Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disowned a former governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola.Chairman of the party, Mr. Tajudeen Lawal disclosed this in a communiqué after a stakeholders’ meeting at the state secretariat in Osogbo on Tuesday. According to the chairman, the former minister of interior had committed various anti-party…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the naming of the full-scope Arterial road N20 from Northern Parkway to the Outer Northern Expressway (otherwise called the Murtala Mohammed Expressway) as the Wole Soyinka Way. The President stated this during his address at the inauguration of the road in Abuja on Tuesday, where he described the 89-year-old playwright…
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has urged Nigerians experiencing hard times to call on God for help. Adeboye stated this at RCCG headquarters in Ebute-Metta on Sunday during the June thanksgiving service with the theme, ‘Lifter Up of My Head’.He said, “If you need provision, if…
Three young Federal lawmakers have rejected the official Sports Utility Vehicle, SUV, given to the lawmakers by the Federal Government and demanded for the money to build factories in their communities. Last year, November 2023, there was an uproar when the Federal Government approved for all members of the Federal House of Representatives brand new…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo recently shared a story about the kindness he received from a traditional ruler, Lamido, while he was in prison. He explained that during his time in Adamawa, late Lamido treated him like his own child. In a video recently shared on YouTube, Obasanjo said while he was in prison, Lamido gave…
Gospel singer Yinka Ayefele has clarified that he fathered his triplets contrary to what many people think. He explained that though it was rare for people with spinal cord injury to impregnate a woman, but he happens to be one of the few exceptions. He made the clarification during the ‘Curiosity Made Me Ask’ show…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the “labour union has shut down” the national grid, resulting in a blackout nationwide. The national grid shut down occured at about 2.19 am on 3rd June 2024. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) kicked off their indefinite nationwide strike today,…
A New York jury has found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — the first time a former U.S. President has been convicted of a crime, NBC News reports. The verdict was read in the Manhattan courtroom, where Trump had been on trial since April 15. He had pleaded…
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, is probing a former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwakwanso, over alleged N2.5bn pension fraud. It was gathered that Kwakwanso was invited and had been grilled by EFCC interrogators over the development. A source in the anti-graft agency familiar with the matter but had no authourisation to speak, said,…
The Organised Labour has said it may begin a nationwide strike from Monday, June 3, over a new minimum wage. This is as the tripartite committee on a new national minimum wage, NNMW, reconvenes today. Organised labour sources said that a nationwide strike might start on Monday, depending on the outcome of today’s meeting. According…
