It is often said police are friends of people; they are for peacemaking and not to create conflicts in our communities. In Alagbado neighbourhood, a team led by Inspector Akintobi Michael, a citizen of Ibadan, Oyo State is doing the opposite as it is allegedly forcefully collecting money from all the market women and motorbike…
A Nigerian soldier currently serving in Borno state has alleged that members of the Boko Haram attacked Gamboru Ngala in their presence but that their commander instructed them not to repel the insurgents. The soldier who did not want to be named told the BBC Hausa Service that apart from foot soldiers, choppers were seen…
For popular actress, Abimbola Oshin Ibironke, popularly known as Bimbo Oshin, it is not a time to laugh at all. As you are reading this, the pretty lady’s belongings have long been thrown out of her Dolphin estate, Lagos Island apartment and she has simply resigned to fate and gone to join her husband, Ola…
Despite a hasty apology – and robust showing at the weekend wedding ceremony his deputy, Moses Adeleke Adeyemo staged for his son – insiders disclosed the re-election attempt and political fortunes of Governor Abiola Ajimobi has suffered a huge blow over an explosive fight he had with his number two man at his office Tuesday…
Eighteen years after creation, Zamfara State still remains a traditional rural state due to some lapses, gross non-performance and corruption by virtually all the previous administrations of the state. In this analysis, our correspondent takes a peep at the state and the impediment that deters the progress and reveals that democracy still stand a chance…
Informants disclosed the quiet fight between Mr Ayo Fayose, the People’s Democratic Party’s candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial election in Ekiti state- and party deep pocket, Kashamu Buruji has deepened. And the two appeared to be working at cross road of party interest to actualise personal assertions. Buruji, operating under the official title coordinator of…
The level at which unemployment is taking its toll on Nigerian youths these days, everyone will agree, is nothing to write home about. The story you are about to read is a result of unemployment which has made a lot of our youths to dabble into anything in order to make ends meet. How can…
There are indications that Sterling Bank may go back to court against Aime Nigeria Limited, an Oil & Gas Products Marketing company over its failure to pay back a Judgment Debt arising from a trade finance facility of N120 million obtained in December 2008 for the purchase of petroleum products. We gathered that Aime Nigeria…
