Category: News
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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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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…
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Minister Disburses N160 Million To 8,000 Rural Women in Lagos
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Faruk, disbursed, at the weekend, N160million to 8, 000 rural women of Lagos State. The Lagos edition is part of the Nationwide Grant for Rural Women Project. Grant for Rural Women Project was introduced in 2020 to sustain the social inclusion agenda of President…
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Ibadan Poly Lecturer, Tetfund Officials die in Car Accident
A lecturer at the Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo State, Architect Kola Oladunjoye has died in a motor accident along the Moniya-Iseyin road.Oladunjoye, who is the immediate past Head of the Department of Architecture in the institution died on Thursday along with three others whose identities have not been made public yet. It was gathered that Oladunjoye…
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Updated: Lagos Govt. Reduces LASU Tuition Fee
Lagos State government on Friday announced a reduction in the tuition fee for Lagos State University, LASU. Special Adviser to the Governor on Education disclosed this on Friday via Twitter. The tweet read “Flash: Lagos State government reduces tuition fee for students of Lagos”. The tweet reads, “Flash: Lagos State government reduces tuition fee for…
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Police Defend Dismissal of Pregnant Constable, Site Similar Cases
The Ekiti State Police Command has defended the dismissal of a Police Constable, Miss Olajide Omolola, who got pregnant in alleged flagrant violation of the Police Rules and Regulations. Omolola, who was attached to the Iye Ekiti Police Station in Ilejemeje area of Ekiti State, was dismissed last week by the police authority for getting…