborn child after the Florida jury deliberated for about an hour. Iyana Sawyer was 16-years-old when she disappeared in 2018. Though her body has never been found, a jury has concluded that Quiles killed her and her unborn child sometime in December of that year. Ms Sawyer was last seen on December 19, 2018. She left her high school during her…
Actors Uche Jombo and Alesh Sanni, have reacted to video clips of some youths who were teargassed at Lekki toll gate after Mohbad’ski candlelight procession last night. In a post shared on his Instagram page, Alesh argued that it was a candlelight procession and not a protest so people were not supposed to have gathered at the tollgate. He wrote: “You guys missed the point of this whole thing!!!! This is Candle Night and not Protest!! The initial walk that was supposed to replace the Protest was cancelled just becos of something like this… This is candle night and not…
IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Haruna Garba, has ordered a thorough investigation into the death of an undergraduate, Blessing Moses. The Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, SP Josephine Adeh, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Adeh said the investigation is to unravel the circumstances surrounding the untimely death of the undergraduate of the National Open University of Nigeria. “Our commitment to this case is unwavering and we are determined to uncover both the immediate and remote causes of this tragic incident.…
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame hopes to extend his 23-year rule, by seeking seek re-election in 2024. Kagame, who became president in 2000, is eligible to continue in office for another decade after presiding over controversial constitutional amendments in 2015 that allowed him to run for more terms and stay in power until 2034. He was asked in an interview with the pan-African Jeune Afrique magazine published on Tuesday about his intentions for next year’s election. “Yes, I am indeed a candidate,” Kagame, who has ruled over the country with an iron fist for decades, told Jeune Afrique, a French-language news…