The Oluwo of Iwo, Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has been accused of causing disunity among a ruling house in the town by imposing candidate as the head of the family. The monarch was alleged to continue with this move despite the ruling Adegunodo ruling house having an existing head. The ruling house…
Two men have been arrested with suspected human bones in Delta State. Police said they were suspected ritualists pretending to be mentally unstable. Police Commissioner Hafiz Inuwa told reporters in Asaba, the state capital, on Monday that his men acting on a tip-off arrested the suspects at their hideout under the DSC Expressway, Igbogidi in…
This is sad! A senior lecturer of the federal polytechnic Kaduna has lost his life while helping his girlfriend. Mr. Sunday Odeagbo, from Benue state, died on Saturday, 16th May 2020. According to reports, He was called for help by his girlfriend who owns a beer palour at a popular market called ‘kasuwa Ndole’ in…
Akwa Ibom State Government has rejected ten vehicles donated by ExxonMobil to aid contact tracing of suspected COVID-19 patients in the state. The government had appreciated the company for the gesture made on Friday but in a statement issued on Sunday by its Information Commissioner, Charles Udoh, it described the vehicles as too old and…
President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation in a broadcast on Monday following the end of the first phase of the gradual easing of the COVID-19 lockdown. Aliyu Sani, the national coordinator of the presidential task force on COVID-19, made this disclosure when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. According to him, the president…
Fifteen more COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the Lagos State isolation centers after testing negative for the virus twice. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced this on Sunday, saying those discharged comprised nine females and six males. He noted that with the 15 recently discharged COVID-19 patients, a total of 623 patients have recovered…
Lagos State Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana has disclosed that the Police Command has arrested 1,872 people in the last two weeks in the state. He disclosed in a statement on Sunday, that the suspects were apprehended for violating the COVID-19 lockdown order. Elkana said they were charged to mobile court by the command’s…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said lecturers in seven federal universities have not received their February and March 2020 salaries, despite a directive by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to clear the withheld salaries. The ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, stated this in an interview with our correspondent. He noted that…
No Need To Probe My Husband’s Death – Helen Prest A former beauty queen, Helen Prest-Ajayi, says there is no need to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband and Managing Director of First Foundation Medical Centre, Lagos, Dr Tosin Ajayi. Helen told PUNCH Metro her position through her lawyer, Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN), on Saturday….
A Fifty-five-year old Ghanaian man, Osmanu Mumuni, has been arrested by the police in Ghana for physically abusing his 10-year-old son over claims he stole his money at his home in Obuom-Domeabra. The mother of the child had on May 17, visited the police station to report that the day before, her ex-husband Osman Mumuni whom their son…