Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped four Chinese railway workers working on the Lagos-Ibadan railway. During the attack carried out on Wednesday June 16 around Kila, a village between Ogun and Oyo states, a police officer who guarding the expatriates was killed. It was gathered that the gunmen who were dressed in black kaftan when they stormed the…
The Kwara State Government has suspended two senior officials from the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Result (SOML-PforR) to allow for probe into allegations of financial irregularities and inconsistencies in the handling of funds. The Press Secretary, Kwara State Ministry of Health, Falade Gbenga Tayo, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, June 16.…
A 26-year-old barber who resides at Iyana Governor Road in Idi- Iroko community of Ogun State, has been arrested and charged with impersonation, stealing, obtaining by false pretences and threat to life after reportedly defrauding a London-based woman of N51m. Moses Olaitan was arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday June 17, over…
The Naira has crashed to a four-year low in the parallel market after the Central Bank’s efforts to coax banks to sell more Dollars to customers failed to bridge the widening gap between the official and street rates. Unauthorized dealers were offering the naira at 502 per dollar on Wednesday, June 16, from 500 last…
Yusuf Tanko Sununu, lawmaker representing Ngaski/Shanga/Yauri Federal Constituency of Kebbi State at the House of Representatives has confirmed the abductions of students and teachers of Government Girls’ College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State. Sununu who noted that the number of students and teachers abducted is yet to be confirmed while addressing newsmen at the national assembly, appealed…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has fired back at the Presidency, following claim of Governors elected on the platform of the opposition party being angry with the ban on the operation of Twitter in the country because it has curtailed its use in peddling fake news. In a statement released by PDP’s spokesperson Kola Ologbondiyan,…
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and liberation hero is dead at the age of 97. His son, Kambarage said he died at a military hospital in Lusaka where he was being treated for pneumonia. Kaunda ruled Zambia for 27 years, starting from 1964 after the country gained independence from Britain. He left his…
A diamond believed to be the third largest ever found has been put on display in Botswana. The precious stone weighing 1,098 carats was shown to Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, two weeks after, Debswana, a diamind unearthing firm, found it. Botswana is Africa’s largest producer of diamonds. The gem is only slightly less heavy…
