A few days before the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, the elders of the party, also known as Ondo APC Aborigines, have agreed to support the state governor, Mr Lucky Aiywdatiwa, to be the candidate of the party. The elders, who decided at their meeting held in Akure the state…
President Bola Tinubu and other African leaders witnessed the swearing-in of Bassirou Faye as Senegal’s fifth president. Faye was sworn in on Tuesday at an exhibition centre in Diamniadio near Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The inauguration ceremony was attended by many African leaders, including Nana Akufo-Addo, president of Ghana and Sierra Leone’s President, Julius…
Nollywood actress Stephanie Okereke Linus, has been awarded the Lennox K. Black International Prize for Excellence in Medicine at the Thomas Jefferson University in the United States. The prize celebrates excellence in medical innovation and contribution to health and medicine globally. According to a statement, the “achievement highlights her dedication to societal well-being and marks her as…
Nigerian Afrobeat artiste, David Adeleke better known as Davido, has refuted claims of being arrested in Kenya. The singer recently launched a music and arts faculty at the International University of East Africa in Uganda. He also performed at Raha Fest in Nairobi, Kenya. Shortly after, rumours surfaced that the award-winning singer was arrested by…
Unlike what operated in the 1960s and 1970s, theatre practitioners observe that the art has nose-dived in Osun, a state that has produced many icons in the industry, Bola Bamigbola writes. Perhaps, apart from Chief Hubert Ogunde and a few others, what is today known as Osun State unarguably had the highest number of post-colonial…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has fixed the minimum volume of automotive gas oil (AGO), also known as diesel, that can be purchased by oil marketers, at one million litres. Speaking on Tuesday, Abubakar Maigandi, national president, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), said the refinery started selling the product to marketers on March 2….
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Kemi Olunloyo as the Special Adviser to the President on Drug Abuse Education. This was made known by via her official X platform. According to her, she and Mr President will commission the Office of Drug Abuse Education which will work side by side with the NDLEA once she…
Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa has said that he would not pay the 273 lawyers appointed as aides by his Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Olukayode Ajulo. Ajulo had emphasized that the appointment of these lawyers aimed to bolster the provision of top-notch legal services to the State and safeguard the rights of its citizens….
A group, Arewa Think Tank, says the north should be more interested in the infrastructural and educational development of the area rather than work to take power from President Bola Tinubu in 2027. According to the group Nigerians ought to be praying for or their leaders rather than curse them. The group’s Convener, Muhammad Alhaji…
Operatives of the Department of Security Service, Sokoto Command, have arrested a serving Police corporal for allegedly hiding and hospitalising a wanted bandit kingpin identified as Dogo Gide, said a police source. The policeman was picked up for transporting and treating Dogo Gide. According to available information, Dogo Gide was at the head of the…
