Author: Olabanji Ayoola

A coalition of Christians in the north, under the auspices of Arewa Christians and Indigenous Pastors Association, on Monday warned the Federal Government to desist from any secret plot to establish Ruga settlements for Fulani herders across the country.  The National Chairman of ACIPA, Rev Luke Shehu, in a statement in Abuja warned that any […]

• INEC ad hoc workers say server was used The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, presented their first set of six witnesses at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in their bid to prove their petition challenging outcome of the polls. They […]

A member of the National Youth Service Corps scheme serving in Osun State, Ayomikun Ademorayo, on Sunday died after she reportedly washed her hair with an insecticide, Sniper, to eliminate lice. Some colleagues of the deceased told our correspondent that Ayomikun, an orphan, discovered lice in her hair while preparing for a new hairdo in […]

Lagos State Government on Monday said it had confiscated a truckload of poisonous cowhide (ponmo) at Ijegun, a suburb of Lagos, in the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Dr Olayiwole Onasanya, who described the cowhide as  Ebola ponmo said the item was imported into the country by some ‘unscrupulous individuals’. […]

Chief Bisi Akande (left); Babagana Kingibe; Lagos State Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat; Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje; wife of the governor of Ogun State, Victoria; Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun; Senate President Ahmed Lawan; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Oba of Lagos, Oba Riliwanu Akiolu; former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, his wife, Fatima; wife […]