Author: Alade Adisa

The attention of the State Government has been drawn to a disturbing video currently circulating on social media. The video shows a group of students, presumed to be from Excel College, Ejigbo, engaging in acts of smoking and consumption of alcohol within what appears to be a dormitory setting. Read Also: Ekiti State Government Condemns Surge in Kidnappings, Calls for Urgent Security Review The State Government views this incident with the utmost seriousness, as it goes against the core values and behavioral standards expected within the educational system of Lagos State. We wish to inform the public that the Ministry of…

Professor Wande Abimbola, former Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, has decried the poor pay of university teachers, saying their monthly take-home pay barely equals a gardener’s three-hour pay in the United States. He opined that without any significant improvement in the payment and provision of adequate facilities for teaching and learning, the Nigerian University System is heading for an imminent collapse. Abimbola, who is now based in the United States, also took a swipe at the poor salaries of lecturers, saying what a professor earns monthly is just about what a gardener earns in three…

Over 75,000 inmates in the various correctional centres across the country may go hungry as vendors supplying food items to the facilities may stop supplies to the facilities over N5.6 billion debts owed them by the federal government. This has raised the fear of starvation and malnutrition in the nation’s correctional centres. The development has made a group, the Alliance for Good Governance, AGG, call on President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene to avert what it described as “an avoidable humanitarian and economic disaster.” READ ALSO: NCoS concedes struggle in overseeing nearly 4,000 condemned inmates In a statement signed by its…

The Federal Government, FG, on Tuesday dragged Omoyele Sowore before a Federal High Court over an alleged defamatory publication against President Bola Tinubu on social media platforms, Facebook and X, formerly Twitter. FG, in the charge it entered before the Federal High Court in Abuja through the Director of Public Prosecutions, Federal Ministry of Justice, M. B. Abubakar, maintained that Sowore, by the false accusation, committed offences contrary to and punishable under Section 24 (1) (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024, as well as sections 59 and 375 of the Criminal Code Act. Equally cited as…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday said over 4.4 million Nigerians have pre-registered online in the ongoing nationwide voter registration exercise. According to the latest update released by the Commission, a total of 4,445,505 Nigerians completed their online pre-registration as of Sunday, September 14, 2025 – just four weeks after the exercise commenced on August 18. READ ALSO: INEC decentralises voter registration to wards in FCT National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, who signed the statement, reaffirmed the Commission’s commitment to ensuring seamless and inclusive voter registration ahead of the 2027 general…

Getting basic items for school children—especially the books they need to write in or read—has become difficult for many, due to the high cost of printing materials

After two days into its five-day warning strike, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended the strike, giving the federal government two weeks to meet its demands. The decision to call off the strike was taken at a virtual Extraordinary National Executive Council (E-NEC) meeting on Saturday, September 13, where doctors resolved to resume work from 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 14. In a statement signed by NARD President Dr Tope Osundara, and Secretary General, Dr Odunbaku Kazeem Oluwasola, issued after the meeting, NARD said the suspension was influenced by the commencement of payment of the 2025 Medical…

N210m allegedly withdrawn from his account  The death of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, governorship candidate in the 2024 election, Bamidele Akingboye, has continued to raise dust, as policemen are now probing whether he actually died peacefully or was involved in a domestic accident that led to his death. This is just as the police are probing the allegation that over N210 million was withdrawn from his account shortly after he was reported dead. In light of the above, policemen have visited his house in the Victoria Garden City, Lekki area of Lagos. READ ALSO: CUPP, SDP condemn APC’s ‘false open…

Finally, on Wednesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, recognised the new leadership of the opposition African Democratic Congress, ADC, led by former Senate President, David Mark as the National Chairman of the party. In a change to the party’s particulars on its website in Abuja, INEC listed the new executive members of the party, confirming the resolution of months of leadership tussle within the ADC. READ ALSO: INEC confirms final voter register for Anambra governorship election, 146,353 new voters added According to the commission, the newly recognised National Working Committee of the ADC is led by Mark as National Chairman,…

For the second time this year, the national grid collapsed on Wednesday morning, throwing most parts of the country into darkness. Data supplied by the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) showed that load allocation to electricity distribution companies dropped to 20 Megawatts as of 11.45am on Wednesday. Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) confirmed the disruption in a post on its X handle. READ ALSO: Fresh national grid collapse triggers nationwide blackout “Dear Valued Customers, Please be informed that the power outage currently being experienced is due to a loss of supply from the national grid at 11:23 hrs today, affecting electricity…