The Ondo State Government has dismissed recent reports suggesting the existence of a court order mandating the House of Assembly and its Speaker, Olamide Oladiji, to form a medical panel for the assessment of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s health. The government has labeled the information as fake, asserting that it does not accurately represent the ongoing court proceedings on the matter. In a statement issued by the Ondo Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Charles Titiloye, it was clarified that the court had only granted leave for the lawyers/applicants involved to apply for Mandamus and serve parties in the case. Titiloye noted…
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President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, is expected to get a total allocation of N21 billion in next year’s budget estimates presented to the National Assembly by the President last month. A breakdown of the proposed figure, however, shows that Mr Gbajabiamila proposed N104 million for the purchase of computers and printers for ‘local travel and transport for international training,’ the CoS office plans to spend N579 million, while ‘miscellaneous’ is expected to gulp N103 million. A further breakdown of the proposed budgetary allocations shows that the reconstruction and repair of the CoS’s official residence is to get…
The Britain’s government has unveiled a raft of measures aimed at reducing “unprecedented” and “unsustainable” levels of legal migration to the United Kingdom (UK), migration to the United Kingdom (UK), including banning healthcare workers from bringing their families and dependants to the UK. A statement issued by the Home Office on Monday said the new plan to slash migration levels and curb abuse of the immigration system would deliver the biggest-ever reduction in the country’s net migration. According to the Home Office, the revision will encourage “businesses to look to British talent first and invest in their workforce”, helping UK…
A young lady identified as Olamide Egbayelo who graduated with a Third Class Degree from Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko has bagged a Master’s degree with 100% distinctions at the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom. Despite not graduating with remarkable grades from AAUA, Olamide did not give up on education instead she pushed on and relocated a few years after to the United Kingdom with a determined mindset. She bagged her master’s degree in Strategic and Digital Marketing with an outstanding distinction from the University of South Wales, Wales in the United Kingdom. Olamide took to Twitter…
The Nigerian Army on Monday accepted responsibility for a series of bombings that pummelled villages in Kaduna, leaving scores of civilians dead as part of a protracted operation targeting armed bandits along the country’s northwestern flank. Many residents of Tundun Biri village in the Igabi Local Government Area were killed in the air raids, with several others injured on Sunday night in what an army chief told state officials was an error. At least 126 civilians were killed in the Incident. “The last information we received gave us 126 bodies. Our men are still searching all the locations to possibly…
A Nigerian man identified as Abodunde David Olubunmi from Ipoti Ekiti, in Ekiti State has been arrested after killing his wife and the mother of his three children barely a year after relocating to the UK. According to the deceased woman’s brother, as shared on Facebook, the Suffolk Police have identified the husband as the Prime and Sole suspect in her untimely demise. Additionally, he disclosed that his sister’s children remained in the UK and are now under the care of the country’s Social Services The Facebook post also provided insight into the profound impact of the sister’s death on…
The Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Nigeria, David Greene, revealed that over 150,000 Nigerians applied for US visas and 30,000 students applied. According to him, issues related to visas would fully become a thing of the past, saying the mission is doing everything within its power to tackle such challenges He stated that it was impossible to approve all visa requests as demand would always be more than supply. However, he reassured Nigerians that the embassy was doing its best to clear its backlog since the COVID incident. “We are doing the best we can to get…
The Comptroller- General of Nigeria Immigration Service (CGI), Caroline Adepoju, on Friday, assured Nigerians that they would get their passports within three weeks of submitting their applications Mrs Adepoju gave the assurance while inaugurating a new passport office in Igbogbo community in Ikorodu, Lagos State. Mrs Adepoju said passports would now be processed and issued speedily provided applicants submit all the required details in their applications. She advised the public to ensure that they renew their passports at least six months before their expiration to avoid problems while applying for visas to some countries. Mrs Adepoju thanked the people of…
The Federal Government is set to implement a new minimum wage from April 1, 2024. This was disclosed by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Idris Mohammed, on Thursday, November 30, in Abuja. Mohammed disclosed that the existing minimum wage of N30,000 would expire at the end of March 2024. He said that the Federal Government’s proposed expenditure included N24.66 trillion for salaries in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Recall that following the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023, the Federal Government agreed to pay N35,000 to each of its workers to cushion the…
In a shocking incident that has ignited public outcry, some yet to be identified number of Lagos police officers resorted to forceful robbery, holding a man at gunpoint and making off with N390,000 after initially attempting to extort N1 million from him, despite finding no incriminating evidence. The incident, according to the victim which occurred on the 25th of November 2023, at Mile 12 after been driven from Ebutte, Ikorodu around 11:00pm has raises serious concerns about the conduct of law enforcement officers in the Nigerian Police. Here is a Summary of the Incident. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4.…