An unidentified helicopter on Wednesday, around 3.40 pm, plunged into the ocean beneath Third Mainland bridge, behind Oworonshoki Police Station, Lagos. Eye witness accounts said that the helicopter made a loud noise before nose-diving into the ocean, adding that the Police and officials of the National Emergency Management Agency ( NEMA), South West zone, have begun rescue efforts. Details later Courtesy – ... Read More »
Few weeks after raising the alarm over alleged premeditated attacks by a combined team of security agencies, including NDLEA police and Soldiers, on innocent bystanders at Ariaria International Market in Aba, Abia State and repeated Calls by several quarters for investigation to ascertain the perpetrators of the heinous Crime. A civil society Group under the Ageis of Abia Human Rights ... Read More »
Political activist and National Publicity Secretary of the Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin Human has submitted a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, detailing allegations of financial recklessness and corruption against Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola. Odumakin, who is an indigene of Osun State, submitted the petition on behalf of a group, Osun Stakeholders, on ... Read More »
…..We Only Coordinate Affairs of Hajj Operations-Abdul Hakeem Lagos State Government on Tuesday denied sponsorship of pilgrims for the 2015 hajj as being speculated in some news media, even as the Amirul Hajj restated the state’s readiness to conduct a hitch free hajj. Reacting to publications in some dailies that some pilgrimage forms allocated to key officials of the ... Read More »
NARCOTIC drugs weighing 455.215kg, with a street value of N2.8 billion, as well as $2.5 million, have been confiscated at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) between January and June this year. Also, 75 suspected drug traffickers and money launderers, comprising 62 males and 13 females, were arrested in ... Read More »
Kola Popson As the preparation for the 80th birthday celebration of Chief Kessinghton Adebutu thickens, the owner of Premier Lotto Nigeria Limited is set to speed up the construction and completion of his mansion at Bourdillon in Ikoyi axis of Lagos State to make the celebration a multiple one. It would be recalled that last week, Naijahottestgist reported that the ... Read More »
A former governor of Yobe State who is currently representing Yobe-East Senatorial District at the Senate, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, on Saturday said the Boko Haram insurgent group was formed in Egypt decades ago contrary to the belief that it started in Nigeria around 2009. Ibrahim told journalists in Abuja that the ideological movement, which is strictly anti-Western education, had ... Read More »
Kola Popson The month of October 2015 will be a fabulous and merriment moment for the popular business tycoon, Chief Kessinghton Adebukola Adebutu, his family members, fans and well-wishers as he plans a grand style 80th birthday celebration which will be coupled with the conferment of a chieftaincy title on him. According to the information available to www.hottestgistinnaija.com, the 80th ... Read More »
The immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, (retd), has given a hint that some arms and ammunition procured by the Jonathan administration had not arrived the country. The former NSA said that some elements whose identities he did not disclose were frustrating the nation’s efforts to get the critically needed equipment to fight the Boko Haram insurgency. According ... Read More »
The Enugu State Government has approved six months maternity leave for nursing mothers and three weeks paternity leave for “nursing fathers” in its civil service.The state government announced this following the amendment of its Civil Service rules.According to the state government, the paternity leave was meant to give husbands the opportunity to support their nursing wives. Female workers who gave ... Read More »
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