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Former Foreign Affairs Minister Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi has said he was not responsible for a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari calling for the arrest of President-elect Bola Tinubu. He said the seditious letter was embarrassing to him and his associates. The retired university don had received calls from home and abroad about the fake news, which has exposed the negative ... Read More »

The Lagos State Government has filed two counts of involuntary manslaughter, reckless and negligent acts against Chrisland School Limited over the death of a 12-year-old student, Whitney Adeniran, who died during the school’s inter-house sports activities in February. Chirsland, alongside four others – Ademoye Adewale, Kuku Fatai, Belinda Amao and Nwatu Victoria – who are also staff of the school, ... Read More »

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Men of the Ondo Police Command have arrested Pastor Kayode Salami, 47, for allegedly raping and killing a nursing mother Adejoke Oloje. It was gathered that the victim was staying in the church with her baby when the incident occured. Mother of the deceased, Mrs Deborah, said her daughter left home without any notice until she wad found dead in ... Read More »

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set aside the January 27, 2023 judgment of the Osun Governorship Election Tribunal, which voided the victory of Ademola Adeleke at the election held on July 16, 2022. In a judgment a moment ago, a three-member panel of the appellate court, presided over by Justice Mohammed Shuaibu, held that Gboyega Oyetola and his ... Read More »

Elumelu 9: Group Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation and celebrant, Mr. Tony Elumelu and Co-Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Dr Awele Elumelu, at the symposium held to commemorate Elumelu’s 60th Birthday held at UBA House, Marina, Lagos. The Group Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Tony Onyemachi Elumelu, CFR, clocked 60 years ... Read More »

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, indicated its intention to respond in a suit filed by Festus Keyamo against Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Feb. 25 poll. This was also as Oluwakemi Odogun, lawyer to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), told Justice James Omotosho ... Read More »

Aformer Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, have been convicted of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. A jury found that Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56 and medical “middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were guilty of a conspiracy to bring a young man to Britain to give his kidney with a view to his ... Read More »

The Federal High High Court sitting in Lagos has struck out the Federal Government’s suit seeking to recover and forfeit the sum of N70trillion it alleged was stashed in 29 bank accounts by looters. The sum was said to be enough to fund Nigeria’s budget for three years, and the looters, according to the government, were public officials. Justice Peter ... Read More »

The family of an undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Deborah Doofan, has been thrown into mourning after she died outside the Emergency Ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Surulere, due to a lack of bed space to admit her into a ward in the hospital for prompt treatment. Our correspondence gathered that until Doofan’s death, she ... Read More »