A Lagos Federal High court has released the embattled Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, on bail. The speaker and the Clerk of the House, Adedeji Adeyemo and Director of Finance of the House, Samson Oladayo on Friday were released after meeting the bail conditions. The trio perfected their bail condition on Friday and had since returned to ... Read More »
The Department of State Services (DSS) confirmed on Thursday night that operatives had carried out search on Tukur Mamu’s home and offices in Kaduna with many discoveries. The DSS in a statement by its Spokesman, Dr. Peter Afunanya, said that among the materials found during the search by ‘appropriate security agencies’ were incriminating materials including Military accoutrements. The security agency ... Read More »
K Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday. Her eldest son, Charles, 73, succeeds as king immediately, according to centuries of protocol, beginning a new, less certain chapter for the royal family after the queen’s record-breaking 70-year ... Read More »
The attention of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has been drawn to a letter purportedly written to our Chairman/CEO, Hon. (Dr) Abike Dabiri-Erewa by His Excellency, Hidayet BAYRAKTAR, Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye, on the welfare of Nigerians living in Northern Cyprus. 2. Firstly, no official letter was received till date in our office except the unsigned one ... Read More »
Senator Walid Jibrin on Thursday resigned as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees ( BoT). Jibrin announced his resignation at a meeting of the PDP BoT, at the opposition party’s national secretariat in Abuja. The resignation comes amid agitation for more southern leaders to be reflected in the party’s hierarchy ahead of thr 2023 general elections ... Read More »
Facts have emerged on why the 17 governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party visited the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt on Tuesday night. They claimed that they had visited the governor as part of their contribution to the reconciliatory moves initiated by the party’s leadership to end the internal crisis in the main opposition PDP. Aside ... Read More »
2 The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced Omotayo Bamgbose-Martins as the new Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development. Until his appointment, Bamgbose-Martins was the commissioner for Special Duties. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotosho, made the announcement on Wednesday. Bamgbose-Martins’ redeployment was coming days after the resignation of the former commissioner, Idris Salako. Read More »
Special Adviser on Strategy and Political Matters to Governor ‘Seyi Makinde, Hon. Babatunde Oduyoye, has mourned the death of the president of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), Major-General Abdullahi Muraina (retd). Oduyoye, who described Muraina as a worthy son of Ibadan, noted that his death in Dubai was a huge loss to Oyo State and Nigeria. The former two-term ... Read More »
Oyo State governor, ’Seyi Makinde, on Monday, declared that his administration would continue to work for the development of the state till his last day in office. The governor stated this while being welcomed by political appointees and the top echelon of the civil service at the frontage of the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, adding that his three weeks ... Read More »
A bill for a law establishing the Lagos State Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA) and Forensic centre to support criminal investigations, law enforcement, preservation of evidence for the judicial system and for other connected purposes has been passed by the Lagos State House of Assembly. The bill was passed by the House after it scaled the third reading at plenary on Monday ... Read More »
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