Late Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Samuel Adeshina, will be finally laid to rest on Friday, April 25, 2014, the state House of Assembly has announced. Chairman of the House committee on Information, Oyebo Aladetan, while briefing newsmen at the Assembly Complex disclosed that arrangements have been finalised to give the late Speaker…
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FCMB Founder Receives CIS Lifetime Achievement Award
Founder of FCMB Group, Otunba Michael Olasubomi Balogun, CON, has been honoured by the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, CIS, in appreciation of his outstanding contributions to the stockbroking profession in Nigeria. The erudite entrepreneur was conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the body at a ceremony which took place at the 2014 Annual Dinner…
Ogun APC Chieftain Beats, Strangles Wife Over Refusal To Attend Party
Bashorun Awosanya, the alleged wife-beater An All Progressives Congress, APC, topshot in Ogun State, Bashorun Bayo Awosanya, has allegedly beat his wife just because she did not attend a function with him. The politician almost strangled the woman to death, but for the prompt intervention of another man in the house. Awosanya allegedly pounced on…
United Axes Moyes, Giggs Takes Over
David Moyes has finally been sacked as Head Coach of Manchester United. The Scot was axed on Tuesday after a stormy season at the Theatre of Dreams club. The red Manchester lost 2-0 to Everton on Sunday in a league match. Moyes took over from his fellow countryman, Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired from the…
Minister Suspends 'Park & Pay' Scheme In Abuja
The controversial park and pay scheme introduced some months by the Federal Capital Territory Administration has been suspended. This piece of information was contained in a press statement released by Nosike Ogbuenyi, Special Assistant on Media to the FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed. The release disclosed that the decision to shelve the system was as a…
APC Wants Immediate Release Of Abducted Borno Schoolgirls
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned the abductors of the over 100 students of Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno, who were kidnapped last Tuesday, to free their victims. The Nigeria’s major opposition party made this call on Monday in Kwara State through its spokesman, Lai Mohammed. Mohammed, the Interim National Publicity Secretary…
How Skye Bank Wrecked Lagos Bus Franchise Scheme
Skye Bank Plc has been accused of ruining a noble initiative by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, a transport agency set up in August 2009 by the state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, to look into the transport system in the state. The Lagos Bus Franchise, an idea later brought up by LAMATA to…
Jonathan Holds Next Security Meeting Wednesday
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has rescheduled another security meeting for next week. This came after governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were left out in the first meeting which held on Thursday in Abuja. It was gathered that Jonathan decided to hold another meeting with the governors, along with the Service Chiefs, to discuss…
CHIBOK KIDNAP: Army Regrets Misleading Nigerians
The Nigerian Army has withdrawn its earlier claim that about 107 schoolgirls, who were kidnapped in Borno State on Tuesday, have been rescued by its men from the camp of their abductors. The army’s initial figure was rubbished by the Principal of the school, who claimed that only 14 girls have so far returned, after…
BORNO KIDNAP: Only 14, Not 107 Schoolgirls Have Been Rescued–Principal
Contrary to claims by the Nigerian Army that about 107, out of the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by some gunmen on Tuesday have been rescued, the Principal of the school, Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State, Mrs Asabe Kwambura, has revealed that only 14 girls are with them. She told Premium Times that the…