Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa, a former military administrator of Lagos and Borno State, has been appointed as the Chairman/CEO of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) by President Muhammadu Buhari. Marwa, a close ally of President Buhari, had worked assiduously as Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse (PACEDA) between 2018 Read more
The Nigerian Navy last year seized about 25,601 bags of foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country. This was revealed in the “Nigerian Navy Scorecard” for the year 2020, which indicates that as part of the continued drive to enhance Nigerian Navy’s capacity to effectively deliver on its mandates and motivate her personnel for improved Read more
Government has ordered that there must be the use of infrared thermometers for temperature check in all schools. Ogun State government has announced Monday, January 18, 2021for schools resumption in the State amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi A. Arigbabu made this known in a statement on Read more
The President-elect of the United States of America, Joe Biden, has appointed another Nigerian-born American, Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo, into his cabinet. Biden named Badejo when he announced the additional 20 members of the office of the White House counsel. Badejo is a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in the U.S. and served Read more
Secretary General of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Mohammed Abubakar is concerned about what he believes is massive fraud in the funds meant for the local governments in Nigeria. In the interview, he granted recently, the ALGON scribe speaks about the rot in the system and why he thinks the Nigerian President Read more
Ebizi Eradiri, the first female first-class law graduate of the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, has claimed that some lascivious lecturers attempted to shatter her ambition of making a first-class grade. She revealed this during a homecoming reception, tagged ‘#Schoolnobescam’ held in her honour by the Sele Eradiri Foundation in collaboration with other non-governmental organisations Read more
Friday’s event will be the culmination of a courtship that both families had kept under wraps. Dimeji Bankole, a former Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, will on Friday marry is Aisha Shinkafi Saidu, daughter Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State. His marriage to Aisha is coming four years after he divorced his first wife Read more
Items recovered from the suspects at the point of arrest are cars, mobile phones, laptop computers, passports, a digital video recorder and a chequebook. Personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Office, have arrested 10 persons for their alleged involvement in internet-related fraud. The anti-graft agency identified the suspects as, Jonathan Read more
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has condoled with the Chairman of Premier Lotto, Chief Kessington Adebutu, popularly known as Baba Ijebu, over the death of his wife, Mrs Rosemary Dacosta Kessington-Adebutu. This is contained in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, on Monday in Abeokuta. Mrs Adebutu died on Saturday Read more
EDUCATION …the school had recorded various academics achievements including a record of 98 per cent success rate during the last West African Examinations. The Ogun State Baptist Conference has applauded a teacher of Patterson Memorial Baptist Grammar School, Abeokuta, the state capital, Adeeko Folukemi who came third in the 2020 edition of the Maltina Teacher Read more
