Category: News
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Early Morning Fire Guts Sunday Igboho’s House (Photos)
House of Popular Yoruba Activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday was razed in the early hours of Tuesday. However, no life was lost in the fire, which reportedly started around 3 am. Channels Television could not ascertain the cause of the fire, as at the time of publishing this report. Confirming the incident…
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Video: Oyo Seriki’s Son Narrates How Mother Was Attacked, Reveals Steps Taken
Abbas Dalibi, Son of the Seriki Fulani in Igangan, ibarapa LGA, Oyo state has came out to share his gory experience on how some youth attacked her mum on Friday following quit notice issued by Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho over the spate of killings and Kidnappings in the community. Dalibi in a…
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UI May Admit More Undergraduates, Acting VC Hints
Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, UI, Prof. Adebola Babatunde Ekanola has hinted that the premier Varsity may admit more undergraduate students than it is currently doing with the establishment of more private hostels on campus. Prof. Ekanola who spoke at the foundations laying ceremony of a private Hostel located at Ajibode, called…
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Court Orders Remand of 50-year-old Man For Allegedly Raping, Aborting Pregnancy For Teenager
A Dutse Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, ordered the remand of a 55-year-old man, Ibrahim Jallo, in a correctional centre for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl and preventing her baby from being born alive. The defendant, a resident of Buma Ruwa village in Gwiwa Local Government area, is facing a two-count charge, bordering on rape…
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COVID-19: FG Threatens To Shut Down NYSC Camp
The Federal Government says it will close any National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp where the state government does not comply with all the COVID-19 protocols. The Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Sunday Dare, who made the disclosure at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 national briefing on Monday in Abuja said that…
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NDLEA To Conduct Drug Test On Tertiary Institutions Students, Others
The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Marwa (retd.), has ordered the state commanders of the agency to mop up illicit drugs across the country. He also hinted that the agency would seek the government’s approval to conduct drug tests on students of tertiary institutions, security personnel and newly appointed…
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20-year-old Physically Disabled Woman Locked Up For Five Years in Osun Rescued
The Osun State Government has rescued a 20-year-old woman locked up in an abandoned house by her parents for five years and fed once in a while. The girl identified as Opeyemi Olatoke was locked up in the abandoned family house located at Alfa Fire area, Oke-Iba-Obaagun road, in Ikirun, Ifelodun local government area of…
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FG Executes 43 Roads In Tertiary Institutions
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has stated that his ministry was currently executing 43 road projects within tertiary institutions across the country with a view to enhancing the learning environment. Mrs Boade Akinola, the Director of Press and Public Relations in the ministry, in a statement to newsmen, on Sunday, quoted…
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AAUA Accident: NANS Berates Govt, Dangote, Makes 5 Demands
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, South West Zone, has berated government at all levels, and Dangote group of company over the fatal accident which was caused by one of the latter’s articulated trucks and claimed lives of many students, and other victims on Saturday. The students’ body poured out its displeasure over the…
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Mother of 3 AAUA Students Who Lost Their Lives In Fatal Accident Slumps, Dies After Hearing Children’s Death
The mother of three siblings, all undergraduates of the Adekunle Ajasin University, who are among those crushed to death by a truck in Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, on Saturday, died immediately after she learned of her children’s death. Two of them were final year students of the university. An articulated truck loaded with cement lost…