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The Oyo State Government has urged the state high court in Ibadan not to grant bail to the ex-queen of Ooni of Ife, Naomi Shilekunola, Hamzat Oriyomi, and a school principal, Fasasi Abdullahi.The court had on December 24 remanded the trio in prison over the death of 35 children during a Christmas Funfair they organised in Ibadan, which resulted in a fatal stampede.The defendants spent both Christmas and Ne...

President Bola Tinubu has approved  $20,000 foreign medical treatment, bullet-proof SUVs and cooks, among other benefits, as a retirement package for service chiefs and generals, which the Nigerian Medical Association, the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors reportedly faulted.According to the Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service for O...

A Police spokesperson confirmed the clash that occurred in Owo but could not confirm the number of casualtiesThe Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has ordered a dawn-to-dusk curfew in Owo, a town in Ondo State, following a violent clash that resulted in the death of four persons. According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Ebenezer Adeniyan, the curfew is until further notice.There was ...

Justice K. B. Olawoyin, presiding over Court 8 of the Oyo State High Court, Ring Road, Ibadan, has fixed Tuesday, January 13, to deliver his ruling on the bail application filed by Ooni of Ife’s ex-queen, Naomi Silekunola, Alhaji Oriyomi Hamzat, and Abdulahi Fasasi.Hamzat is the proprietor of Agidigbo FM, an Ibadan-based radio station; while Fasasi is the Principal of Islamic High School, Bashorun, Ibadan....

Ordinarily, the large deposits of lead in Enyigba community in Abakaliki Local Government Area and Ameka community in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State should be a thing of joy, happiness and a source of wealth to the people.But from every indication, it is not so because of the side effects of the mineral on the lives of the people.The presence of the mineral is rather a mixture of blessing...

Military retirees on Tuesday staged a protest at the Ministry of Finance in Abuja, barricading the entrance with canopies and chairs as they demanded full payment of their long-overdue entitlements.This demonstration follows a similar protest in December, during which retirees shut down the ministry over the government’s failure to settle their claims.The protesters alleged they were owed a 20% to 28...

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, has raised the alarm that he, his family and those around him have been receiving threats over his New Year message on President Bola Tinubu.His supporters, under the auspices of Obidient Movement, also yesterday implored Nigerians to take note of the open threat issued by the All Progressives Congress, APC, against their principal....

The Albinism Association of Nigeria has raised the alarm over the growing prevalence of skin cancer within the albinism community, revealing that at least 40 of its members are currently battling various stages of the deadly disease.The association also lamented that 16 of its members died as a result of skin cancer in 2024.The national president of the association, Dr Bisi Bamishe in a statement made avai...

The Ogun State Police Command has paraded 25 individuals suspected of various criminal activities, including kidnapping, murder, and cultism. The arrests, made over the past three weeks, were highlighted by Commissioner of Police Lanre Ogunlowo during a briefing at the command’s headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta.Among those paraded was Afeez Ayeteru, who is accused of brutally beheading an 80-year-old woman, Aduke, in the Ado-Odo Ota area. Ayeteru allegedly entered the victi...

A notorious bandit leader, Dantsito, has given communities in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State two weeks to raise and pay him a levy of N200m, failing which he would attack the communities and burn houses.According to an indigene of the area, Mohammed Rabo, who spoke to residents of the communities are in fear, with some already fleeing.Rabo said Dantsito demanded the levy be paid either in...