EDO2020: Presidency Intervenes, LOC Says Games Continue
News Investigators/ The Local Organising Committee, LOC, Edo2020 has announced the continuation of the national sports festival going in in Benin city, Edo State capital, counting on presidential intervention.A More...
Backup Day: NITDA Calls For Data Protection, Duplication
News Investigators/ The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on Wednesday called on Nigerians to ensure the protection of their data by duplicating them in safe places, to avoid loss. The More...
No Plan To Ban “Okada” Business In Oyo State —Makinde
News Investigators/ Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, says his administration has no plan to ban commercial motocyclists in the state.Mr. Makinde made this known on Friday during the inauguration of a newly More...
Yoruba Thought Leaders Talk Tough, Says, It’s Time To Take Our Forests From Terrosists
News Investigators/ Yoruba Leaders of Thought Wednesday, with a vow to resist the marauding bandits, terrorists and sundry criminals killing and maiming Yoruba people on their ancestral soil.The group who rose More...
Lagos Red Rail Transit Will Be Operational In 2022 -MD
News Investigators/ The Lagos State Government has said it is determined to ensure that the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red Line becomes operational latest by the fourth quarter of 2022. The Managing Director, Lagos More...
Lagos CP Plans To Adopt Abandoned Day-Old Baby
News Investigators/ The Commissioner of Police (CP), Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, said he looked forward to adopting an abandoned day-old baby boy who was rescued by the Police on Monday. Mr. Odumosu said this More...
Lagos Indigenes Raised Alarm About N127m Fraud At Scholarship Board –EFCC Alleges
News Investigators/ The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said that Lagos indigenes alerted it about the alleged N127 million fraud at the Lagos State Scholarship Board. The News Agency More...
Call Fayose To Order, Group Tells PDP Leadership
News Investigators/ A group, Concerned South-West Professionals(CSP), has called on the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to call former Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, to order, More...
SouthWest Govs., Traditional Rulers Back NEC On Forest Mgt
News Investigators/ Governors from the SouthWest zone of the country and some first class traditional rulers on Saturday okayed the decision of the National Economic Council (NEC) for each state in Nigeria to manage More...
Cocoa, Plantain Farmers Appeal To Buhari Over Herders/Farmers Clashes
News Investigators/ Cocoa and Plantain Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (CPFAN) on Friday in Akure urged President Muhammadu Buhari to address frequent clashes between farmers and herdsmen. Its chairman, Ayodele More...
Ekiti Govt Ready To Pay N7,2m In Compensation To Victims Of #ENDSARS
News Investigators/ The Ekiti Government will pay N7. 2 million in compensation to 24 petitioners in 14 days, Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda, has said.Mr. Fapohunda made this known during a visit to More...
Lagos LCDA Aspirant Lists Priority Projects
LAGOS/News Investigators/ A chairmanship aspirant for Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos State, Ajoke Moromoke Obe, has vowed to introduce developmental programmes that would make the More...
Army Refutes ‘Disjointed Reports’ Of Killing Of 5 Soldiers In Borno
News Investigators/ The Army has refuted some media reports that five soldiers were killed and others abducted by insurgents during repair of an electricity facility along Maiduguri- Damaturu road on Monday. The More...
COVID-19: Oxygen Demand In Lagos Spikes To 400 Cylinders Daily –Sanwo-Olu
News Investigators/ Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that the demand for oxygen by coronavirus patients has increased to 400 cylinders per day. Mr. Sanwo-Olu made this known on Sunday in a statement More...
3 Dead, 5 Vehicles Burnt As Petrol Tanker Explodes In Ogun –FRSC
News Investigators/ The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed that three persons died while several others were injured on Tuesday, when a petrol tanker exploded on IBB Boulevard in Abeokuta. The FRSC More...
Fayemi Approves 121 Board, SSAs, SAs Appointments
News Investigators/ The Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, has approved 121 new appointments into boards of agencies and commissions in the state.The appointments were announced in a statement made available More...
We Must Accept Protests As Part Of National Development- Tinubu
News Investigators/ A former governor of Lagos and national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, says for Nigeria to attain parity with older and more established democracies, the More...
Alleged APC Thugs, Men In MOPOL Uniforms Sack Polling Units, Abduct Corps Members In Idanre
News Investigators/ It was a theatre of war in Idanre, Ondo State, as political thugs sympathetic to the All Progressives Congress (APC) invaded polling units in Omifun, Jingbe area, shot sporadically into the More...
Ondo Poll: Security Agencies Beef Up Security At INEC Office
News Investigators/ Security has been beefed up at the state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akure, Ondo State, as the commission prepares for the Saturday governorship election More...
Osinbajo Celebrates Fasoranti’s `Life Of Significance’ At 94
News Investigators/ Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday, felicitated with elder statesman, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, on the occasion of his 94th birthday. Mr. Osinbajo’s virtual remark at Fasoranti’s birthday More...
APC crisis: Fayemi’s Suspension, Joke Taken Too Far -Aide
News Investigators/ The Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Yinka Oyebode, has described the suspension of his principal by the Ojudu group as “a joke taken too far.” Mr. Oyebode More...
Ekiti APC Crisis: Ojudu’s Group Suspends Fayemi, State Exco
News Investigators/ The crisis rocking the Ekiti All Progressives Congress (APC), on Friday took another dimension as a group loyal to Sen. Babafemi Ojudu says it has suspended Gov. Kayode Fayemi from the party More...
Performance Audit C’ttee Not To Witch-Hunt Caretaker Chairmen
News Investigators/ Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, inaugurated a Performance Audit Committee for Local Government Administration in the state.The governor, who inaugurated the committee at the More...
Army’s Impartiality In Political Process Commendable -Makinde
News Investigators/ Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Monday, commended the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai for leading a professionalized Army, declaring that his administration would continue More...
Ondo Election: No PDP Governor Is Backing Ajayi -S/West Chairman
News Investigators/ The Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committe in the South-West, Dayo Ogungbenro has dismissed as untrue the insinuations that some PDP governors are throwing their weight More...
Lagos Assembly Service Commission Promotes 103 Staff
LAGOS/News Investigators/ The Lagos House of Assembly Service Commission (LAHASCOM) has promoted 103 officers and urged the newly promoted management and senior staff to be good ambassadors in the discharge of More...
Oyo Govt. Adopts Report Of 2017-2019 Contracts Review Committee
…..says report will aid anti-corruption drive News Investigators/ The Oyo State Government has, on Tuesday, adopted the report of the committee set up to review projects and contracts signed between 2017 and More...
Court Jails Two For Impersonation
News Investigators/ Justice Ibrahim Watilat of the Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Monday, slammed three months custodial sentence on two fraudsters – Owolabi Aderibigbe and Habeeb Popoola More...
Osun Assembly Passes Bill Forbidding LGAs’ Councillors From Impeaching Council Chairmen
News Investigators/ The Osun House of Assembly on Friday passed an amendment bill restricting local government areas’ (LGAs) councillors in the state, known as parliamentarians, from impeaching their chairmen. The More...
Murder: 4 To Die By Hanging In Ekiti
ADO-EKITI/News Investigators/ An Ekiti High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Monday sentenced four accused persons– Rashidat Abdul (f) 37, Oluwatosin Akarakiri (m) 32, Abdulrasheed Mutairu (m) 22 and Iyoriochile More...
Moniya inferno: We’ll Rebuild, Allocate Shops To Owners, Makinde Assures Victims
News Investigators/ Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, on Monday, visited the scene of the fire incident that razed some shops at Moniya, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Friday, assuring victims More...
Akintola’s Attacks On Makinde In Bad Blood -CPS
News Investigators/ The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Taiwo Adisa, has described comments credited to a former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Niyi Akintola (SAN), More...
25-Yrs Old Dies Of COVID-19 Related Disease In Lagos -Official
LAGOS/News Investigators/ The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, has announced another COVID-19 related death, involving a 25-year-old male patient. Mr. Abayomi, a professor, through his Twitter More...
Ex-attorney General, Richard Akinjide Is Dead
News Investigators/ A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Richard Akinjide is dead. Mr. Akinjide, aged 88, died in the early of hours of Tuesday at his Ibadan home. The More...
Tinubu Expresses Sadness, Says Kyari’s Death Should Not Be In Vain
News Investigators/ The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has expressed sadness over the death of Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff. Tinubu, in a condolence More...
COVID-19: Ondo Cancels Easter Services
AKURE/ News Investigators/ The Government of Ondo State has reversed its earlier decision to allow Christians to hold Church services on Sunday, saying the discovery of a second index case Covid-19 informed its More...
Covid-19 Lockdown: Widows, Widowers, Aged Gets N1.5M NGO Largesse
News Investigators/ To cushion the hardship from COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos State, the “Touch of Love and Lifting Hands Foundation”, an NGO, on Wednesday concluded its two-day door-to-door relief items delivery More...
Makinde May Have Contacted Virus At Villa, Not Ibadan Rally -Aide
News Investigators/ Contrary to insinuations that the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, who on Monday, tested positive to Covid-19, contacted the disease at a zonal rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) More...
Covid-19: We Are Working On Palliatives, Makinde Assures …Says Testing Centre Almost Ready
News Investigators/ Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Saturday, informed residents of the state that his government is already working on palliatives to ease the pressure on the people following the partial More...
Corona virus: Oyo Activates Emergency Centres, Names Incident Manager
News Investigators/ In its determined effort to stop the spread of the novel corona virus in the State, the Oyo State Task Force on COVID-19 has activated emergency Operating Centres (EOCs) in the State. The Task More...
We Shall Prioritise Road Infrastructure To Attract Investment To Ogun, Says Abiodun
ABEOKUTA/By Alaba Ajibade/ Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun on Wednesday, said that his government would prioritise road construction as part of efforts to attract more investment to the state. Mr. Abiodun said More...
344-Year-Old Tortoise, Alagba Dies In Ogbomoso
The famous 344-year-old tortoise in the traditional palace of Soun of Ogbomoso, in Oyo State, is dead. Private Secretary to Oba Jimoh Oyewunmi, Soun of Ogbomoso, Toyin Ajamu confirmed the passing away of the More...
Fidelity Bank Supports Financial Inclusion Drive With N120m Promo
(News Investigators)/ Fidelity Bank Plc on Thursday flagged off its Get Alert in Millions (GAIM) Season 4 promo to strengthen the Federal Government’s financial inclusion drive. Speaking at the event in Lagos, More...
My Wife Sleeps With Her Ex-lover, Man Tells Court
IBADAN/News Investigators/ An Ibadan-based salesman, Subar Ibrahim, on Wednesday prayed a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his three- year-old marriage with Rukayat, on grounds of infidelity and threat More...
At Last, FG Set To Restore Electricity Supply To Ikale, Ilaje Communities
NDPHC (AKURE)/Executive Director, Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), Ifeoluwa Oyedele, on Monday said communities in Ondo South Senatorial District would soon be connected to the national grid. The More...
UK DFID To Invest £5m In PLANT Programme In Lagos
(News Investigators)/ The United Kingdom Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin has announced that the UK Department for International Development (DFID) would invest five million pound in PLANT programme More...
Makinde Declares N48 Billion Worth In Assets
Gov. of Oyo State IBADAN/By Alaba Ajibade – The Oyo State Governor State, Seyi Makinde, on Monday, published his asset declaration document, which reveals he has in excess of N48 billion in both cash and More...
