To safeguard the health of residents of the state and ensure they enjoy qualitative health care services, the Ondo State Government has closed down eight health facilities for various offences. It also warned seven facilities for alleged non compliance to rules of practice and engaging in unprofessional conducts. While reading the riot act to violators […]
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Osun State House of Assembly has confirmed the appointments of 35 Commissioners and Special Advisers who would serve in the cabinet of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. The Majority Leader, Hon Moroof Olanrewaju who moved motion for their confirmation said all the nominees have been found to be worthy of the appointments. The motion was seconded by […]
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About 40 passengers escaped being burnt on Thursday when a luxurious bus conveying them reportedly went up in flames along the Enugu-Onitsha expressway in Anambra State. The bus belonging to one of the transport companies in the South East was said to be on its way to Lagos from Enugu when the incident occurred. It […]
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The Senate has justified the N125 billion proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the National Assembly budget for the 2020 fiscal year. “The National Assembly has a lot of staff to take care of in both chambers. The number of committees is large too because of the volume of work. So, there is no way […]
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Ekiti State Government has urged the state House of Assembly to rework the Gender-Based Violence Law (GBV) to carry more stringent capital punishment such as medical castration of rapists and defilers. This, according to it, would be an addition to life jail-term prescribed in the law. The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Wale […]
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Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has said the N1 trillion recovered by various government agencies was all used to finance the 2017 and 2018 national budgets. Its chairman, Prof. Itse Sagay, made the disclosure while fielding questions from newsmen on what he described as “unprecedented” strides by the panel after he led the members […]
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Lagos State House of Assembly has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and four others who served as commissioners in his administration. This decision followed two preliminary reports presented by two different ad-hoc committees set up by the House to investigate the 820 buses purchased by Ambode and to […]
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A 41-year-old widower, Ojowi Johnson, has been arraigned at an Akure High Court on two count charge of rape and procuring illegal abortion for his 14-year old daughter. Johnson, an auto mechanic, allegedly raped his daughter several times for two years, and procured an illegal abortion for her after impregnating her. The prosecution led by […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the review of the National Broadcasting Code and extant broadcasting laws to reflect stiffer penalties for violators of broadcasting regulations. He has also endorsed the implementation of reforms to end all forms of monopoly detrimental to the actualisation of the immense potential of the broadcast industry. Minister of Information and […]
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By Malcolm Little Black If I be a Christian And you a Muslim She a Hindu And he a Buddhist… No matter the tribe, clime or region Without love how good is the religion? If I be a Pagan And you a Heathen She a Pantheist And he an Atheist… Devoid of kindness, devoid of […]
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