Category: News

By John Dike, Osogbo Osun State Government has announced plans to provide an alternative power supply for the state-owned Reality Radio-Vision Services (RTS) in Iwo in order to address persistent electricity challenges affecting the station’s operations. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Chairman of the Board of the Osun State Broadcasting Corporation, […]

By John Dike, Osogbo Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the administration of Ademola Adeleke of failing to protect public infrastructure, alleging that hoodlums are currently vandalising and looting water schemes across several communities in the state. In a statement issued on Wednesday by the party’s Director of Media and […]

By John Dike, Osogbo The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Osun State Council, has called on citizens to prioritise good character, moral discipline and peaceful coexistence as essential virtues for building a better society. The charge was given during a Ramadan lecture organised by the union at the NUJ Secretariat in Osogbo, the Osun State […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Akure on Thursday barred Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa from contesting reelection into the same office. The court said that if reelected, Aiyedatiwa would spend more than eight years in office as Governor in violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Presided over by Justice Toyin […]

A foreign policy expert and international diplomat, Ambassador Olutoyin Oloniteru, has urged Nigeria to take decisive action against neighbouring countries allegedly providing safe havens for terrorists operating within its borders. A statement by the spokesman of Elizade University, Ilara Mokin, Mr Williams Olufunmi, said that the foreign policy expert spoke at the institution:s 2026 Diplomatic […]

KThe Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has called on leaders and stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party to embrace reconciliation and move beyond lingering litigations following the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal of Nigeria concerning the party’s national convention. Akpoti-Uduaghan made the call in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by […]

Mojtaba Khamenei. Photo: AFP Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is injured but “safe and sound”, the son of the president said Wednesday, offering the first official explanation for why the 56-year-old has not been seen since his appointment at the weekend. “I heard news that Mr Mojtaba Khamenei […]

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, Italian PM Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned on Wednesday a deadly missile strike on a school in Iran early in the Middle East war, calling for those responsible to be identified. “On behalf of the government, I express my firm condemnation of the massacre of girls at the school in […]

India and other yet-to-be disclosed countries have declined to accept some of President Bola Tinubu’s recently posted ambassadors-designate due to diplomatic policies that discourage receiving envoys from administrations with less than two years remaining in office, High-ranking officials in the Presidency and the foreign service disclosed on Tuesday that India, where career diplomat Ambassador Muhammad […]

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery accounted for about 92 per cent of Nigeria’s daily petrol supply in February, as the Federal Government has paused the importation of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol). This came as filling stations on Tuesday retained petrol prices at above N1200 per litre despite a N100 reduction in the gantry price by the […]