UI Student Death: Factory mgt allegedly holds Oyo govt officials hostage
By Adeola Badru The Oyo State Government, weekend, explained that it sealed off the factory where a 300-level University of Ibadan student, Gbedobo Richard, was killed when the factory management held government officials who paid a visit, hostage. The government, then, directed that all workers in the factory, should exit the premises and later locked […]
2023: Why Mamman Daura should not be vilified
In the years 2017, a group of northern leaders felt ashamed by the crop of leaders warming up to take over the mantle of leadership from the current set of leaders that it realised it has to do something about the leadership selection process in the region.
TIKTOK: Bytedance offers to sell US operations, as Trump ban looms
The Chinese company behind TikTok offered the White House a last-minute deal to prevent a US ban of the app, after President Trump announced plans to block it late Friday night. The social network, controlled by a company called ByteDance, is enormously popular in the United States with more than 80 million daily active users. […]
Reps set up 30-man c’mittee to accelerate passage of Petroleum Industry Bill
*May Override President’s Veto on Oil Sector Reforms Bill By Tordue Salem – Abuja The House of Representatives is set to pass the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill into law, in September. A thirty-member Committee, with five members drawn from each of the six geo-political zones of the country, is expected to start work on the […]
Gemade’s defection to APC, charade of a perennial political nomad ― PDP
By Peter Duru – Makurdi The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday described the defection of its former National Chairman, Senator Barnabas Gemade, from the Social Democratic Party, SDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a mere charade by a perennial political nomad. Senator Gemade alongside Mr Terngu Shawon who served as the gubernatorial campaign […]
2023 presidency: Prominent Itsekiri octogenarian Pa Oki slams Balarabe Musa
WARRI: A prominent Niger Delta leader of the Itsekiri extraction Pa Prince Churchill Oki has described recent call by former governor of Kaduna state, Alhaji Ballarabe Musa for the next president of the country to come from the south eastern region as misleading .
