The General Overseer of Agape Baptist Church, Pastor Oprite Amakiri, has been arrested and detained at the Rumuolumeni Police Division in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The 50-year-old randy pastor confessed to how he deceived a member of his church and raped her 18-year-old sister before he was exposed and dragged to the…
The Chairman, Child Survival and Development Organisation of Nigeria, Mrs. Onari Duke, has decried the number of Nigerian women and children dying of cancer. Duke, who spoke at a dinner organised by CS-DON, as part of activities to mark the World Cancer Day in Lagos, urged stakeholders to take collective responsibility towards creating awareness and…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized houses and other properties belonging to the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), and other senior military officers worth N5bn. Our correspondent learnt on Wednesday that the properties, which were seized in the Ikoyi, Ikeja GRA and Badagry areas of Lagos State,…
On Tuesday December 22, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari walked into a joint session of the National Assembly and presented the first annual budget proposal of his administration, ambitiously tagged: “The Budget of Change”. After highlighting the economic challenges that confronted the country due to the fall in oil prices, the president vowed the budget would…
…Lagos, A Centre Of Business, Creativity In West Africa, Says Gauck Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday expressed the desire of his administration to partner with the Federal Republic of Germany in the areas of power, transport, technology and development finance to bring about a quantum leap in establishment and sustenance of businesses…
Leading investor and Chairman, Heirs Holdings, UBA Plc and founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu has applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for the passage of the “Electrify Africa Act,” which took nearly three years trying to get the measure through both chambers of Congress. The Electrify Africa Act creates a framework…
The recent incarceration of PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh didn’t come to many as a big deal reason that before now many has pointed accusing fingers at the man who is in charge of laundering the image of the largest party in Africa over his insatiable appetite for money. Shortly after the campaign news filtered in…
After waiting for some months for the presentation of the 2016 Supplementary Budget by the President, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerians got a sigh of relief when the ex-soldier finally presented the budget to the joint session of the National Assembly. But what many do not know is the fact that there are many discrepancies in the…
There is no doubt that the Lagos State government under Mr Akinwunmi Ambode is trying to make his marks by giving the residents the dividends of democracy through his people oriented programmes that cut across all sectors. However ,despite the kind gestures of the Ambode led government there are some people and parastatal who are…
