A 35-year-old woman, Mrs. Tope Olorunfemi, who was kidnapped last week by suspected herdsmen on Afo/Idoani Road in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State has been freed. Olorunfemi, an employee of Xiamen Wine Stone at Afo, was abducted on her way back home from work on a commercial motorcycle (okada) at gunpoint near Irekari […]

National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried the All Progressives Congress (APC) statement ‘warning’ Atiku Abubakar against making comments on the state of the nation. It, therefore, cautioned against any attempts to indict Atiku over trumped up charges of inciting and inflammatory remarks capable of threatening national peace and cohesion. […]

The minimum wage battle is far from being over, despite the signing of the bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have not agreed on the implementation of the wage structure. Workers on levels 01-06 will automatically enjoy the N30, 000 minimum wage, but the Federal […]

scraps new institutions The Imo State government has converted the Eastern Palm University, Ogboko, established and owned by former Governor Rochas Okorocha, to a campus of the state-owned university. The House of Assembly had passed a law allotting a 90 per cent equity shares to trustees of the Rochas Foundation and 10 per cent to […]

The Alawe of Ilawe Ekiti, Oba Adebanji Ajibade Alabi, Afuntade 1, has been appointed as the new Chairman of Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers. He succeeds the Oloye of Oye Ekiti, Oba Michael Oluwole Ademolaju, who has completed his two-year tenure. The new Ekiti Council of Obas chairman is to spend two years in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari is expecting an official communication from the National Assembly to enable him inaugurate his ministers designate and assign ministries to them, his  Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang,  has said. Many had expected Buhari to inaugurate his cabinet on Wednesday to mark the beginning of the weekly Federal Executive […]

THE Presidency has announced the passing of Alhaji Tijani Yusuf on Wednesday morning after a brief illness. Aged 63, Alhaji Yusuf, popularly called TJ, was until his transition, the Special Assistant (Special Duties) to Jalal Arabi, Permanent Secretary, State House, Abuja. A very likeable and unassuming gentleman, Yusuf was known for his excellent administrative skills, […]

A group, the National Interest Group, on Wednesday, said that security agencies including the Army and Police, were largely responsible for the lapses experienced during the last 2019 general elections. It criticised the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room for faulting the manner in which the Independent National Electoral Commission conducted the 2019 elections. The group, […]