Liverpool Bash Barcelona 4-0 To Reach Champions League Final
Liverpool produced one of the most stunning comebacks in Champions League history as Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum scored twice to beat Barcelona 4-0 and progress to the final for the second consecutive year 4-3 on aggregate on Tuesday. The Reds not only had a mountain to climb on the scoreboard but were deprived of […]
2019 Elections: UK Spent £795 Million on ‘NotTooYoungToRun’ Movement – Envoy
The United Kingdom had spent £795 million (N373.6Billion) to prosecute the #NotTooYoungToRun movement, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, said on Tuesday. THE PUNCH reported that the #NotTooYoungToRun movement led to the emergence of young legislators in the just-concluded 2019 elections. The Envoy also encouraged incoming legislators to support each other, particularly the […]
Alleged Forgery: Court Admits Adeleke to N2m Bail
An Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday admitted Senator Ademola Adeleke, the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2018 Osun governorship election, to bail in the sum of N2million. The Police arraigned Adeleke in an Mpape Chief Magistrates’ Court on five counts of certificate forgery. Adeleke was charged with alleged false statement […]
My Abductors took N5m Ransom Before Releasing Me —OAU Lecturer
An orthopaedic surgeon at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Olayinka Adegbehingbe, who was kidnapped on Sunday, said that N5.045m was paid to secure his release. Adegbehingbe disclosed this on Tuesday in Ile-Ife in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at his residence on the university campus. The surgeon, who said he was hale and […]
NUT Begs JAMB to Release Results of Innocent UTME Candidates
The chairman of the National Union of Teachers has urged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to release the results of candidates who were not involved in examination malpractices during the 2019 UTME. NUT chairman for Lagos State wing, Mr. Adesina Adedoyin, made the appeal on Tuesday in Lagos in an interview with the News Agency […]
Kidnapping on Highways in the Yoruba West:: We are Back to the Slave Trade Era
By Jiti Ogunye In the Trans-Atlantic slave trade era, slave raiders, called “ ipata” used to harvest people on footpaths and on farms in the Yoruba heartland. Their preference were strapping young men and women and children. Successful, they moved their captives to the coastal settlements of Lagos and Badagry to be traded and shipped […]
Homosexuality: Anglican Church Sacks 2 Priests in Abia
The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has dismissed two priests over alleged acts of homosexuality. The duo’s dismissal was contained in a letter dated April 29, 2019 to all bishops and archbishops of the church by the bishop of Arochukwu/Ohafia diocese, Right Rev. Johnson Onuoha. The names of the affected priests were given as Rev. […]
Kidnapped OAU Don Regains Freedom
Prof. Olayinka Adegbehingbe, an orthopedic surgeon at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife in Osun State, who was abducted by unknown gunmen Sunday has regained his freedom. A family source who sought to be anonymous disclosed the news of his release but declined to confirm if any ransom was paid for his release. […]
PDP Kicks as Police Detain Senator Adeleke
The Peoples Democratic Party today protested the arrest and detention of its candidate in the Osun Governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, by the police. The party described the police action as a total disregard for the subsisting order of the Federal High Court. Adeleke, the Senator representing Osun west at the Senate, had honoured an […]
Lawyers Charged with Over 11 Million Naira Fraud Get Bail
Two lawyers Feranmi Isaiah Akinluyi and Sogo Akinola, a.k.a Obaje, suspected to have defrauded one Kelechi Okani Darlington of the sum of 11,880,000 naira have been granted bail. This is the ruling by Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja following the bail application of the duo. The court, yesterday granted temporary […]
