A businessman and brotherin- lawtoformerPresident Olusegun Obasanjo, John Abebe, yesterday before an Ikeja Special Offences Court denied forging parts of an oil contract. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that an oil company, Statoil Nigeria Limited, had on June 22, 2010, accused the brother of the late former First Lady, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, of […]
Police have arrested eight suspected traffic robbers at Ketu area of the Lagos metropolis. The suspects are Olawuyi Olayinka (27), Mayowa Adegoke (17), Faizu Ado (25), Segun Oluwatoyin (27) and Haruna Shuaibu (24). Others are Amos Abayomi (24), Monday Obayemi (25) and Okunola Olawale (21). They were arrested at different locations in Ketu. It […]
Scores of passengers yesterday escaped death in Lagos when a train collided with a truck loaded with animal feeds. The accident occurred at Jonathan Coker Railway Level Crossing, Fagba, Iju-Ishaga, Lagos State. The accident occurred about 6:30am, when the driver of the truck tried to cross the rail before the train could reach […]
An Oyo State High Court has convicted the former Deputy Chief Registrar, Mutiat Omobola Adio, for issuing a dud cheque of N1.5 million to an auto dealer. The judge, Justice Lekan Owalabi, on Friday, sentenced Adio, a former deputy chief registrar of Oyo State judiciary, to three years’ imprisonment, having pleaded guilty through plea bargain. […]
A Emmanuel Uti A 43-year-old woman, Adebisi Medinat, is urgently in need of N1.9 million to undergo a bilateral top hips replacement surgery. Doctors’ report confirmed she would lose her both legs permanently if she does not undergo a surgery in three weeks’ time. Medinat, now in a wheelchair, was first diagnosed with bilateral […]
Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of Standard Bank Group, has awarded scholarships to successful candidates in the 2019 and 2020 University Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). This was done as part of its aspiration to encourage hardwork and excellence in academic pursuit. The 87 beneficiaries were drawn from the 36 states of the federation […]
Security chiefs, yesterday, reassured Nigerians of government’s commitment to ending insecurity across the country. National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) made the commitment on their behalf in Kaduna at a town hall meeting of security chiefs, state governors and major stakeholders on the protracted insecurity in the North-West of the country. Monguno said […]
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has said external forces are behind the alleged crisis in the party. Secondus, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, yesterday, accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of sponsoring crisis in PDP. “There is no crisis in the PDP. It is all plots […]
The proxy war between Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq and Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, over the control of the All Progressives Congress (APC) structures in Kwara State, finally blew open yesterday. The minister revealed that in Shao, Kwara North Senatorial District, the APC registration materials were taken to a police station […]
LCC: Why we must commence operation now Disturbed by the allegations of right abuses and harassment of protesters who were arrested by the police at the Lekki toll plaza on Saturday, Governor Babajide Sanwo- Olu has ordered a full scale investigation into the allegations to ensure officers responsible for the act are dealt with […]