Daughter of former Lagos State Governor and the state’s market leader, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, has said she never demanded the All Progressives Congress membership card from traders as a prerequisite to reopening the Abibatu Mogaji Model Market in Lagos. A statement by her media consultant, Gboyega Akosile, on Thursday added that no money was demanded from the traders before the market ... Read More »
THE authoritiesof the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, yesterday said a 31-year- old officer of the agency, Emmanuel Ilori, who defiled his colleague’s nine-year-old daughter (names withheld) has been dismissed. Its Head of Operations in Ondo State, Sunday Ajayi, said the action of the officer was an embarrassment that should not be treated with levity. According to Ondo police image ... Read More »
A yet-to-be-identified man in his 30s fell from a moving train at Oshodi, Lagos early Wednesday morning, and died in the process. Eye witnesses who spoke with News Bytes said the man who sat alongside scores of other commuters on the roof of the train was attempting to alight at Oshodi but slipped. The man was believed to be on ... Read More »
WITHDRAWAL OF NIGERIAN RUGBY SEVENS FROM COMMONWEALTH GAMES BY NOC, A MAJOR SETBACK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME IN NIGERIA It was with great and undeniable shock and dismay I received report of the withdrawal of the Nigerian Rugby Sevens from the Commonwealth game coming up this summer in Glasgow, Scotland by the Nigerian Olympic Committee (NOC) with no ... Read More »
The life of a 17-year-old student of Bowen University, Opeyemi Odusanya, has been cut short by some cult members in Lagos. It was gathered that the undergraduate was murdered for allegedly rejecting sexual advances from some youths in the area and also for “being too proud.” WE learnt that the victim was a 300 level student of Biochemistry at the ... Read More »
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, February 13, 2014 arraigned one Ngozi Ibeka before Justice Valentine Ashi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Wuse, Abuja on a 14-count charge bordering on fraud and breach of trust. Ibeka, Managing Director of Em-Lette Nigeria Limited is alleged to have received several supplies of rice from Stallion Nigeria Limited ... Read More »
#TravelAfrica: Book It! How Online Travel Portals Are Helping to Re-Brand Africa & Grow Tourism Venue:#SMWexperience Hub @ Four Points Oniru Chieftaincy Estate Plot 9/10, Block 2 Lekki,Lagos Time: 10:30AM-11:30AM Twitter Conversation Hashtag: #SmwTravelAfrica TravelAfrica Day will look at the impact social and digital media has on the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in Africa. We are now a new ... Read More »
A Chief Magistrate’s court, sitting at Isabo in Abeokuta, Ogun State, yesterday, remanded three suspected homosexuals, including a 64‑year‑old Oluwasegun Adesina‑Rasheed, Samad Ojo, 20 and Ope Abeeb, 18 in Ibara prison. The suspects were allegedly caught in the act on February 14, St. Valentine’s day at about 11:30 p.m. at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ogun State ... Read More »
Former Super Eagles Captain, Joseph Yobo, may have unknowingly incurred the wrath of some of his wife’s people. Yobo’s wife Adaeze, is from Iru-Owelle Village in Awka Etiti, Idemili South Local government area of Anambra State. According to one of them who asked not to be mentioned yet, their anger with the soccer star stems from the fact that he’s ... Read More »
he precarious state of the country’s security was yet again underscored when, last Sunday, February 9, one of our country’s sports icons, ex-international football star, my friend ‘the Mathematical’ Segun Odegbami, was shot at by suspected armed robbers on the Abeokuta-Lagos dual carriageway. That he escaped the barrage of shots from close range is a ‘miracle’. It was a deadly ... Read More »
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