Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has commiserated with the Awolowo family, the government and people of Ogun State and Nigeria in general on the death of MRS HID Awolowo, wife of late Obafemi Awolowo, who died on Saturday at the age of 99. Saraki, in a statement issued on Saturday, disclosed that he was “enthusiastically looking…
News reaching us indicates that wife of late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, Madam HID Awolowo, has passed on. The respected woman was said to have breathed her last on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at her residence in Ikenne, Ogun State. Her husband died in May 1987. Details later.
A Lebanese national has been apprehended by the Nigeria Police for an alleged assault on a 13-year-old girl (name withheld). The suspect, Marwan Callas, 37, was reportedly arrested on September 17, 2015 in Benin City, the Edo State capital. It was said that the Police received a report that the suspect, who is also and…
**Condemns Killing Of DSS Men Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, has vowed to make life miserable for those involved in oil pipeline vandalism in the country. The Civil Defence chief made this declaration following the killing of operatives of the Department of State Security, DSS, some…
The names of 19 state governments given the Federal Government bailout have been released by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the agency in charge of its disbursement. According to the country’s apex bank, which released the names on Friday, the 19 states were the ones which applied for the money out of the 36…
Senate President, Bukola Saraki is yet to be arrested by the Nigeria Police as ordered by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja on Friday. This is because, according to what we gathered, the Force is yet to receive the directive to carry out the action. Saraki was taken to the CCT by…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, which recently acquired a new equipment to combat oil pipeline vandalism in the country, has begun the testing of the gadget, a drone outfitted with an infrared camera and the Corps’ logo. The drone is designed to GPS to document evidence of vandalism and then used to…
The Senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Solomon Adeola, has express joy and relief with the family of Steve Nwosu, the Deputy Managing Director of The Sun newspaper, following the release of his kidnapped wife, Mrs Toyin Nwosu, in the early hours of Thursday by her abductors. Reacting to the news of the release of…
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, September 17, 2015, met with members of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, who paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja. The doctors, led by their president, Kayode Obembe, expressed joy in Saraki’s leadership style in the National Assembly and urged for more support of the lawmakers in growing the…
The kidnapped wife of Deputy Managing Director of Sun newspaper, Steve Nwosu, Toyin, has been released. The woman was freed on Thursday morning by her abductors after about three days in their den. Her kidnap had raised reactions from a cross section of Nigerians, who appealed to the kidnappers to free her unconditionally. It was…