By Bukola Olamona | A former Commissioner during the late Governor Adebayo Adefarati’s regime, Chief Femi Aluko has said that not many missionaries have the wherewithal to manage schools if returned to them. Aluko reacted to the decision of the state government to return missionary schools back to the original owners during an exclusive interview […]
Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti | Eight persons accused of setting up Ikere-Ekiti divisional police station ablaze have been arraigned by the police before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court over alleged arson and stealing. The accused person whose names were given as; Olatayo Abiodun, 25, (m) Olaoye Toyin, 23, (F) Fasoroti Ifedayo, 25, (m) Ojo Idowu, 18, […]
By Solomon Runsewe | A 20-year-old man, Bobose Tejumola has been arraigned before an Akure Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defrauding one Ayodeji Sunday Gbogi, N1.6million through his bank account The accused person committed the offence sometimes in the month of June 2020 at Akute in the Akure Magisterial District. The Prosecutor, Inspector Adeoye Adesegun, told […]
By Bisi Olominu | In the 60s and 70s, Nigeria was not notorious as we have it today. It was peaceful and people could close their eyes and sleep peacefully. But that peace was shattered by the three years civil war where millions of people lost their dear lives. Ever since, Nigeria has not remained […]
Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo | Four suspected ritualists hawking human parts have been paraded by the Osun State Police Command. One of the suspects, Lukman Garuba, 31 confessed to the police that he bought a human part from some ritualists for N2000. Garuba was arrested in Iwo, Osun State when the police burst the ritualists’ den […]
By Bayo Fasunwon | In Nigeria, the country that houses many of the happiest people in the world and of course one of the perceived most corrupt nations of the world, this period of the year is often for penitence, intercession, supplications coupled with fasting. Many Nigerians would be engaged this hour in fervent prayers […]
FOR the umpteenth time, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Reverend Father Matthew Hassan Kukah has once again raised a lamentation on the horrid and gloomy state the Nigerian nation is drifting. Kukah’s Christmas sabre-rattling homily entitled ‘A Nation in Search of Vindication’ raised some critical but fundamental issues threatening Nigeria’s cohesion and survival. […]
