Super Eagles’ captain, Ahmed Musa, was the surprise visitor to the camp of Nigeria’s U-17 team, Golden Eaglets at ParkView Hotel in Abuja on Wednesday. Nigeria’s most capped international admonished the players to endeavour to maintain the rich culture of Nigeria football and also make a name for themselves and their families, adding that he…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Osun State Command has arrested nine suspects for illegally tampering with electricity meters. Personnel of the Command and officials of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) arrested the suspects on Tuesday night, March 28, 2023, at Owode along Ilesa road during a joint task force operation. They…
The Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate in Lagos State, Fredrick Nwajagu, has been arrested. Speaking in a video that went viral on Friday, Nwajagu threatened to invite members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra to secure the properties of Igbo people in the state. He said, “IPOB, we will invite them. They have no…
The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure says the party will refund N25 million nomination fee paid by a deceased governorship aspirant of the party in Imo State, Humphrey Anumudu to his family. Abure spoke in Abuja on Tuesday after meeting with National Assembly-Elect members of the party. He also said no…
Barrister Tope Alabi, a Lagos-based lawyer, has approached the Federal High Court in Lagos State to initiate proceedings against the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Godwin Emefiele for allegedly disobeying the Supreme Court orders on its naira redesign policy. The lawyer made the application via a March 27 ex parte motion in the…
The Ogun state police command has issued a 72-hour ultimatum to Portable, the controversial singer, to report himself. The ‘Zazoo Zeh’ crooner was in the public eye on Tuesday after a video of him lamenting that “Yahoo boy sent the police to arrest me”. The 29-year-old also referred to himself as “a federal government liability”.…
Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and ex-Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger on Wednesday became the first managers to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame. The two men locked horns during a period of intense rivalry starting in the 1990s, winning 16 English top-flight titles between them. Ferguson, 81, is the most successful…
The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, says his victory at the February 25 presidential election is the greatest gift he could receive as he celebrates his 71st birthday. “With such a privilege already granted to me, I will not go so far as to suggest I am due any birthday presents this year,” Tinubu said in a…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has felicitated with President-elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the ocassion of his 71st birthday anniversary, praying God to grant him more wisdom and strength in the years to come. In a statement personally signed by the Vice President on Wednesday, he stated that today’s occasion “is unique, as it occurs…
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has told the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, that he is welcome into the state and can visit him at the Government House anytime. He said despite party differences, he would ensure Osun remains home for every progressive, particularly Argebesola, who was a former governor of the state.…
