archiveJuly 11, 2021

  The Police Command in Zamfara has confirmed the abduction of Provost, College of Agriculture and Animal Science Bakura. It also confirmed the abduction of another school teacher of Government Science Secondary School Bakura in the early hours of Sunday. The Police Public Relation Officer Mohammed Shehu made the confirmation...

Bishop Mathew Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese on Sunday paid a condolence visit to Dr Joe Okei -Odumakin, widow of late Afenifere Spokesman, Mr Yinka Odumakin, at their residence in Omole area of Lagos. Kukah described the late Odumakin as a light to the new generation. The News Agency...

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State has made it compulsory for all public and civil servants in the State to wear the local fabric, as he declared every Thursday of the week ‘Adire Osun Day’. The Governor on Saturday launched mass production, promotion and marketing of Adire Osun. He said...

Traditional rulers in the South-West, Kogi and Kwara states have called for the immediate release of the aides of the Yoruba activist, Mr Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), who were arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) during a raid on his Ibadan residence. The monarchs, under...

Shehu Sani, a former member of the Senate, has lamented the incessant attacks and abductions being perpetrated by bandits in Kaduna State. The former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th assembly, was reacting to the abduction of the Emir of Kajuru, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu, and 12...

Nigerian singer, Olanrewaju Fasasi, popularly known as Sound Sultan, has died at the age of 44. HE died after battling Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma. This was disclosed in a statement signed by Dr. Kayode Fasasi on behalf of the Fasasi family. The statement read, “It is with heavy hearts that we...