Some yet-to-be-identified people set ablaze a church building belonging to Living Faith Church Inc, aka Winners Chapel, along Airport Road, Ilorin about 2.30am on Wednesday. Church property worth several millions of naira were also said to have been destroyed by the fire. It was gathered that the plastic chairs in the church were removed to […]
DECEMBER 13, 2012 BY SIMON UTEBOR 156 COMMENTS Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido | credits: File copy Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Nigeria Customs Service on Wednesday at Mallam Aminu Kano Airport arrested Aminu, the eldest son of Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, over alleged money laundering. Sources […]
DECEMBER 12, 2012 BY FRIDAY OLOKOR, ABUJA 10 COMMENTS The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday said it had concluded arrangements to declare Kogi State ex-governor, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, wanted over alleged N4bn fraud. A statement by the spokesperson for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said the decision followed alleged evasion of arrest of […]
Titilayo, wife of a Miltary Governor of the old Western Region, Brig-Gen Oluwole Rotimi (retd.), has been kidnapped by gunmen in Ibadan. It was learnt that Mrs. Oluwole was kidnapped around 6.30pm on Monday in front of her company, AOK Logistics Limited. Mrs. Oluwole, whose husband was also a former Ambassdor to the United States […]
Men of the Nigerian Police Force, the Army, Directorate of State Service, DSS, Customs and other security agencies have Monday taken over the premises of the traditional ruler of Ogwashi-Uku, Obi Chukwuka Okonjo and laid siege to other parts of the town after the kidnap of Prof. Kamene Okonjo, 82, mother of the Minister of […]
Alamieyeseigha, my political benefactor – Jonathan DECEMBER 11, 2012 BY MIKE ODIEGWU, YENAGOA 2 COMMENTS President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday described the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, as his political benefactor. The President also called on the political class in the state to put aside their grievances […]
A man suspected to be an okada rider was on Saturday evening electrocuted to death in Ejigbo, Lagos State. The deceased, identified as Oche Samuel, was said to have met his death at the shop of a motorcycle mechanic in the area. It was learnt that the deceased had taken his bike for repairs before […]
The police in Ekiti State have arrested a couple, Mr. Dada Ojo and his wife, Adejoke, for allegedly dumping their newborn baby inside a bush. Our correspondent learnt on Sunday that the woman and her husband were arrested on Friday. A source in the community said the cry of the baby in the bush attracted […]
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola said post-civil war generation of Nigerians has moved beyond the sad episode and has resolved to ensure that the union of various ethnic groups in the country live in harmony. The governor said this in his speech at the 2012 Achebe Colloquium on Africa in Rhode Island, United States of […]
Oyo State Police Command has arrested Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, a factional leader of the state’s National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW). His arrest was made public in Ibadan yesterday in a release issued by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in the state, Clement Adoda. Adoda said Akinsola, popularly known as ‘Tokyo,’ was undergoing […]
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