The Think Yoruba First Organisation has urged the National Assembly (NASS) to reject the proposed federal bill that seeks to grant indigenous rights to Nigerians based on residency or marriage. According to the organisation, the bill, which was proposed by a member of the House of Representatives (HoR), Kalu Okezie, would erode the cultural and…

Justice Adebayo Yusuf of a High Court in Kwara on Thursday sentenced three artisans to death by hanging over the death of Saheed Lawal, a fellow Artisan in Offa, Offa local government area of the state. The artisans: Isiaka Jimoh, Lekan Ahmed, and Adebayo Saheed are auto mechanics at Amuyo in Offa and were found…

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has revealed that Lagos State currently faces a deficit of 30,000 doctors and a significant shortage of nurses, pharmacists, dentists, laboratory scientists, and other allied health professionals. Speaking, on Tuesday, at the official handover of key medical infrastructure to contractors for conversion into modern academic facilities, Abayomi…

Thousands of persons were rendered homeless, with businesses and worship centres demolished in Agric Bus Stop, Owusu 1 Community Development Area (CDA), Ikorodu, Lagos. When The Guardian visited the area, officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) were seen demolishing the buildings with the support of officials from the Lagos State Ministry of…

The House of Representatives, yesterday, set the nation’s polity agog with some signature constitutional amendment proposals, including a bill seeking to shift the country from a presidential democracy to the parliamentary system of government.