Breaking: Ekiti Assembly Sacks Speaker, Deputy
Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Kola Oluwawole and his deputy, Sina Animasaun have been impeached. The two lawmakers were impeached this afternoon by 14 members of the house. Subsequently, a member of the house, Mr Adeniran Alagbada, representing Ise Constituency has been installed as the new Speaker and Segundo Adewunmi has […]
Flights Grounded as Aviation Unions Shut Down Lagos Airport
Hundreds of air passengers were on Wednesday stranded as protesting aviation unions shut down operations at the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 operated by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited. The unions embarked on the protest alleging that BASL sacked 20 of its employees unjustly. The protesting unions are the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air […]
Breaking: Court Nullifies Rivers APC Primaries
Justice Chiwendu Nworgu of the High Court in Port Harcourt has made a consequential order nullifying all actions taken by the Ojukaye Flag Amachree led All Progressives Congress in Rivers state. Justice Nworgu ordered that the nomination and subsequent election of candidates for the Governorship seat and all elective positions in the APC in the […]
Sounding the Climate Alarm By Nnimmo Bassey
The Climate alarm could not have been much louder than the special report (SR15) that has just been released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). While the Paris Agreement presented the famous target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or well below 2.0 degrees, the special report shows that such […]
CACOL Urges EFCC to Intensify Probe of Oshiomhole
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate allegations of fraud leveled against the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. This was contained in a press release issued Wednesday by, CACOL’s Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran. According to the CACOL boss: “Our call […]
WAEC Sets to Publish Names of Cheating Students
The West African Examination Council, WAEC, said it has resolved to commence publishing names of students involved in malpractices during its examinations. WAEC’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr Demianus Ojijeogu, said the resolution was one of the decisions reached at the 66th Nigeria Examinations Committee, NEC, held at Ogba, Lagos. Ojijeogu explained that the publication […]
Bamidele Aturu Lives On: Receives Post-Humous Honour
The authorities of the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, will on Wednesday (today) October 10, 2018, confer a Post Humous Lifetime Achievement Award on the late human rights activist and patriot, Bamidele Aturu. This is contained in a letter to the deceased widow, Mrs Adebimpe Aturu, dated September 24, 2018, from Professor Olukoya Ogen, the […]
2019 Polls: Afenifere Parleys OBJ
Top members of the Pan Yoruba Socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun, ostensibly in search of direction to follow ahead of the 2019 polls. The meeting which started around 3.30 p.m lasted about two hours. Yinka Odumakin, who addressed newsmen on behalf of the […]
Human Trafficking: Immigration Nabs 8 Ghanaian Ladies at Lagos Airport
The eagle-eyed officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have arrested eight Ghanaian ladies for attempted human trafficking at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The eight ladies were arrested as they attempted to pass through Lagos Airport to Kuwait, where they intended to cross to Europe for prostitution before they […]
Police Arraign 2 Brothers for Alleged $50,000 Fraud
Two brothers, David Okwuanalu, 26, and Graham Mike Okwuanalu, 28, were today, arraigned before a Federal High Court, Lagos, for allegedly defrauded two Bureau De Change Operators of $50, 000, USD fraud. The Okwuanalu brothers were arraigned before Justice Babs Kuewumi by men of the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (FCIID), Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos, on […]
