| credits: There was pandemonium at the venue of the Election Petitions Tribunal in Benin on Thursday as a man collapsed during the tribunal’s proceedings. The incident happened as a witness for Maj.-Gen. Charles Airhiavbere (retd.), a governorship candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, was being cross-examined. The man whose identity could not be […]
Chief Meni Jonathan | credits: thestreetjournal.org Ogun State Government Ibikunle Amosun, his Kaduna State counterpart, Patrick Yakowa, and the Congress for Progressive Change have expressed their condolences to President Goodluck Jonathan on the death of his younger brother, Meni. Meni, 45, died at the National Hospital, Abuja on Tuesday. Amosun, in a statement by […]
THE authorities of the University of Abuja, on Tuesday, closed down the university indefinitely, over students’ rampage that prevented the conduct of the second semester examinations. The exams were billed to commence on 19th of November, but could not hold because of the two-day protest that led to the shutdown of the institution by the […]
A group of notorious gunmen in Barakin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State on Monday night waylaid Fulani herdsmen at Bisichi village and opened fire on them, killing 12 cows while 12 of them were also hit by the assailants’ bullets. According to a statement issued by the Special Task Force (STF) in charge […]
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has disputed the claim by President Goodluck Jonathan in his Sunday’s presidential chat that the military operation in Odi, Bayelsa State in 1999 failed to stop the killings of security agents in the Niger Delta. Fani-Kayode said in a statement on Monday that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who ordered […]
-Punch Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola THE declaration of November 15 a public holiday to mark the commencement of the Islamic year in Osun State has set off major alarm bells that cannot be ignored. The Governor of the State, Rauf Aregbesola, rather took his dalliance with religion a step further when he claimed that […]
Five men were on Sunday night arrested at the Sagamu area of Ogun State in connection with the assassination of a former chairman of Ikeja Local Government, Lagos State, Mr. Toyin Hamzat. Hamzat was also a former special adviser on health to Governor Babatunde Fashola. It was learnt that he had just dropped a female […]
-Punch • L-R: Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; his wife, Oluremi; Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo; his wife, Olori Adetokunbo; Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun; his wife, Olufunso; and Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, during the thanksgiving service to mark the 7th Coronation Anniversary of Oba Gbadebo in Abeokuta […]
Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday, explained the introduction of Chinese language as a subject in schools while thumbing-up, with statistics, the all-inclusive security policy being implemented in the state. He spoke at a gathering on the Lagos Television premises in Ikeja, in commemoration of his 2,000 days in office. He also told his audience, which included former […]
From CHRIS ANUCHA & TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt – Tears flowed freely yesterday as remains of Lloyd Toku Mike, one of the four University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT)students, who was brutally murdered in Omuokiri community, Aluu clan, Rivers State, on October 5, 2012, were buried in Port Harcourt City cemetery, opposite Free-Town Street, off Aggrey […]
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