The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi has stated that Yoruba ancestral home is beyond Ile-Ife. He made the through his media aide, Alli Ibraheem, in Osogbo on Monday. He also urged historians working on the study of the Yoruba ancestral home to be objective in their research and documentation. Oba Akanbi opined…
The family of the late Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, 41, a Nigerian citizen who died aboard Egypt Air on September 4, 2023, in Cairo on her way to London for studies, has announced her burial plans with the repatriation of the body back to Lagos on Wednesday. This was disclosed in a statement signed by…
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has stated that the federal government will no longer give new road contracts to contractors currently working on more than four projects. The minister, during a meeting with contractors handling federal roads across the six geo-political zones in the country, in Abuja, said this was to enable…
The police in Ogun state have arrested a pastor with the Christ Liberty Evangelism Church, Rosco, Iyana Iyesi, Ota, Oyenekan Oluwaseyi, and three others for being in possession of a human skull. Punch reports that Oluwaseyi and the three others identified as 30-year-old Ibrahim Agbowewe, 40-year-old Suleiman Ogunbunmi, and 57-year-old Gafari Akinsanya, were arrested…
Pro-democracy group, Stand Up Nigeria has condemned alleged plans by President Bola Tinubu’s administration to appoint Gen. Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd.) as the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The group in a statement signed by its Coordinator Sunday Attah on Sunday said such a plan if true, does not…
A resident of Riverview Road in Ottawa, South Africa was murdered by a tenant on Sunday, October 15. According to reports, a neighbour contacted reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) at approximately 14:36 after she heard of the murder. Police revealed that the property owner demanded outstanding payment for rental when a verbal altercation ensued….
The remains of 86 year-old Hajiya Halima Ibrahim, mother of the immediate past Senate President, Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan, have been laid to rest on Sunday in Gashu’a, Bade Local Government Area of Yobe State. The funeral prayer of the deceased, which attracted dozens of dignitaries from within and outside the state, was attended by…
Police authorities in Zamfara State have confirmed the rescue of two students and a staff of the Federal University Gusau. This was made known in a statement by the police. The statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Yazid Abubakar indicated that the rescued persons were abducted on the 14th of September…
Israel’s actions in Gaza have gone “beyond the scope of self-defense” and the Israeli government must “cease its collective punishment of the people of Gaza”, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in remarks published Sunday. Wang’s remarks, made on a call to his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Saturday, came as…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have arrested two wanted heads of transnational criminal organisations with multi-billion-naira worth of illicit drugs and assets seized from them after weeks of intelligence-led operations across the country and outside Nigeria. NDLEA said the arrest of the wanted drug lords came on the heels…