A Sunday auto crash at Itako, Ijebu-Ife in Ogun State, claimed the lives of a woman and her two daughters. A truck and a Ford SUV were involved in the accident. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesman of Ogun State’s Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta. He said the accident occurred […]
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Bisi Akande’s autobiography By Sam Omatseye It is a series of words as pinprick. It began as a book presentation, and the bigwigs of the Nigerian political firmament gathered, especially of the APC hue. The president, Muhammadu Buhari, in his full light-blue babaringa and loosed-limbed with humour, was accompanied by a raft of governors. That […]
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A cleric, Tunde Olayiwola, who was arrested last week allegedly with a fresh human head by detectives of the Ondo state police command, has died in police custody. State Police command spokeswoman, Funmilayo Odunlami, confirmed the death of the suspect in police custody adding that he became indisposed while in detention. She did not give […]
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Anthony’s mother, Pauline Eromosele Like the ‘Aluu four,’ where four undergraduates were set ablaze by angry villagers, a 16-year-old was wrongly accused, brutalised and had iron inserted into his anal part before being burnt to death by irate youths in a village in Cross River State. With his assailants at large, and the police, as […]
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Babajide Akeredolu Amid growing criticism of the appointment by Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of his son, Babajide, as the Director General of Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit ( PPIMU), the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked him to declare his assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau. The governor […]
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Former envoy to Cote D’Ivoire during late President Shehu Shagari’s administration, Mr Denis Ukume, has disclosed that late Biafra warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu accepted Shagari’s condition to be stripped of his military status for him to be granted amnesty. The 83-year old claimed Ojukwu agreed to Shagari’s condition to be referred to simply as “Mr” […]
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Describes death of 1984 Nobel Prize winner personal loss Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has described Desmond Tutu as almost a one-man riot using both religion and Holy Bible against apartheid, and a thorn in the flesh of the white-ruled South Africa’s Nationalist Party. “His insights, understanding, and pieces of advice and suggestions on the way […]
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Commiserates with Ramaphosa, South Africans The death of the iconic anti-apartheid activist, Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, who died on Saturday, has created a void in a world in dire need of wisdom, integrity, courage and sound reasoning, which were qualities that the firebrand cleric typified and exemplified in words and actions. Reacting to the passage […]
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerian men not to abuse performance enhancing substances not registered by the agency. He stressed that consumption of such substances could lead to stroke or sudden death. Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this in her Christmas and New Year goodwill […]
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Drugs intercepted by the NDLEA The National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 8,381,600 capsules and tablets of tramadol as well as 56,782 bottles of codeine among others in major raids in Lagos. This is contained in a statement by the Director Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi […]
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