A Federal High Court, Abuja has made an interim order, freezing all bank accounts of Benue State Government maintained in some banks in the country following its inability to pay back N333 million loan borrowed in 2008. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order following an ex-parte motion brought by the Asset Management Corporation of…
Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun has said that the sum of N13bn is required to fix the failed portions of the Lagos- Ota-Abeokuta road in Sango-Ota, Ado-Odo/ Ota Local Government Area. Governor Abiodun disclosed this during a Town Hall meeting on 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and 2022 Budget for Ogun West Senatorial…
Failure of the governor Willie Obiano led Anambra State government to meet safty concerns was behind the suspension of Commissioning Anambra International Airport by Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), it has been learnt. Contrary to claims by the state government that it met all requirements for the approval in line with international standards, when Nigerian…
Hours to the commencement of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention, party leaders and governors are worried over the breakdown of the plan to pick officers through consensus. Former Osun State Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola has refused to step down for Alhaji Taofeek Arapaja in the race for deputy national chairman (South). Oyinlola is being…
The Group Managing Director of First Bank Nigeria Holdings, Urum Kalu (U.K) Eke, has resigned from his position before the end of his tenure amid a leadership tussle at the lender. U.K Eke was appointed in 2016 as the GMD of FBN Holdings. He has however tendered his resignation to the company since August 10,…
Wasiu, who is one of the two men caught with a fresh human head, other body parts and body stump of a female victim, in Saki town, Oke Ogun area of Oyo State, has said that he once bought a dry skull to carry out a ritual for a fraudster (Yahoo boy) before he graduated…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Thursday, debunked a statement that it called for the boycott of November 6, Anambra gubernatorial election The group stated that its position in the political sphere has nothing to do with the forthcoming Anambra election. The group equally berated Nigerian politicians, warning them to leave the group out of…
As the feud between Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State and his predecessor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior festers, there are reports that their political godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has thrown his weight behind the governor, raising anxiety in the state’s political cycle. The fight between Oyetola and Aregbesola over the control of…
A young man, Dada Fasoto Arifanlajogun who is said to be the witch doctor who ‘spiritually fortifies’ Yoruba agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since he was arrested three months ago in his home in Ekiti. This was disclosed by his mother, Olomitutu…
