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The Chief Imam of Iwoland, Sheik Abdulfatai Olododo, is dead. It was gathered that he died yesterday at his residence in Iwo. However, the Iwo Local Government Caretaker Chairman, Hon. Moshood Kabiru IRORUN has expressed his deep sympathy to the Muslim Ummah in Iwo over the…
Akarigbo has urged cultists within Remo, Ogun State to emulate 48 people who renounced cultism, surrendered arms, ammunitions in Sagamu. Yesterday, March 26, 2024, his royal majesty, Oba Dr Babatunde Adewale Ajayi, Torungbuwa II, LLB, LLM, FCA, FBR, CFR, the Akarigbo and…
Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, on Tuesday, warned against what he termed as deliberate efforts by some individuals to drag his name in the mud, saying that his silence should not be taken for cowardice. Iba Gani Adams, gave the warning while…
….. It will foster a sense of unity and camaraderie within the school community. Preparations are now in top gear for Kingsley Spring College, Shagari Boluwaji, Ibadan first ever Inter-House Sports Competition tagged Spring Athletics '24. The event which will be held on…
The Federal Government has declared Friday, March 29 and Monday, April 1, 2024 as public holidays to mark the 2024 Good Friday and Easter Monday celebrations, respectively. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Minister of Interior, made the declaration on behalf of the federal government in a…
Nollywood Actress and filmmaker, Eniola Ajao, has said that the Best Dressed Female Award given to cross-dresser, Bobrisky, was a joke. In an interview with Arise TV host, Kachi, Ajao apologised to Nigeians, stating that the award was to drive publicity for her movie,…
Governor Ademola Adeleke has vowed to revive the abandoned upgrading project for the nine technical colleges in Osun state, requesting the consultant to mobilise to the state for the completion of the project. The Governor made this declaration on Tuesday while on a courtesy…
The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps (aka So-Safe Corps) has arrested five suspects for alleged armed robbery and burglary. The arrests, in two different operations, comprised a one-man armed robbery suspect, whose previous records of operations were…
President Bola Tinubu has condemned the reprehensible acts perpetrated by kidnappers across the country, declaring that individuals involved in such despicable crimes must be treated as terrorists. The President made the declaration on Tuesday at a Ramadan dinner with members…
Residents of Oke-Baale area of Osogbo, the Osun State capital have bee gripped with fear, following the murder of a middle-aged woman. The woman, said to have been homeless for some months, was beheaded by suspected ritualists on Monday night, March 25, 2024. Her headless…
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Lawal Pedro (SAN), has expressed readiness for the establishment of state police, asserting that the state is fully prepared and only awaits the signal to commence the creation process. Mr Pedro made this…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have launched massive raids across Lagos, Edo and Ondo state leading to the seizure of over 44,948.1 kilograms (44.9 tonnes) of illicit drugs and arrests of eight suspects as well as the seizure of 11 vehicles…
The Lagos State chapter of the Labour Party, LP, has asked the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, to resign to sustain the party’s integrity. Rasheed Bamishe, the LP chairman in Lagos State, made the call at the party’s secretariat in Lagos on Saturday. He urged…
The Lagos State Police Command has foiled a staged kidnapping and arrested four people involved in the scheme. The command's Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. The statement partly read, "Detectives of the Lagos States Police…
Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed what he spends the better part of his weekdays doing. Speaking when he paid a courtesy visit to Abia state governor, Alex Otti on Friday, the elder stateman disclosed that he plays squash on Mondays, Wednesdays…
Operatives of the Ogun Police Command on Thursday reportedly engaged suspected kidnappers in a gun duel and killed five of them. The kidnappers numbering eight were said to have been responsible for the kidnapping of Tunde Osifowokan, the farm manager of Flourishing Poultry…
Chaos engulfed Abeokuta, the Ogun state Capital on Monday following a violent clash between two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers at Kuto, Lafenwa, Obantoko, Ita-Osin Odeda, and other motor parks across Ogun Central Senatorial District. The conflict…
No fewer than ten people have lost their lives to the ghastly motor vehicle accident that recently occurred on Tuesday night in Oyo State. It was learnt that the motor accident conveying passengers from Iseyin to Ogbomosho suddenly summersaulted and ten people reportedly died…
