Month: January 2021
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Ogun NANS Elects New Officials
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Ogun State chapter has elected a new executive committee that will pilot the affairs of the association for the next year. At the election held inside the Alake Sports Complex, Abeokuta, at the weekend, Simeon Damilola emerged as the new state chairman of the association. Damilola, a student…
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‘I knew he was ill and I put him forward’, Obasanjo Speaks on late Yar’Adua’s health
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed he knew the late President Musa Yar’Adua was ill before he supported him to emerge the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007. He however said he got medical advice that Yar’Adua, who had a kidney transplant, was fit to act as President. Yar’Adua, who later…
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COVID-19: UAE Imposes New Travel Protocols On Nigerian Travellers
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has imposed new travel protocols on Nigerian travelers in the wake of the second wave of COVID-19. With the new protocols which are currently unsettling stakeholders especially travel agents, only direct flights originating from Nigeria are now permitted to fly directly into UAE. This means that transit flights with Nigerians…
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LASU Students Reject Partial Reduction of Tuition Fees, Make Demand
The students’ Union Government of the Lagos State University, LASU, has demanded for total reversal of the tuition fees following partial reduction of the fee as approved by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The students, in a statement on Saturday night by the Public Relations Officer of the Student Union Government, Adams Zaenab Olawumi, said what the…
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#LekkiShooting: Medical Doctor Testifies Before Lagos Panel, Speaks on Victims With Gunshots Wounds
A medical doctor at Reddington hospital, Babajide Lawson, has said that six persons with varying gunshot wounds were treated at the Victoria Island branch of the hospital. He said the hospital was overwhelmed with ”mass casualty” from the Lekki shooting of October 20,2020. The doctor confirmed that gunshot victims from Lekki tollgate were brought to…
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Fulani Herdsmen Reportedly Attacked Two Persons in Oyo Community, Igangan
SOME Fulani herders have allegedly attacked two persons with machete at Igangan in Ibarapa North Local Government area of Oyo State. According to information gathered from Mr Taiwo Adeagbo, a resident, the herders allegedly attacked the two persons in their village around 1am on Saturday. As a result of this, the youths have been on…
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Uniosun 200-level Student Narrates How He Connived With Fulani Herdsman To Kidnap, Kill His 2 Nephews
A 200-level Student of the Osun State University, Uniosun, Usman Muyideen, has narrated how he kidnapped and killed two underage children with the help of a Fulani herdsman identified as Memudu. Muyideen, 21, who was paraded alongside Memudu by the Osun State Police Command on Friday, said the victims were children of his elder brother.…
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OPINION: Selling Cape Verde for dollars, using Alex Saab as a bargaining chip
By Uthman Samad Years ago, when vinyl LP records were the only way to properly listen to music and the Walkman and iPods were mere twinkles in the eyes of Akio Morita and Steve Jobs respectively, I bought the fifth Genesis album entitled “Selling England by the Pound”. The album took its name from a…
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Lagos Judicial Panel Reacts To Army Refusal To Honor Summon
Chairperson of the Lagos state judicial panel, Doris Okuwobi, Saturday said there is nothing the panel can do if the Nigerian army refuses to honour summons. The army is a respondent in several petitions before the panel set up by the Lagos state government to probe police brutality, especially the involvement of the army in…
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Do you know that new CDS is OAU alumnus? Facts you need to know about newly appointed Service Chiefs
Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff – How Borno indigene foretold his elevation in 2016. In 2016, Ibrahim Uba Yusuf, an indigene of Borno was so impressed with new Chief of Defence Staff Lucky Irabor that he declared him his man of the year in a local publication in Maiduguri. Before then, the entire Sambisa…