Veteran Nigerian singer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has lost his father to death. The musician’s dad, Justice Chukwudifo Oputa, breathed his last on Sunday, May 4, 2014 after a brief illness. Late Oputa was a former Justice of the Supreme Court in Nigeria. He headed the popular Justice Oputa Panel under administration…
Chairman of Lagos State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Tajudeen Agbede, has promised to install Circuit Camera Televisions, CCTV, in motor parks in the state as part of the union’s effort to strengthen its security systems. Agbede disclosed this on Thursday while reacting to the bomb explosion that killed over…
Skye Bank Plc has been accused of ruining a noble initiative by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, a transport agency set up in August 2009 by the state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, to look into the transport system in the state. The Lagos Bus Franchise, an idea later brought up by LAMATA to…
President of Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Ibinabo Fiberesima, on Tuesday, led some members of the guild to Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power. She, along with about 79 other stakeholders in Nollywood, paid a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja and installed him as AGN’s Grand Patron. Nollywood gladiators…
The former governor of Bauchi State, Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu, has been appointed as the new National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Mu’azu replaces the ousted Bamanga Tukur, who was forced to resign last week. Mu’azu’s emergence was adopted on Sunday night at a meeting attended by President Goodluck Jonathan; his vice, Namadi Sambo;…
The official photographer of President Goodluck Jonathan, Callistus Ewelike, has been shot by some unknown gunmen in Abuja. Ewelike was attacked in front of his house in Nyanya, an Abuja suburb, on Monday night. He was about getting down from his car when one of the two gunmen, who came on a motorcycle, shot him…
Over 4000 Community Development Associations in Osun State have endorsed the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, for a second term in office. The CDAs, numbering about 4,350, at an event held recently in the state, expressed their support for the governor and promised to massively vote for him in the gubernatorial election holding in the state…
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has reiterated its commitment to continue to educate Nigerians on their fundamental rights. The Commission further stated that knowing these rights will protect Nigerians. According to the Executive Secretary of NHRC, Professor Bem Angwe, the Commission will continue to work in support with other agencies in achieving this aim.…
“Our attention has been drawn to a calculated attempt to smear the image of CMB Building Maintenance & Investment Company Limited and some of its hard working staff via a reckless message purportedly concocted by a somnambulist. “Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have joined issues with the baseless and laughable text message aimed at misleading the general…