2023 Not on my Mind Wole Soyinka “Here we go again the same boring illiterate public interlopers who lack the courage of their conviction and must steal the identities of their betters. One can only hope that the public has learnt to identify FAKE NEWS and join in the urgent task of exposing and disgracing these despicable touts. For the ...
Court Cases
January, 2022
December, 2021
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24 December
Maid confesses to smashing Lucky Igbinedion’s mum’s head with stool, while sleeping
A 25-year-old housemaid, Dominion Okoro, on Tuesday in Benin revealed that she killed Madam Maria Oredola Igbinedion, the 85-year-old mother of a former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. Narrating how she carried out the nefarious act on December 2, Okoro, who was arrested in her hometown, Calabar, said she hit her late boss with a stool while sleeping ...
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11 December
N69.4b ‘debt’: Jimoh Ibrahim loses bid to recover assets, accounts
The Court of Appeal in Lagos on Friday dismissed an appeal by the Chairman of Global Fleet Group, Jimoh Ibrahim, challenging the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON)’s seizure of his 12 assets and freezing of all his accounts over his alleged N69.4billion debt. The appellate court upheld the November 18, 2020 order of Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal ...
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9 December
Ogun restates ban on roadside parking on Sagamu Interchange-Abeokuta express road
The Ogun State government has restated the ban on indiscriminate parking of vehicles along the Sagamu Interchange – Abeokuta express road. A statement in Abeokuta on Wednesday by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Dapo Abiodun, Mr Kunle Somorin said the renewed enforcement of the ban is with immediate effect. According to the statement, “this is not a new law ...
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8 December
“Fani-Kayode is impotent, We never had sex,..4 kids through IVF (artificial insemination)”
Precious Chikwendu, the estranged wife of Femi Fani-Kayode, says all her four children with the former aviation minister were conceived through artificial insemination. Fani-Kayode and Chikwendu’s marriage hit the rocks in 2020 over the former’s domestic violence claim and the latter’s counter-claim of infidelity. They have since been in a heated legal tussle for the custody of their four children. ...
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8 December
Adedoyin fights hypertension and diabetes in detention, as Court rejects Bail
A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the request for bail made by the detained founder of Oduduwa University, Ile-Ife, Dr. Ramon Adegoke Adedoyin over the murder of a Masters student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Timothy Adegoke. Adegoke was allegedly murdered at Hilton Hotel, Ile Ife, Osun State owned by Dr. Adedoyin. Adedoyin had, in an ex-parte ...
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3 December
Court sets Sotitobire free, discharged & acquitted
Court of Appeal has free the founder of Sotitobire church, Alfa Babatunde..and even declaring himdischarged and acquitted. The court of appeal siting in Akure, Ondo state capital has set aside the judgement of the Ondo state high court that sentenced the founder of the Sotitobire Praising Chapel. An Ondo State High court had sentenced the Prophet to life imprisonment over ...
November, 2021
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29 November
IGP Transfers Rahmon Adedoyin to Abuja Over Murdered OAU MBA Student
Usman Baba, the Inspector-General of Police, has waded into the case of Timothy Adegoke, the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) MBA student who was found dead at the Hilton Hotel and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Osun State. A police source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said a team from Abuja arrived at the Osun Police Command on November 25 to work ...
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27 November
Nigerians ask,…and so what ? as Court tags bandits terrorists
Nigerians and indeed many all over the world are worried that calling bandits terrorists would require a windy, long process. On Friday, the Federal High Court Abuja proscribed bandit groups as terrorists. In a ruling delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo on Friday, the court specifically held that activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups, constitute acts of terrorism. ...
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27 November
It’s Official, from horse’s mouth..Tinubu declares for 2023 ! Yakasai supports
A founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum and elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has revealed that he would support the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s presidential bid in 2023. Tinubu had on Wednesday visited the elder statesman at his Abuja residence. Yakasai revealed that the ex-governor of Lagos was at his Abuja residence to ...