Students of D.S. Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Itori in Ogun State have blocked the Lagos-Abeokuta road over the alleged abduction of two of them by some suspected gunmen. It was gathered that gunmen had attacked a student’s hostel around 1 am at Afowowa, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun. The students said they were angry, alleging…
The murder case against 5-year-old Hanifa Abubakar has been adjourned to February 9, 2022, by the Kano State Magistrates’ Court. The prosecution counsel, led by Barr. Aisha Mahmud, said that the court lacked the jurisdiction to continue with the case and therefore requested the court to remand the four suspects in prison custody for a…
Lagos Council Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo) has been declared eminently qualified to be a monarch in Oshodi. The Secretary of Kupoluyi Royal Family aka Almaroof, Prince Abdulwasiu Almaroof, made the declaration according to a report by TheNation. This is contrary to the statement…
The federal government printed and distributed 1,350,000 passport booklets in 2021, the Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has confirmed. The minister spoke at a Lagos Business School, LBS, Forum themed, “Nigeria in Challenging Times: The Contributions of the Ministry of Interior and Opportunities for Private Sector Participation,” The virtual event was part of LBS…
Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, Yoruba’s foremost traditional ruler, has ordered a restriction of movement in Ile-Ife, Osun State, from 11pm to 5am over incessant criminal activities. The development was reported to have forced the traditional council members and some local security to keep vigil in some areas through the night, last Friday. The…
A 30-year-old man identified only as Femi in Moniya, from Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital is said to be on the run after he allegedly killed a woman on her farm in the community on Monday, February 1. Femi and the deceased had some unresolved issues before the family met…
A chairmanship candidate in the last Kaduna state local government election, Steven Inuwa, was on Sunday January 30, shot dead in Abuja. Inuwa who contested under the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), was in a car with his friend, Earnest Agatha, when yet to be identified gunmen fired shots towards them around Zuma…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the burning of his 2,420 hectares of farmland at Hawe in Aliade, Gwer East Local Government of Benue State over the weekend. In a statement made available to journalists in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo described burning of his mango…
Abdulrahman Abdu Usman, the 24-year-old son of Kano State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Dr Zahrau Muhammad Umar has been reported missing. Abdulrahman has been missing for about 15 days and it has not yet been established if it is a case of abduction. This has caused panic among his family members. The Kano commissioner’s son…
Nigerians can now apply for US dropbox visa service or interview waiver for those renewing visas in the country. The United States embassy in Nigeria announced the lifting of the restriction which was suspended for Nigerian applicants in May 2019. Following the lifting of the suspension, applicants must now be applying to renew a visa…