archiveJuly 2021

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Otunba Gani Adams, has begged Yoruba monarchs and political leaders to save Sunday Igboho from being destroyed by Buhari’s security machine. Igboho real name Chief Sunday Adeyemo has been agitating for a Yoruba Nation, using rallies to galvanise the people around the idea. But on...

  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...

  By Kadiri Abdulrahman The Federal Government approved the ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement in November 2020, and deposited the instrument of ratification on Dec/ 15, 2020, thus becoming the 34th State Party to ratify the treaty. AfCFTA is projected to benefit the country by...

Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, on Friday, hosted the leadership of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) led by its President, Bishop Francis Wale Oke. The meeting tagged 'Prayer Breakfast' and held at the Government House, Ibadan, saw the national officers of the body in attendance. Equally, zonal officers...

  The Plateau chapter of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has decried incessant and wanton destruction of crops on farmlands in the state. The union stated this in a communiqué issued on Saturday in Jos by its Secretary, Mr Peter Amine, at the end of its congress held on Friday...