Isiyaka Yusuf Onimisi, who live-twitted the March 30th attempted jailbreak at the State Security Service headquarter with the twitter handle @ciaxon, has been released after 12 days in captivity, his uncle, Mahmud Yakub, has said. Yakub, who spoke to Daily Trust, through phone, said he was released last night, but couldn’t say who released him. The news of release of ... Read More »
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Assemby caucus from Ogun State has described the party’s local congresses holding nationwide today as exercise in futility in the state. The lawmakers, in a statement signed on their behalf by Senator Adegbenga Kaka, representing Ogun East Senatorial District, kicked against what they described as further breaches of the party’s guidelines for the congresses ... Read More »
Osun State PDP gubernatorial candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore has condemned the education policy of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola following the 2013 WASSCE results released by WAEC where Osun State placed 23rd position. Speaking through his Director of Media and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, Senator Omisore said: ” The grandstanding of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola that his education policy is the best in ... Read More »
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the Peoples Democratic Party as more democratic than other political parties in Nigeria. Apparently referring to the opposition All Progressives Congress, Jonathan said the PDP was more democratic because it would not cancel ward congresses across the states without considering the wish of its members. The President spoke at the South-East PDP rally held ... Read More »
i. CHILD THEFT: On 25.08.2013 at about 8:00PM a Mother (name withheld), resident of MASAKA TOWN, NASARAWA STATE reported to the Police that at about 8:00AM of same day she handed her one-month old baby boy (name withheld) to an unknown woman to help in briefly attending to the baby while a service was on going at Living Faith Church, ... Read More »
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, on Thursday said the task of uprooting governor Rauf Aregbesola and the All Progressives Congress from Osun State would be a difficult task. He, however, expressed confidence that the party’s candidate, Iyiola Omisore, had what it takes to get the job done. Mu’azu said this while presenting the certificate of ... Read More »
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday told a Lagos High Court that an accused person being prosecuted for separate fraud charges, including an alleged N979.6m fuel subsidy fraud, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, had fled to Canada. The EFCC counsel, Mr. Emmanuel Jackson, said this before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo while opposing an application by the accused seeking an order of stay ... Read More »
The American Consul General in Nigeria, Jeffrey Hawkins, Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko and President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, are some of the participants expected at the Oyo State Economic Summit which hold on April 14 and 15, 2014 in Ibadan. In a release issued by the State Commissioner of Trade and Industries, Princes Oyefunke Oworu, these ... Read More »
A Nigerian man who tweeted pictures of an attempted jail break at the country’s intelligence agency headquarters has been arrested and held incommunicado for 11 days, his family said Thursday. The head of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, told AFP that his office was investigating the alleged disappearance of 32-year-old Yusuf Siyaka Onimisi. Reports suggested Boko Haram militants ... Read More »
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