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Akinwande Soji-Ojo Operatives of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service have responded to a fire outbreak at a petrochemical plant in Lagos. The fire incident occurred at Mega Plastic, in Ilupeju area of the state. Director of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, said an emergency alert was received at 07:26 am, on Saturday. She said operatives of the...

The National Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Dr. Dickon A.O. Akoh, has called on Nigerians to work towards safeguarding the human rights of the people with a view to building peaceful and inclusive societies without recourse to ethnic or religious sentiments. Akoh made the call in his message to commemorate the 2023 United Nations International Day of Peace. The...

Government of the people, for the people and by the by people is the phraseology often cited in summary for the system of government that we have decided to practice in Nigeria, called Democracy. It allows participants to ventilate their opinions by exercising their fundamental Freedom of Expression, guaranteed by the Constitution, such that the election Petitioners were able to do...

Akinwande Soji-Ojo Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday, cleared the air on the controversy surrounding his relationship with the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 11 election, Usman Ododo, saying they are not cousins. The governor spoke at the third edition of Governor Yahaya Bello Seminar for Political and Crime Correspondents/Editors in Abuja, with the...

By Emmanuel Adeleke Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has given the reasons behind the conversion of Trans Amusement park into a housing estate. Trans Wonderland or Amusement Park which is a few minutes drive from The University of Ibadan was opened on November 29, 1989 during the administration of late Brigadier General Sasaenia Oresanya. Attractions at the underutilised park include...

Akinwande Soji-Ojo Dr. Olayemi Cardoso, has formally assumed duty as the acting Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Cardoso was recently nominated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu following the resignation of Mr. Godwin Emefiele as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In a statement on Friday, Dr Isa AbdulMumin, Director, Corporate Communications of the CBN the Deputy-Governors-Designate have...

By Emmanuel Adeleke The Kano State Matchmaking Marriage Association, better known as Mai Dalilin, has asked a tricyclist, Auwalu Salisu, to select four out of the 10 women that would be presented to him for marriage. Salisu, a tricyclist in Kano, became an internet sensation after returning the sum of N15 million to the Chadian owner, who forgot the money in...

Akinwande Soji-Ojo Bandits have reportedly abducted unknown number of students of Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, in the early hours of Friday (today). An indigene of Sabon Gida village, Abubakar Sani, who spoke with newsmen on Friday morning, said the bandits, who were in large numbers, stormed the students’ off-campus residences in the village. Sani said the bandits invaded the area...

The lawmaker representing Oyo South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Sharafadeen Alli, has described the death of Princess Adebowale Adenike Atoyebi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Women Leader in Oyo North Senatorial District as a great loss to the family and the party. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen by his Special Adviser on Media,...

Akinwande Soji-Ojo Prominent Nigerians including the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election, Peter Obi, former ministers, ex-governors, non-serving senators, top politicians and highly-placed individuals and firms, have lost the land allocated to them in Abuja by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA). The revocation order, which was contained in a public notice issued on Thursday by...

Akinwande Soji-Ojo United States District Judge for Northern Illinois, Nancy Maldonado, has stayed an order compeling Chicago State University, (CSU), to release academic documents of President Bola Tinubu to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Magistrate Jeffrey Gilbert had on Tuesday ordered CSU to release Tinubu's academic records to Atiku by the end of Thursday. But during an emergency...

Akinwande Soji-Ojo The Lagos State Police Command has disclosed that the autopsy conducted on singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, had been concluded. The command's spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this via a post on his X page. “Autopsy has been concluded. Awaiting results,” he wrote. The Police had earlier confirmed the exhumation of the corpse of the late Mohbad. Inspector-General...

By Emmanuel Adeleke Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has apologised to his principal, Godwin Obaseki. Shaibu apologised while receiving Catholic Men Organisation in Nigeria, on Thursday. Speaking, he asked Obaseki to forgive and forget, announcing that he had relocated to his new office in line with the governor’s directive. Shaibu, added, that there are still some work to be done...

Akinwande Soji-Ojo Osun State Governor, Sen Ademola Adeleke, has told a former commissioner in Oyo State, Mr. Mutalubi Adebayo (SAN), to drop his threat of dragging him and the government to court over unpaid allowances of judges working in the state. Adebayo had on Thursday gave Adeleke a 10-day ultimatum to pay arrears of allowances owed retired and serving judges in...

Akinwande Soji-Ojo Rupert Murdoch has announced that he will step down as Chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp. The 92-year-old billionaire made the announcement in a memo to employees, on Thursday. “For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change. But the time is right for me to take on...