THE Matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty and Yeye Oodua of Yorubaland, Chief (Mrs) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, will tomorrow mark her 96th birthday at her home in Ikenne. The holy communion service will be held at the Awolowos’ residence in Ikenne Remo, Ogun State, at 7.30a.m. Affectionately referred to as the “Jewel of Inestimable Value” […]
AS the people of Kogi State prepare for the forthcoming governorship election, the issue of alleged stocking of arms and ammunition has become a subject in the state, as the leading political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) take centre stage. However the Wada/Awoniyi campaign organisation has debunked allegations that […]
ABOUT 725 ghost workers have been discovered to exist in the 20 local government areas of Bauchi State. Revealing this while submitting its report to the state Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Faggo, the chairman of the task force set up by the ministry to verify workers of the local government councils in […]
Aftermath of the bank robbery in Akure, Ondo State, many banks in the town, on Wednesday, did not open for business for fear of another attack by the robbers. Some of the banks located on Oba Adesida and Oyemekun road locked their gates, while their workers were also locked inside their premises. However, some other banks that […]
TWENTY-THREE persons reportedly died in three auto accidents that occurred on Tuesday across Edo and Katsina states. Nine persons were confirmed dead in separate road accidents that occurred in Jattu in Estako West Local Government Area and Aduwawa in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. According to reports, while six persons, made up […]
The chairman of the Oyo State Task Force on Flood Prevention and Management, Dr Bolanle Wahab, has disclosed that a total of 2,105 buildings were washed away by the flood disaster which ravaged the city of Ibadan on August 26, 2011. He also said that a total sum of N4.31 billion would be required by […]
THE Kano State police command has arrested one Shu’abiu Jibrin (80), for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl, just as the command also paraded a 65-year-old man, Ado Shehu, for allegedly raping another four-year-old girl. This is just as the command also nabbed a dismissed police corporal for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl. Disclosing this on Wednesday […]
A self-acclaimed man of God, Pastor Chukwudi Ibe, of Divine Power Ministry in Onitsha, is currently cooling his feet in a police cell over gross abuse of his ward. The pastor, with a hot electric iron, had inflicted severe burns on the 11-year-old boy, identified as Friday, who he accused of stealing N200 and keeping bad […]
Residents of Oremeji at Aradagun near Badagry, Lagos State, were, on Sunday, thrown into shock when a man presumed dead suddenly woke up after three days in the mortuary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the man, simply identified as Mr Agosu, died of an undisclosed illness on Friday in a hospital and his […]
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Wednesday in Zaria, Kaduna State, warned that Nigeria had started drifting. Abubakar expressed fears about the fate of the Nigerian nation and stressed that the country appeared to have lost direction. The Sultan, who is also the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic […]
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