By Rasheed Sobowale The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), a Yoruba nationalist group, was recently in the news following the arrest of its security outfit’s personnel due to an alleged attack on a Fulani leader, Iskilu Wakili, at Ayete, in Oyo state. The personnel were taken to the Force Headquarters, Abuja, from Panti in Lagos. The […]

A Customary Court in Mapo in Ibadan, Oyo State, dissolved a 15-month-old marriage of a sales attendant, Stephen Akinseloye, over his wife’s poor cooking and lack of manners. Akinseloye, who lives in Elewura-Challenge area in Ibadan, told the court that his wife, Opeyemi, has caused him so much pain by her immaturity. Delivering judgment, the […]

Israel Adesanya was beaten by light-heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz at UFC 259 last weekend to end his ‘champ-champ’ hopes and could be forced to sit out for six months after his points defeat by Blachowicz. Adesanya, the UFC middleweight champion was bidding to become just the fifth fighter in the promotion’s history to hold two […]

All students kidnapped from their boarding school in Zamfara state have been released and have arrived on government premises, the governor of the state told AFP Tuesday.

Suspected armed bandits raided a school dormitory in Zamfara overnight, a teacher and parent told AFP on Friday, raising fears of another mass kidnapping in the Northern region. Bandits kidnap schoolgirls in Jangebe, Zamfara “More than 300 girls are unaccounted for after a headcount of remaining students,” said a teacher at the Government Girls Secondary […]

Akeredolu orders probe By Dayo Johnson— Akure A man Oluwapelumi Fagboyegun has alleged that the Ondo State Chief Judge, Olarenwaju Akeredolu, detained him for three years for going to their father’s house. Oluwapelumi who claimed to be a stepbrother to the Chief Judge made the allegation in two minutes, seventeen seconds video that went viral […]

Victor Ogunyinka Former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has joined the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. Gbenga was a front row member of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, having led the campaign team of defeated presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku. Daniel is expected to pick up the membership card of APC […]

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday as the first female and first African head of the beleaguered World Trade Organization, saying a stronger WTO would be vital for the global coronavirus recovery. The WTO called a virtual special general council meeting at which member states officially selected the former Nigerian finance minister and World Bank […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Fire is currently raging at Iddo Railway Terminal, Ijora Olopa Area of Lagos state. Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the fire outbreak, said men of the federal and state fire services are on ground battling to put out the raging fire. According to eyewitness, […]

We don’t support violence, brigandage, jungle justice and unnecessary self-help Dayo Johnson – Akure Chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, has appealed to residents, in particular the Yorubas in Ibadan, Oyo State not to take laws into their hands following the violence that erupted in Shasha. A statement personally signed Saturday night […]