Again, Insurgents Kill 26 in Adamawa
The Boko Haram insurgents have attacked Kudakaya, a village in Madagali LGA of Adamawa State, and killed 26 people. Madagali is in northern Adamawa LGA and not far from the Boko Haram enclave of Sambisa Forest in Borno State where the insurgents who launched the fresh attack on Madagali were said to have come from. […]
Arsonist’s Confession: I Burnt the Family Because Titi Aborted my 4-Month Pregnancy
Tears, more tears poured in Okitipupa Tuesday after arsonist Adedeji Williams Adenuga was paraded live on television by the police in Akure. The 40-year- old Adenuga set an entire family of nine ablaze in Ayeka-Igbodigo, near Okitipupa penultimate weekend even as more facts emerged as to why he took the dastardly decision. An ex-convict, Adenuga […]
Tramadol: FG Secures Zainab Aliyu’s Release
Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, says the Federal Government has secured the release of a Nigerian student, Zainab Habibu, who was detained in Saudi on suspicion of drug trafficking. Zainab, a student of Maitama Sule University, Kano, was arrested after a banned drug, Tramadol, was found in her bag. She […]
BREAKING: Senate Passes N8.916trn 2019 Budget
The Senate has passed the 2019 Appropriation Bill of N8.916 trillion. This is N86 billion higher than the proposal of N8.83 trillion presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly for the 2019 fiscal year. The lawmakers passed the bill during Tuesday’s plenary after considering the report of the Senate Committee on Appropriations on […]
Nigeria’s Population Hits 201 million -UNFPA
With an average population growth of 2.6 per cent between 2010 and 2019, Nigeria now has a population of about 201 million. The United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) unveiled this estimate in its 2019 State of the World Population report. The report said that Nigeria’s population grew by about 5 million people from 2018 when […]
Horror as Train Crushes 5 to Death in Lagos
Four passengers in a commercial tricycle and its rider were crushed to death by a speeding train this morning in Lagos. The incident happened around 7am at the Iju Ishaga area of the metropolis. Eyewitnesses said the tricycle rider was attempting to cross the railway when it got trapped and crushed. The eyewitnesses said while […]
Woman Resurrects After 27 Years in Coma
An Emirati woman has woken up from a coma, 27 years after a car crash which almost killed her. Munira Abdulla, then 32, was being driven back from her son Omar’s school when the car hit a school bus in the city of Al-Ain according to The National, a newspaper based in the United Arab […]
CACOL Commends LASU’s V C for Openness
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has lauded the free-style tactics employed by the Lagos state University (LASU) management, headed by its Vice Chancellor, Professor Olanrewaju Fagboun, in its response to alleged scandals of helping to falsify differentials in age of Professor Peter Okebukola, a former Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) […]
What’s Fayemi’s Interest in Us? (1) By Akogun Tai Oguntayo
This headline appears rhetorical, coming from a new political appointee but behold, it is not. Rather, it is a soul-searching question which I asked myself after seeing the torrents of comments and goodwill messages that greeted my appointment as the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media. There is no doubt that some people […]
I will Leave a Buoyant Ogun State for Dapo Abiodun – Amosun
Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun has pledged to hand over a very financial buoyant Ogun State to the Governor-elect, Dapo Abiodun as the next Governor of the state on May 28, 2019. He said his government would not allow a repeat of what he experienced when he was taking over from the then Governor, Gbenga […]
