Following the death of Timothy Adegoke, a master’s degree student of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, the police have arrested Dr Ramon Adedoyin, the founder of Oduduwa University and the Polytechnic, Ile-Ife. Adedoyin is also the Chairman of Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife. It will be recalled that the deceased, Timothy Adegoke came from Abuja to…
Influential personalities were in Kano on Wednesday for the burial of the younger brother of Africa’s richest man, Sani Dangote, who died in US on Sunday. He was laid to rest at a cemetery located at No.92 Sarari quarters in Kano, on Wednesday morning. His body arrived in Nigeria from USA on Wednesday morning. The…
Some commercial motorcycle riders also known as Okada riders, went on a rampage in Akure the Ondo State Capital on Wednesday, protesting the killing of one of their colleague by a mobile policeman. It was gathered that a mobile policeman guarding a petrol station at Arakala area of Akure, reportedly killed an okada rider who…
Operatives of the Niger State Police Command have arrested a fake soldier, Emmanuel Dominic, 24, of Tungan area of Minna. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun in a statement on Wednesday, November 17, said the suspect was arrested by operatives attached to Maitumbi Division. The PPRO said the suspect dressed in Nigerian Army camouflage,…
Five people have been killed in a petrol tanker explosion that occurred along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the early hours of Wednesday, November 17. In a statement released, the state sector command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Ogun command, Ahmed Umar, said the accident happened at 4:46 am near Tunji Alegi filling station, Kwakyama…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has been asked to apologise to the American media house, Cable News Network. Nigerian counsel for the Cable News Network, Olumide Babalola asked Mohammed to tender an apology to the medium for tagging as fake an investigative report by CNN. The lawyer, in a statement on Tuesday,…
Naira remained stable against the dollar at the official market on Monday. On the FMDQ securities exchange windows where forex is officially traded showed naira closed at N415.10 to a dollar at the close of business Monday, the same rate it exchanged Friday last week. Naira maintained an intraday high of N404.00 and a low…
Temitope Majekodunmi, the Youth representative in the Lagos State Panel, which submitted its report on the killings of #EndSARS protesters in Lekki, has urged the Nigerian youths to demand justice for their slain compatriots. He also commended survivors of the assault that happened in Lekki on Tuesday, 20th October, 2020, for coming out to testify…
A 24-year-old serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)has been declared missing by the Ebonyi State Police Command. The corps member identified as Omale Victor hails from Adekafane Ugwolawo in Ofu local government area of Kogi State. The Industrial Chemistry graduate was serving with the Ebonyi State Agency for Mass Literacy located along…
GIOTV reports that Reno expressed himself following the reports by the Panel of Investigation set up by the Lagos State Government to unravel the Lekki Toll Gate incident. The panel disclosed that police and officers of the Nigerian Army intentionally killed and maimed armless youths protesting the extrajudicial killings by the Nigerian police. Major General…