Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has assured lawmakers that the Commission has the capacity to conduct Local Government elections across the country, if the laws are amended to empower the Commission to do so. He gave the assurance on Thursday 25th July 2024, when he led a team from…
A wanted drug kingpin behind the 2000.6kg Cannabis Sativa seized in a concrete mixer truck in Adamawa State on 2nd December 2021, Henry Chukwuneku Okamaru (a.k.a. Lawrence Ik Okamaru) has been arrested in Ondo state after five months of manhunt by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The agency spokesman, Femi Babafemi,…
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…
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.…