Inside prisons crime rings: How inmates run operations from behind bars
Last month, a text message landed on Odion Akagbosu’s phone late at night. It was short, cold and terrifying. “Someone wants you dead. He sent us to kill you, but I don’t want to kill an innocent soul. Comply with me or I will not show mercy.”
Adeleke, Oyetola quarrel afresh on handover procedure
By Shina Abubakar OSOGBO — Former governor of Osun State, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, yesterday, accused his successor, Governor Ademola Adeleke of declining to meet with the hand-over team of his administration. Adeleke had set up a transition committee to interface with the Oyetola-led administration, but the committee headed by Dr. Muyiwa Oladimeji alleged that the […]
Aisha Buhari: Court remands student over ‘poor people’s money’ remark
Aminu Muhammad, a student of Federal University Dutse (FUD), has been remanded in prison over his tweet on Aisha Buhari. Muhammad, who hails from Azare in Bauchi state, is a final-year student at the department of environmental management. Read also: We’ve lost 2000 ballots boxes, 399 voting cubicles, 24 gens – INEC Recall that the […]
State govs responsible for rising poverty in Nigeria – FG
The Federal Government said state governors were responsible for the rising rate of poverty in the country. The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, made this assertion at a press briefing in the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, shortly after this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by the President […]
Lecturers get full November salary, demand Oct arrears
By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-DESPITE the widespread protests that have trailed the payment of half salaries to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the federal government may have refused to complete the payment. This is so as the government on Wednesday, paid lecturers their November salaries in full without completing that of October […]
Nigerians ‘ll never witness APC beyond 2023 — Atiku
By Idowu Bankole Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has promised to provide enough funds for education, praying that Nigerians will never witness a repeat of APC government beyond 2023, which he says brought untold hardship on Nigerians. The PDP presidential candidate made this known at the party’s rally in […]
