About two months after the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, aggrieved Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday met behind closed doors in Abuja. Although the details of the meeting were still sketchy as of the time of this report, sources in the PDP…
A former Inspector-General of Police, Mustapha Balogun, died at a hospital in Lekki, Lagos at about 8:30 pm on Thursday during a brief illness, according to family sources. Born August 25, 1947, in Ila Orangun, Osun State, he was appointed the IGP in March 2002. Balogun died at 74, few days to his 75th birthday….
Rotary club of Ikeja recently honoured some of its members who have clocked 70 years and above and have also spent 30 years and above in the club at an event that took place recently during its meeting at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja. Some of the elders who were honoured are, Past Assistant Governors,…
The Akwa Ibom State High Court on Thursday sentenced Uduak Akpan to death for murdering a job-seeker, Iniobong Umoren. The 21-year-old Akpan had in May 2021 raped and killed Twitter job-seeker Iniobong Umoren and buried the body in a shallow grave in his father’s compound. Umoren, based in Uyo, was job-hunting when she met her…
The Bank’s Firstmonie Agents play a critical role in promoting financial inclusion in the country The Bank currently has over 180,000 Firstmonie Agents spread across 772 Local Government Areas in Nigeria Since 2020, FirstBank has economically empowered thousands of its Firstmonie Agents with over 100 billion naira credit facility. First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s…
The Chairman of Lagos State Labour Party (LP), Comrade Kayode Ezekiel Salako has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, the Inspector General of Police and other relevant security agencies to call Lagos State APC to order over incessant harassment of Labour Party in the state. Salako made this call on Tuesday at a press conference to…
Muyiwa Oki, the candidate billed as representing architectural workers and the profession’s grassroots, has been elected as the next president of the RIBA The architect at construction consultancy Mace Group saw off Sumita Singha, who also stood for the post two years ago, and Allies and Morrison’s Jo Bacon in the race to succeed Simon…
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, defended the disbursement of N1.15bn for the purchase of 10 SUVs for the Republic of Niger, saying that the move is to enable the country to safeguard its territory in the best interest of Nigeria’s security. Fielding questions from State House Correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by…
Highly placed individuals have pooh-pooed the allegation that the Chief of Staff to the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Tayo Ayinde, was involved in a N500 million land grabbing scandal. It will be recalled that some people went to the media recently, alleging that Chief Ayinde was involved in gross impersonation and assault over a…
The Italian authorities have arrested a suspect involved in the murder of a Nigerian man in Italy, Ogochukwu Alika. Alika, a physically challenged man, was beaten to death with his crutches by the unnamed attacker while people watched and recorded the incident with their phones. Giving an update on the case in a statement on…
