The audience reached from Hilda’s Baci (Hilda Bassey Effiong) recent attempt to enter the Guinness World Records as the person with the record of the longest cooking period was over 4.8 billion, a media intelligence report said The report was published by Media Intelligence Consultancy, P+ Measurement Services, which claimed …
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Two Arrested For Raping Grandmother, Housewife To Death In Ondo State
Men of the Ondo State Police command have arrested two suspected rapists in the state for allegedly raping a grandmother and housewife to death in two different locations of the state. While 27-year-old farm labourer, Mima Chinecherem, was arrested in Ore, in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state, in …
Read More »LOTUS Bank Supports Yabatech With Donations, Renovations, Cash Prizes For Students
As part of its commitment to supporting the educational sector in Nigeria, LOTUS Bank, a leading non-interest financial institution, has donated a brand-new 18-seater bus to Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. The donation was made alongside other contributions, which include the renovation of the college’s Banking & Finance Department, the …
Read More »$21bn Revenue, 100,000 Jobs Coming From Our Refinery — Aliko Dangote
Amid encomiums from eminent personalities, including President Muhammadu Buhari and presidents of five other African countries, founder and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, yesterday expressed optimism that the newly commissioned 650,000pbd refinery would employ over 100,000 Nigerian youths and generate over $21 billion in revenue. According to him, …
Read More »Yoruba Monarchs Set Agenda For New President-elect
Traditional rulers in Nigeria under the aegis, Yoruba Obas Forum has stressed the need for the incoming administration to grant constitutional role for monarchs in line with the 1969 constitution. This as the group which consists of monarchs in the South-West and North-Central disclosed that nothing should stop the May …
Read More »UK Bars Nigerian Students, Others From Bringing Family Members Into The Country
The United Kingdom has announced that foreign students cannot bring family members into the country. Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary made the ban known as part of the mechanism to reduce net migration. The Home Secretary said all foreign students – apart from those on postgraduate research programmes – will …
Read More »I Performed Better In Office Than Lalong – Ex Plateau Governor
Former Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang has said he stands out in a class of his own when his tenure is compared with the out-going administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under Governor Simon Lalong in eight years. Jang said he left the landscape of Plateau dotted with legacy …
Read More »Police Kill Kidnap Suspect, Rescue 10 Victims In Benue State
Benue State police command has killed a suspected kidnapper and arrested three others after a gun battle and rescued 10 kidnapped victims, including a nine-month-old baby, and a medical doctor with Federal Medical Centre in Makurdi who was taken hostage alongside his brother and driver. The commissioner of Police, Okoro …
Read More »FG Inaugurates NSCDC Headquarters In Sokoto
The Federal Government has inaugurated the Sokoto State Command Permanent Administrative Headquarters of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). Mr Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, who inaugurated the project on Monday, noted with pride the tremendous transformation being witnessed by the corps in the past two years. …
Read More »Twenty Students Hospitalised As Tear Gas Attack Forces School Closure
About twenty students of Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Osogbo, have been left hospitalized, after a tear gas attack in the school this morning. The tear gas was due to a morning drill exercise of the mobile policemen of the 39 Squadron Division located opposite the school along Osogbo-Ikirun road in …
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