The remains of the late Highlife maestro, Sir Victor Abimbola Olaiya, were laid to rest yesterday at the Vaults & Garden Cemetery, Ikoyi, Lagos. The funeral was attended by select family members and very few friends of the late music legend. He was laid in state briefly at a hall to enable guests pay their […]
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A new board has been appointed by the six owner South West states for Oodua Investment Limited. The Chairman of the Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, disclosed this in a statement issued in Akure by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Donald Ojogo. He said the newly inaugurated board was […]
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Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED) Teaching Hospital Ondo, on Friday staged a peaceful protest over non-payment of five months salaries The doctors threatened to embark on indefinite strike action if their salaries are not paid within one week. They said some arrears in 2019 were yet to be […]
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Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has said that the Supreme Court’s judgment, which quashed the conviction and 12-year imprisonment of former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor-Kalu, will affect more cases. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel led by Justice Amina Augie, voided Kalu’s December 2019 trial for stealing […]
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A governorship aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo state, and daughter of former Governor Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Mrs Jumoke Anifowose, has distanced herself from a reported agreement that some aspirants in the Unity Forum have agreed to cede the governorship to Ondo North senatorial district. The Unity Forum […]
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Senator Orji Kalu, who was freed on Friday by the Supreme Court from a 12 year imprisonment, has said that he has learnt invaluable lessons about Nigeria, her peoples and justice system. The Chief Whip of the Senate and former Abia State Governor, was freed after spending five months of his sentence at the Kuje […]
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court has quashed the judgement that convicted and sentenced the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor-Kalu to 12 years imprisonment. In a unanimous judgement on Friday by a seven-man panel, led by Justice Amina Augie, the Supreme Court held that the Federal High Court in Lagos, which tried and convicted Kalu, his […]
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Lagos State government on Thursday discharged 48 coronavirus patients from its isolation centres after treatment, to raise the number of those successfully managed to 406. Those discharged include 32 male and 16 female – all of them Nigerians. They were treated at the Yaba, Lekki, Onikan and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation facilities to […]
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A truck full of herdsmen was stopped before arriving in Lagos at the Ojodu-Berger in Lagos, on May 4, 2020, from Zamfara and Kano State, the epicentre of coronavirus in northern Nigeria. Kano, with around 12 million people, is the second most populous state in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on May 1, […]
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The judge who annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Nigeria’s freest and fairest poll ever conducted in the history of the country, Dahiru Saleh, has died. This was confirmed to The Cable by a family source, who said he was buried at the palace of the emir of Azare around 4:30pm on Thursday. Until […]
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