…Ekiti surveyor general buried By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-EKiti The  Bishop of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Ayedun Ekiti Diocese,  Most Reverend Titus Ilori Omoniyi, has appealed to Nigerian leaders to always shun corrupt tendencies and prepare for judgement day by serving humanity selflessly and conscientiously. The man of God warned that God would reward all Nigerian […]

JUST as the remains of Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the immediate-past governor of Oyo State will be interred on Sunday, the gubernatorial candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the 2019 general elections in the state, Engineer Hakeem Oyedele Alao has declared that the people of the state will never forget the former governor in a hurry.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government has suspended the year 2020 hajj operations, with the call to all intending pilgrims to differ the exercise till 2021. According to the state’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Anofiu Elegushi, the cancellation was consequent upon the ban placed on international pilgrims from performing the year 2020 pilgrimage by the […]

The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Abumere Okiye, has applauded Governor Godwin Obaseki on the repositioning of Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS). Okiye made the submission when he led other members of the Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information and Orientation, on a fact-finding visit as part of the Assembly’s oversight […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government on Saturday, discharged 55 more COVID-19 patients, including 16 foreign nationals from its various isolation facilities across the state after tested negative for the virus. The state Governor, who is also the Incident Commander, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu disclosed this while giving an update on the COVID-19 situation report […]

Ireland plans to allow public religious ceremonies again from Monday, in spite of confusion over how many people can attend and over how new rules will apply to places of worship. Starting next week, a maximum of 50 people can meet indoors as part of the latest roll-back of curbs imposed in March to stem […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday warned Nigerians not to mistake the lifting of restrictions on lockdown for the end of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Obasanjo gave the warning at the 2020 Annual Sobo Sowemimo Lecture held at the Abeokuta Club in Abeokuta on Friday. The former president, who was the guest lecturer […]

A cleric, Bishop Steven Akobe, has called on the Federal Government to overhaul its security architecture to adequately address the degenerating security situation and acts of terrorism in Nigeria. Akobe, who is the Bishop of Kabba Anglican Diocese, made the call on Saturday in his charge to the first session of the Ninth Synod of […]

Passengers travelling abroad through Nigeria’s airport terminals are required to arrive five hours before departure to undergo COVID-19 protocols, the Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, has said. The minister said this on Saturday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, when announcing some of the measures introduced for the reopening of the country’s airports […]

In our Online Edition of May 30, 2020, we published a news story captioned “Kidnapped Edo Commissioner found dead” where we erroneously published Dr. Monday Iraoya’s photograph alongside the story. The mixup is regretted. Dr. Iraoya has complained of the false, offensive and defamatory nature of the publication on his person, both as a medical […]