A 44-year-old Pastor Omotilewa Oke, on Monday, secured a divorce at an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, over his wife’s refusal to go for deliverance. Oke said that his wife of six years, Shola, with whom he had two children, behaved in an irrational way. “She fights me every day and also fights with neighbours…
The Supreme Court on Monday fixed July 5 to deliver its judgment on the dispute arising from the September 2018 governorship election in Osun State. The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the said election, Ademola Adeleke, had filed four separate appeals before the apex court to challenge the Abuja Division Court of Appeal’s…
The family of a photographer, Tode Julius, has been thrown into mourning after he was stabbed to death by hoodlums while on his way to buy food in the Ayetoro area of Ebute Meta in the Yaba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the hoodlums, made up of the Sawmill boys…
Youths From Ilaje local government area of Ondo State have commenced protest in front of the Governor’s office in Alagbaka,stopping workers from entering. They have also barricaded the road before the state Secretariat ,thereby disrupting vehicular movements. The youths,under the aegis of Ilaje Youths Congress, carry placards ,demanding for the autonomy of OSOPADEC Details later
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has reportedly rejected a €170m switch to Juventus – but could revisit the situation next summer. According to The Mirror, which runs the story as an exclusive, Juve and Real Madrid were preparing £150m (€170m) bids for Salah. The newspaper assures the Egyptian will stay as ‘the timing is wrong’ for a…
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered that Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta should revert to its status quo ante with full academic activities restored. The governor also set up a committee to look into the operational modalities of Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology, Abeokuta; and Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia. Amosun had introduced a…
About 43 per cent of the candidates who took the April 2019 Final Bar Resit Examinations of the Nigerian Law School failed. The Council of Legal Education which runs the law school said in a statement on Saturday that the 43.10 per cent translated to 720 of the total 1,680 students who took the resit…
Top-ranking lawmakers in Nigeria’s National Assembly said they were expecting President Muhammadu Buhari to submit a list of ministers that will form his federal executive council before or by July 2. The Ahmad Lawan-led 9th Senate would upon resumption from its two weeks recess in July begin a speedy screening and confirmation of persons whose…
The European Union Election Observation Mission has knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and political parties for their actions in the last general elections. EU noted there were shortcomings in INEC’s operations while leading political parties were at fault for not controlling their supporters who unleashed violence on electorates. EU called for more transparency…
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has pledged to come up with a comprehensive plan that would address perennial flooding affecting some parts of the state. Scores of people lost their property to the recent flooding that occurred in some parts of the state including Ijebu-Ode and Abeokuta. The Governor, who was on an inspection tour…