By Adeniyi Onaara  To commemorate this year’s Eid-el-Kabir festival, the Federal Government has proclaimed Tuesday, July 20 and Wednesday, July 21, 2021 as public holidays. On behalf of the Federal Government, Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola made the announcement on Thursday. On the occasion, he congratulated Muslims in Nigeria and around the world. Dr. Shuaib Belgore, the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, issued …

By Fawziyyat Yusuf On Thursday, the International Olympic Committee said Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh, will receive the Olympic Laurel of the Tokyo Games on July 23 during the opening ceremony The Laurel is to recognise “outstanding individuals for their achievements in education, culture, development and peace through sport,’’ said the IOC. The 81-year-old Yunus, a social …

By Adeola Abdullah Justice I. Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, July 12, 2021, adjourned till October 5, 2021 for continuation of trial in the case of Afeez Adeshina Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, who was arraigned sometime in 2019 on an 11-count charge of credit card fraud preferred against him by …

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By Adeola Abdullah The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on June 25, 2021, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Disu Rafiu Adeigbe, 67, before Justice Sherifat Sholebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for offences bordering on stealing, conspiracy to steal, retaining stolen property, impersonation, forgery and use of forged …

Chidinma while being paraded by the Police in Lagos

By Adeola Abdullah The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 21-year-old Chidinma Adoara Ojukwu for allegedly killing the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Michael Usifo Ataga, in the Lekki area of the state. Miss Ojukwu who is a 300 level undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Akoka confessed to have stabbed Late Ataga several times with a knife at a …

By Adeniyi Onaara Veteran Yoruba actor, Deji Aderemi a.k.a. Olofaina has urged all parties involved in the sexual molestation case against Olanrewaju Omiyinka (Baba Ijesha to let ‘sleeping dogs lie’. Olofaina made the appeal on Thursday morning in Lagos during the resumed trial of Baba Ijesha at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja. He said such inappriopriate sexual conduct …

By Adeola Abdullah The Andy Uba Campaign Council (AUCC) has issued a statement that the frontline politician is not owing any bank contrary to a viral video purporting that Senator Andy Uba has a long outstanding unpaid debt with Heritage Bank. In a press statement, the Council stated that “there is no truth in the said claim that Andy Uba …