Labourer Who Allegedly Beheaded Farmer Remanded An Akure Chief Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of a 24-year-old labourer, Sunday Clement, in Olokuta Correctional Centre, for allegedly beheading a 30-year-old farmer, Taye Alatoye. Men of the Ondo State Police Command arrested Clement after he allegedly killed the farmer on their […]
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On foreign News, EU Fines TikTok €345m Over Child Data
On foreign News, A European Union regulator fined Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok 345 million euros over child data breaches on Friday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said in a statement that it has handed down the “administrative fine”, which is equivalent to $369 million, over the breaches it uncovered in […]
Tinubu to depart Abuja to attend UNGA in New York on Sunday
President Bola Tinubu will on Sunday, depart Abuja, to attend the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA in New York, United States of America. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents on Friday. The Presidential spokesman said that […]
Back-to-School: Parents grapple with fees, pressure mounts on public schools
Two weeks into the new academic session across the country, many parents and guardians are still grappling with the payment of school fees in private schools. With the economic situation that arose from federal government’s policies, especially fuel subsidy removal and the management of the naira leading to rise in […]
FRSC mourns victims of Anambra road crash
The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dauda Biu, has condoled with the families of victims of the crash along the Onitsha-Awka Expressway, Anambra State, on Friday. Reports have it that the fatal crash occurred on Friday morning, involving a Mitsubishi L300 commercial Bus with vehicle registration number XE 245 […]
Corpses from natural disasters rarely pose health risk- Red Cross, WHO
The World Health organisation and the Red Cross have revealed that contrary to certain beliefs, the bodies of victims of natural disasters or armed conflict rarely pose a health threat to communities. The health agencies said victims, who have died from trauma, drowning or fire do not normally harbour organisms […]
FG woos investors for Nigeria’s lithium deposits
The Ministry of Solid Minerals has made efforts to attract investors to explore lithium deposits in the country. This was according to a statement by the Ministry’s Deputy Director of Information, Alaba Balogun. At the exhibition booth of the Ministry of Solid Minerals at the Pan Pacific Hotel during the […]
Federal Government to produce 24,000 passports daily
The Federal Government is planning to produce at least 24,000 passports daily to completely eradicate the delays citizens experience in obtaining their passports. The production would commence immediately after the 200,000 backlogs of passports are cleared. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo disclosed this in Abuja on Friday when a […]
Garbu Shehu Says Buhari goes to farm four days a week.
Garba Shehu, media aide to the former President Muhammadu Buhari, revealed that his principal has been spending his time away from office attending to his farm in Daura, Katsina State. Shehu made this known in a statement released on Thursday titled ‘One Hundred Days after Buhari’. Shehu said Buhari chose […]
OAU Increases Tuition Fees For Students
The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has announced an adjustment to the fees to be paid by both its new and returning students for the new academic session. In a press statement by its Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, the university disclosed that new students in the faculties […]