Not less than five people have been confirmed dead and others hospitalized at the infectious diseases center, Olodo in Egbeda LGA following the ‘Love feast (Ipese)’ planned by a white garment church. According to The Punch newspaper, It was recorded that the incident happened to occur in the church environment, in Apata Ido LGA has put the entire community in chaos. However, according to a source that remains anonymous, it…

Just a few days to the nation’s 64th independence anniversary, organizers of the #FearlessOctober1 protest have insisted that the military, police, and the Department of State Services (DSS) would not stop them from going ahead with the planned demonstration.Disclosing this to newsmen on Saturday, the National Coordinator of the Take It Back Movement, Juwon Sanyaolu, and the Director of Mobilization of the group, Damilare Adenola, said they have written to…

Agitation for a return to the regional system of government has generated a heated debate among Nigerian Senators from the southern and northern regions, with the lawmakers expressing sharply contrasting positions. This development came to the fore at a two-day retreat on the amendments to the 1999 Constitution, organized by the Senate Committee on Constitution Review in collaboration with the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) in Kano on Saturday.While…

Four bloggers—Precious Eze, 38, Olawale Rotimi, 47, Rowland Olonishu, and Seun Odunlami—have been remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for allegedly cyberstalking and false dissemination. Punch newspaper reported that the bloggers committed the offences against the Chief Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Holding Company PLC (GTCO), Segun Agbaje which aimed at defaming him. The paper added that Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the bloggers…

A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abubakar Umar, has said that he gave a former governor of Benue, Gabriel Suswam the sum of $15.8 million cash (N3.1 billion) at his Abuja residence in 2014. The former governor and his finance commissioner, Omadachi Okolobia were accused of diverting N3.1 billion from the state coffers.They were arraigned before Ahmed Mohammed, a federal high court judge in 2015. They…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Elders Forum has waded into the acrimonious relationship between Governor Siminalaye Fubara of Rivers State and his predecessor and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.The PDP Elders apologized to Wike “for what Fubara is doing to you” on Saturday (today) at the Rivers State Ijaw Peoples Congress.Led by the Executive Director of Finance, NDDC, Boma Iyaye, the elders said the Ijaw…

The Ondo State Government has approved a N3.5 billion counterpart fund for the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), aimed at bolstering the construction and renovation of public primary schools across the state. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s Chief Press Secretary, Ebenezer Adeniyan in a statement said the governor revealed the plan during the State Executive Council meeting on Thursday. Addressing journalists after the meeting, Commissioner for Education, Olaolu Akindolire, highlighted that the…

Ahead of the October 1 EndBadGovernance protest, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Ishola, held a strategic meeting with the protest organisers at the state headquarters in Ikeja. According to a statement released by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, the meeting was part of proactive efforts to maintain law and order before, during, and after the protest. Commissioner Ishola reassured the organisers that robust security arrangements…

The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, 1st of October as a public holiday to commemorate the 64th Independence Day Anniversary. On 1 October 1960, Nigeria was granted full independence from Great Britain. Magdalene Ajani, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Interior disclosed this in a statement on behalf of Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo. Mr Tunji-Ojo congratulated Nigerians at home and abroad on the occasion. He praised the patient and hardworking Nigerian men and…

Lagos state police command has commenced a trial of its four police officers who allegedly extorted a sum of N1m from 3 corps members(NYSC) in Surulere, Lagos. Recalled, that an X user named Oluyemi Fasipe shared this on his page https://x.com/yemiefash/status/1839377933917438314?s=46.According to the Statement by Fasipe, It was deduced that the NYSC corp members were said to be driving along the Surulere Expressway when a group of police stopped them…

President Bola Tinubu has submitted the names of the inaugural Governing Board members of the North West Development Commission (NWDC) to the Senate for confirmation. This follows the President’s signing of the North West Development Commission Bill into law on July 24. Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, announced the nominees, which include Ambassador Haruna Ginsau from Jigawa State as Chairman and Professor Abdullahi Shehu Ma’aji from…

LONDON — In a shocking revelation, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted that he considered launching a military operation to seize millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses from the Netherlands during the peak of the pandemic. This surprising detail, shared in his upcoming memoir Unleashed, highlights the extreme steps Johnson was willing to take as the UK faced a vaccine shortage in 2021. Johnson explained that he instructed the…