Security operatives rescue Osun APC appeal committee members amid gunshots

Banji Ayoola Pandemonium broke out on Saturday at the Osun secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) as sounds of gunshots tore through the tense atmosphere at the sitting of the Ward Congress Appeal Committee in Osogbo. The gunshots which ran out about 4.15pm, forced the heavily armed security operatives to rescue some members of […]

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Aggrieved Osun APC members storm party secretariat over ward congress

Banji Ayoola The crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State degenerated on Saturday as aggrieved members of the party stormed the party’s state secretariat in Osogbo to submit petitions against the ward congress to the Appeal Committee which started its meeting same day. They came in hundreds and besieged the party’s […]

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Buhari approves Baba-Yusuf as acting FCT Chief Judge

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf as the acting Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council. This was disclosed in a press statement issued by the Director of Information, Soji Oye, on Saturday; which said that the “The […]

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Tinubu says Buhari’s London visit shows he’s caring, humble leader

Lagos State former governor and the ruling All Progressives Congress National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu has described the visit on Thursday to him in London by President Muhammadu Buhari as a demonstration of his care and humility as Nigerian leader. While expressing his deep appreciation, he thanked the President for the visit, according to a […]

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Relief as IPOB suspends sit-at-home order

Residents of South Eastern states on Saturday heaved a sigh of relief as the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) has suspended the weekly sit-at-home exercise it commenced this week in the region. Suspension of the exercise which has resulted in some deaths and caused enormous financial losses to many businessmen operating in the region was announced […]

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Life and times of Gani Fawehinmi’s heir, Mohammed

Confined to a wheelchair for 18 years following a tragic accident, Mohammed Fawehinmi passed on last Wednesday aged 52. Adebisi Onanuga and Robert Egbe chronicle the life and times of the heir to the Gani Fawehinmi legal dynasty. Nobody messed with famed human rights activist and legal luminary Chief Gani Fawehinmi; not even his first […]

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