Foreign trips
18 Oct
The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate during the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has questioned the foreign trips embarked upon by both President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. Tinubu departed for the United Kingdom on October 2, 2024, for a two-week working leave and later left the UK for France on Friday, October…
21 Mar
President Bola Tinubu has banned all foreign trips by government ministers and officials for three months, according to a letter from the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila. The letter, dated Thursday, March 2024, was addressed to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume. It stated that Tinubu has imposed a 90-day ban…
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One Akeem Sumonu has been arrested by the Ogun State Police for allegedly deflowering and impregnating a 16-year-old teenager. The suspect was arrested on Tuesday, in the Olodo community of Odeda local government area of the state by operatives stationed at the community's security post. The victim's mother, who identified as Christiana,…
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Ikotun Plank Market was on Thursday razed by fire, with goods worth millions of naira destroyed. Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State
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The Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has pardoned Segun Olowookere, the young man who was sentenced to death in Osun for stealing a chicken in November 2010. Olowookere was granted a prerogative of mercy alongside 52 other convicts who had varying levels of sentences in correctional centres in Osun, by the governor. According to…
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A businessman based in the United Kingdom, Blessing Akinlemimu, has alleged that the Ondo State Police Command and the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 17, are planning to frustrate an ongoing investigation into an attack on him by hoodlums. According to Akinlemimu, he was attacked on November 12 in…
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The Federal Government has dismissed the allegations by the military leader of Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, claiming collusion between Nigeria and France to destabilise his country. According to the federal government, these claims exist solely in the realm of imagination, as Nigeria has never engaged in any overt or covert alliance with France—or any…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as laughable the claim by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to significantly reduce APC votes in Kano in the 2027 elections. Kwankwaso, on Wednesday, declared that if the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) was formidable enough to send the APC out of power in the 2023 general election, the APC,…
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The Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has exercised the prerogative of mercy towards 53 convicts serving time in various correctional centers across the state. These inmates had been convicted to various terms of imprisonment. Some of them had served substantial portions of their sentences, while others were sentenced to death and had spent at…