Ex-international footballer, fugitive drug kingpin jailed 24 years for cocaine importation
…NDLEA re-arrested fugitive after nearly 10 years on the run By Olasunkanmi Akoni A former international footballer, Segun George Hunkarin, and a fugitive drug trafficking suspect, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, have been sentenced to a combined 24 years imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Lagos for importing cocaine into Nigeria. Justice Musa Kakaki convicted the […]
Ram sellers petition Fashola
THE Goats and Rams Sellers Association of Nigeria (GORASAN) has appealed to Lagos State government to intervene in the trouble brewing between the association and the management of Alaba Rago ram market. Chairman of the association, Alhaji Raimi Alao Dauda, at the weekend, alleged that the Iba Local Council Development Area, in connivance with the […]
We’ve not had good leaders — Chief (Mrs) Opeolu Solanke – Ogunbiyi
This is one interview that should have taken place 50 years ago. But then, where were we? (That is, these two writers). Chief (Mrs) Opeolu Solanke-Ogunbiyi, born April 12, 1910, is a woman of steel yet full of compassion. First married to Ladipo Solanke, they moved from Nigeria to Sierra Leone and then England not […]
New Press Council Bill cannot be enforced (2)
THE Council had to concentrate on other areas of its functions. Apart from the Complaints Committee was the Registration and Disciplinary Committee which was to work with the NUJ to produce a register of Journalists. No such register was ever produced and handed over to the Council.
EFCC asked to probe currency printing scandal
THE Movement Against Corruption in Nigeria (MAC), has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the currency printing scandal involving the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Chukwuma Soludo.
ACF decries VC ranchor at ABU
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has decried the lingering rancor at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, over the appointment of a substantive Vice Chancellor for the school.
