BOLA BAMIGBOLA, in this report, recounts the harrowing experiences of travellers and drivers navigating the neglected Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa Expressway, bringing their tales of hardship and near-death encounters on the road FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Tayo Obalorun, a civil engineer, returning to Ile Ife, Osun State, for the first time since graduating from Obafemi Awolowo University in 2005, that fateful…
Delta State Ministry of Health has begun refund on moneys extorted from students in authorized study fees in the state’s Colleges of Nursing Asaba and Sapele. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Onojaeme, who monitored the refund exercise on Wednesday at the state College of Nursing, Asaba, disclosed that the extortion involved the schools’…
The Ikeja Dynamic Lions Club, District 404B2, has carried out renovation works at the Agidingbi Primary School in Ikeja, Lagos State. The club also donated about 50 pairs of corrective glasses to some residents on Wednesday. The donation, in partnership with the Lions Club International Foundation, was part of the club’s initiatives to complement the…
The Senate panel probing the N30tn Ways and Means loans secured from the Godwin Emefiele-led Central Bank of Nigeria by the Federal Government has said it will seek an extension of the time allotted for the investigation. At the inauguration of the panel on March 11, 2024, Senate President GodsWill Akpabio gave the panel a…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has disagreed with a claim by a former Vice President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Prof. Nwoke Chijioke, that the agency’s chairman, Ola Olukoyede, subjected ex-governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to media trial. The allegation followed revelations made by Olukoyede on Tuesday about the outcomes of the…
The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, on Thursday, sealed no fewer than 751 medicine shops in the Gombe open drug market. The PCN is a Federal Government agency charged with the responsibility of regulating and controlling the education, training and practice of pharmacy in all its aspects in line with the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria Establishment…
NIGERIA joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Malaria Day on Thursday, with patients lamenting the about 23 per cent rise in the cost of antimalarial medications between November 2023 and April 2024. Though the Federal Government said it was taking steps for intervention, Nigerians still grapple with the high cost of prices…
The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has clarified that the video circulating on social media depicting alleged harassment and robbery at a traffic stop was not recorded in Nigeria. This clarification was provided in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, via his social media handle on Thursday. The statement disclosed that…
No fewer than 6.9 million candidates sat the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination between 2019 and 2022 with only 2.03 million of them admitted into tertiary various institutions while 4.87 million candidates failed to secure admission. Among the 4.87 million candidates, who failed to secure admission, are 4,385 candidates who scored 300 and above out of…
The Kebbi Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted about 6,240 pieces of cap-sensitive dynamite explosives along the Yauri-Jega Road. The Area Comptroller of Customs, Iheanacho Ojike, said the dynamites were intercepted by the joint border patrol team of Customs, Army, police, Immigration and the Department of State Services while on intelligence-based patrol…
SCORES of demonstrators on Thursday stormed the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja, to demand the resignation of the National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. The protesters hinged their request on the recent suspension of Ganduje by a faction of his ward executive and the bribery allegation levelled against him by the Kano…
THE Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Fr. Matthew Kukah, has expressed worry about what he described as declining diversity and meritocracy in Nigerian universities. He said he found that public universities in the North are not open to the idea of having churches built on their campuses. Kukah said this on Thursday…
