Sports: Desmond Elliot, Others Call for ‘Early Start’, Hail Promasidor A Lagos State lawmaker, Desmond Elliot; the Executive Chairman of Lagos State Sports Council, Dr. Kweku Tandoh and a former President of the Athletes Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Mr. Toni Urhobo have advocated the articulation of programmes that would encourage and support kids who are talented in different sports. They ... Read More »
Africa’s leading entrepreneurship-focused philanthropic organisation, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), has announced October 25, 2018, as the date for its 4thannual TEF Entrepreneurship Forum. The largest gathering of African entrepreneurs and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem will unite over 5,000 entrepreneurs, global investors, leaders from the African public and private sectors and developmental organisations at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos. The ... Read More »
The Police in Ondo State say a suspected kidnapper who was arrested in a botched kidnap attempt in Owo is dead following complications from a high intake of Tramadol. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suspect had been unconscious since his arrest over the August 5 incident at a chemist in Owo. Femi Joseph, the Police Public Relations ... Read More »
It is necessary to respond to a tendentious story published today as cover choice by Daily Independent Newspaper. Under the headline, ‘Pressure mounts on Buhari not to seek re-election,’ the fiction parading as news claims that foreign powers, including the European Union, United States of America, United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia, are putting pressure on President Buhari not to seek ... Read More »
The week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015. Exactly a week ago, officers of the Department of State Security Services (DSS), acting under the instructions of their boss at the time, Lawal Daura, wearing hoods, stormed the premises of the National Assembly ... Read More »
Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta The Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo, is currently in a closed-door meeting with the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, at his presidential penthouse in Abeokuta. He arrived the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential library complex at exactly 1.10pm with his entourage. His visit might be connected with his presidential ambition. Read More »
The Kano state government said it has discovered the sum of over $1 million allegedly paid by former governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to a university in Ukraine where no Kano state student was studying. The senior Special Assistant to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Higher Education, Dr. Hussaini Akilu Jarma, let the cat out of bag, Tuesday, during the inauguration ... Read More »
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to immediately overhaul the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police. In a statement signed by his media aide, Laolu Akande, the Ag President said “any Unit that will emerge from the process, will be intelligence-driven and restricted to the prevention and detection of armed robbery and ... Read More »
…Suspect Charged To Court, Remanded In Prison In a rare show of patriotism and exemplary behaviour, the General Manager of King Solomon Chariots Transportation, Johnson Ogbonnaya has voluntarily handed over a driver of the company, Abuchi Okpara who absconded to Ghana after knocking down an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Ogunmeru Obafemi in Igando area ... Read More »
Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, Peoples Democratic Party(PDP)’s presidential aspirant, on Monday visited the former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, in Minna, a statement said. The statement was signed by Yusuf Abubakar, Director, Media and Publicity, Bafarawa Campaign Oragnisation(BCO) on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that Bafarawa’s Minna trip was in continuation of political consultations on his presidential aspiration in 2019. Abubakar ... Read More »
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