The Ekiti State Police Command said on Monday that the officer who fired the shots that injured former lawmaker, Opeyemi Bamidele, and five others at the campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress on Friday has been dismissed. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Bello Ahmed, said the action was to protect the integrity of the police force. The ... Read More »
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday expressed shock and sadness over the death of the first female chartered accountant in Africa, Chief Olutoyin Olakunrin. Olakunrin slumped and died on Sunday morning at the age of 80. Governor Ambode in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Habib Aruna, described Chief Olakunrin as a trail blazer whose ... Read More »
The decision of the nPDP to back out of the talks was contained in a statement issued by the Chairman of the bloc, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu, Baraje, on Monday The members of the New Peoples Democratic Party bloc in the All Progressives Congress on Monday announced its decision to back out of the talks with the Presidency and the leadership ... Read More »
Late Chief(Mrs) Olutoyin Olakunrin has been described as a remarkable amazon and one of the outstanding Nigerian women in recent history. In his condolence message on the passing of the renowned accountant, distinguished administrator and entrepreneur, the former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel said late Olakunrin was a woman of awesome attributes, quintessential professional and an intellectual of ... Read More »
The police have asked Senate President Bukola Saraki to respond to allegations levelled against him in writing instead of appearing at the force intelligence response team office at Abuja over the robbery that took place in Offa, Kwara state. The police had invited the senate president on Sunday, saying some of the suspects involved in the robbery which led to ... Read More »
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have revealed their new squad numbers ahead of the Russia 2018 World Cup. Nigeria vs England Nigeria team (Back row L-R) Nigeria’s midfielder John Obi Mikel, Nigeria’s defender William Troost-Ekong, Nigeria’s defender Leon Balogun, Nigeria’s midfielder Victor Moses, Nigeria’s midfielder Joel Obi and Nigeria’s goalkeeper Francis Uzoho, (Front row L-R) Nigeria’s striker Odion Ighalo, Nigeria’s ... Read More »
We wish to draw the attention of Nigerians to the involvement of the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu in the plot by the APC to unleash terror on Ekiti and its people as part of the grand plot to forcefully take over the State, having realized that the party cannot regain power through the ballots. Last week Friday, Governor Akeredolu ... Read More »
The people of Offa in Kwara state, the scene of the bloody armed robbery attacks of April 5, this year, yesterday said that they did not agree that the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had anything to do with the incident. This is just as coalition of Kwara youths under the aegis of Kwara Agenda, asked the federal ... Read More »
Prince Tayo Adebiyi, a politician who was at the centre of last Friday shootings has denied the assassination plot leveled against him by the leadership of the party. Addressing newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, the Director General, Prince Tayo Adebiyi Campaign Organisation, Mr. David Ayeni, said his principal brought the policeman in view of the rampancy of kidnapping along ... Read More »
The politician who hired the services of the policeman who fired shots on Friday at the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign rally in Ado Ekiti, Tayo Adebiyi, has denied the allegation that he plotted to assassinate the party’s governorship candidate, Kayode Fayemi. Mr Adebiyi, a House of Representatives’ aspirant on the platform of the APC, is still in the custody ... Read More »
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