By Dapo Akinrefon Head of the Yoruba Nation self-determination struggle, Professor Banji Akintoye, on Sunday, attributed the retrogression in Yoruba to curses placed by the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in Yoruba Land. He noting that some of the victims of the slave trade cursed the future generation of Yoruba people over the unholy collaboration between the […]

By Ugochukwu Alaribe Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Abia State, Mr. Paul Ugwu, has denied shielding an officer who allegedly killed a driver at a checkpoint at Umuikaa junction along the Enugu – Port Harcourt expressway, in Isiala Ngwa South council area. A yet-to-be-identified official of the FRSC had on […]

Nasty Bigsmoke talks street experience in new song ‘ Hustle

By Biodun Busari Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has disclosed that his older brother, Mathias Pogba connived with some people in a “group-organised extortion attempt” against him. The Juventus player released a statement through his legal representative on Sunday after Mathias used his social media platforms to reveal what he termed “great revelations.” According to AFP, […]

A 28-year-old National Youth Service member, NYSC, Samaila Awudu, was reportedly killed by gunmen that invaded their Yolde Pate corpers’ lodge in Yola South Local Government Area, Adamawa State, weekend.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed an application the Federal Government filed for permission to extradite the detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, to the United States of America, USA, to face trial over his alleged involvement with a notorious internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known […]

By Etop Ekanem LAGOS—Ahead of the new school session commencing  September 5, the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board’s (LASUBEB) EKOEXCEL has asked parents and guardians to enrol their children in public primary schools for maximum learning gains. EKOEXCEL is an educational intervention launched in 2019 by Governor BabajideSanwo-Olu to transform Lagos public primary schools […]

By Kingsley Omonobi Following the kidnapping of the wife and two children of serving lawmaker Hon Ibrahim Aminu, in Katsina State by bandits, the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Commanded by DCP Tunji Disu has arrested three (3) informants to a syndicate who specialize in kidnapping victims for ransom. Making this known in a statement, […]

By Steve Oko Hundreds of hapless patients who had converged from different parts of Osisioma Local Government Area of Abia State, were Sunday, frustrated when a team of medics coming to attend to them were prevented by a group of armed youths suspected to be thugs from accessing the venue of the exercise. The ongoing […]

By Joseph Erunke The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has again, rolled over its ongoing strike. The action of the nation’s public university lecturers’ union, came after its National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja. READ ALSO: The meeting which began late Sunday at the University of Abuja’s headquarters of ASUU, ended early […]

South-South Elders Progressive Forum, SSEPF, has accused the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, of a ploy to mislead President Muhammadu Buhari in the constitution of a substantive Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The forum, whose membership comprises elders cutting across the Niger Delta states, alleged […]

Professorial chair for Yusuf Grillo

Suspected cultists, yesterday, in Lagos ambushed a member of Musiliu Akinsanya, MC Oluomo’s led Parks Management Committee, in Owode area of Mile 12, Lagos, and hacked him to death.

When Modupe Ogunlesi sat for 5 masters in life drawings

Five artists’ conversation in colour @ Alexis Galleries