Year: 2021
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Osun Commercial Sex Worker Vomits Blood After Encounter With ‘Ritualist’ Customer
A young woman believed to be a commercial sex worker at the weekend reportedly vomited blood uncontrollably after being hit on the head with charms by ritualist who promised to pay her a substantial amount of money, after having marathon sex with three of them at a hotel in Osogbo, Osun State capital. According to…
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FG Launches e-learning Platform
Federal Government has launched an e-learning platforms that would herald the digitization of all teaching and learning materials being used at basic and secondary school levels. Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who launched the two e-learning platforms, Inspire and Ignite, said the platforms are easy to use and also friendly to the user. He…
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Meet OAU Graduate Who Spent 12 Years For 4 Years Course, Now Business ‘Mogul’
Omobolanle Adenle is one of the graduands at the 45th Convocation ceremony of the Obafemi Awolowo University held earlier this month. She gained admission to study Linguistics and African Languages in 2010, but instead of graduating in the 2014/2015 session, she graduated in 2021. While narrating her ordeal to Sodiq Oyeleke of the PUNCH ,…
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Okorocha Son-in-law Not Kidnapped, Police
The Nation The 2019 governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Chief Uche Nwosu, was arrested, the police said on Sunday. Imo State Police Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Michael Abattam, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), said Nwosu was in custody. He said the politician was not abducted by gunmen as feared. The PPRO…
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Amotekun Corps Rescue Nine Abductees in Osun
Operatives of the Amotekun Corps on Saturday rescued nine persons who were abducted by unknown gunmen along Ipetumodu-Ilesa expressway in Osun State. The abducted victims were rescued by the joint patrol team of the corps in Ondo and Osun states. Chairman of the Council of Amotekun Commanders in the South-West region who doubles as the…
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12 Things To Know About South African Nobel Laureate, Desmond Tutu (+Famous Qoutes)
South Africa President, Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday, announced the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The celebrated Nobel Laureate died at 90. This is five years after the South African anti-apartheid icon celebrated his 85th birthday in October 2016, saying he would like to be allowed the option of dignified assisted death. “I have prepared for…
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I Was Locked Up in Cell With Suspected Boko Haram Terrorists, Alleged Igboho’s Native Doctor Recounts Ordeals in DSS Custody
A traditionalist, Dada Ifasooto has recounted his experience while in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS for six months. Recall that he was recently pronounced innocent and released on December 24, 2021 after DSS wrongfully accused him of preparing charms for embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho. In this…
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Renowned South African Nobel Laureate, Desmond Tutu is Dead
Renowned Nobel Peace Prize laureate and anti-apartheid veteran, Desmond Mpilo Tutu, is dead. The South Africa’s Archbishop, died at the age of 90. “The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa,” President…
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Xmas: Ooni Keeps Mum Over Separation Report, Felicitates With Christians, Nigerians
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, on Saturday kept mum over the separation report between him and his estranged wife, Prophetess Naomi Silekunola, the monarch instead, felicitated with the Christians on the occasion of Christmas which is being celebrated by some adherents of Jesus Christ to mark his birthday. The 47-year-old monarch…
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Buhari’s Spokesman, Other Presidential Aides Test Positive For COVID-19
The Nation Indications emerged at the weekend that COVID-19 has crept into the Nigerian Presidential Villa, Abuja, allegedly afflicting some Presidential aides and State House officials. A number of close aides of President Muhammadu Buhari were diagnosed with COVID-19 infection and reportedly asked to self-isolate while taking treatment. Among those diagnosed with the infection after…