Segun Adewole The Nigerian Army has arrested a member of the Islamic State in West Africa Province in Ogun State. The terrorist identified as Mr. Ibrahim Musa was arrested at No. 31 Abartura Street in Sango-Ota, Ogun State. The ISWAP member was on a mission to Lagos to acquire certain items for his group’s operations in Maiduguri,…
Russia is ready to cooperate with the European Union on cyber security, as President Vladimir Putin initiated international cooperation on information security although the idea got no support back then. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this to Sputnik on Monday. Earlier in the day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the EU should discuss cyber…
US President Joe Biden has endorsed a fragile bipartisan deal on infrastructure “without hesitation”, walking back from a threat to veto the plan if Congress failed to also pass a larger package to expand the country’s social safety net. Biden said on Saturday that he did not mean to suggest in earlier remarks that he…
Friday Olokor EX-President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed concern over the increasing crime wave in the country but concluded that most of them were caused by consumption of drugs. Jonathan expressed his views during a courtesy call on him by the Chief Executive Officer of the Albino Foundation, Jake Epelle, its management and partners to appreciate…
A 24-year-old woman, Abibat Kehinde, has been abandoned at Epe General Hospital, Lagos State, over N131,000 unpaid bills, three months after she gave birth to twins at the hospital. Kehinde told newsmen on Friday in Epe that her husband absconded after delivery on March 21, without paying the bills to facilitate her discharge from the…
Chukwudi Akasike RIVERS State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has received a formal letter of approval from the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, for the establishment of a Nigerian Law School campus in Port Harcourt. The letter was presented to Wike by the Director General of the Nigerian Law School,…
Our Reporter All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has joined others in celebrating House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. × The APC stalwart’s message was contained in his separate messages congratulating Gbajabiamila at 59 and Sanwo-Olu, who turns 56 today. The messages, signed by his…
The police in Edo State said it would rely on legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) as investigation continues into the killing of a 79-year-old man, Osariakhi Oronsaye by his 13-year-old son. Newsmen reported that the incident occurred at Egbon Estate in Evbuotubu, Benin City, on Sunday. The police spokesperson in the…
By: Solomon Odeniyi and Deborah Tolu-Kolawole The President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Christopher Isiguzo, on Monday reiterated the position of stakeholders in the media towards the National Press Council (Amendment) Bill currently before the National Assembly. He said a stakeholders’ meeting was important to settle the grey areas. He added that any regulation…