Participants in this year’s audition for the annual Fuji music talent hunt, Goldberg Fuji T’o Bam, were taken aback on Wednesday when a visually-impaired man, Ibraheem Kareem, was led into the Havannah Hotels in Gowon Estate, Egbeda, venue of the contest and expressed his intention to participate. The whole thing initially appeared like a…
Igbo traders in Akure, the Ondo State capital, are at loggerheads with indigenes and monarch of the town over an alleged plan by the Deji of Akure to dethrone their Eze Ndigbo, Sir Gregory Iloehike. Trouble started when Iloehike was allegedly assaulted at the palace of Deji during the visit of the former to the…
A court in Akure has granted a request by the Ondo State Board of Internal Revenue to seal offices of Zenith Bank in Akure and Ondo for refusing to pay tax to the state government. On Monday, November 17, 2014, tax officials from the state stormed the offices of the financial institution and locked them.…