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Doyin Okupe Wife and son of Doyin Okupe, former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, begged a Federal High Court in Abuja to tamper justice with mercy on Okupe’s sentencing. Omolola and Adesunkanmi Okupe spoke as witnesses shortly after the court reconvened following the …

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has deployed additional 1,931 personnel to beef up security operations across Anambra, ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivities. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command, Mr. Edwin Okadigbo, made this known in a statement issued on Monday in …

Doyin Okupe The Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja has passed its verdict on the Director-General of the Labour party presidential campaign council, Doyin Okupe, saying he will spend two years in prison on 26 count-charge bordering on money laundering. Okupe is a former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to …

Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has revealed that the commission suffered 50 attacks in 15 states between 2019 and 2022. Yakubu made the revelation at the ongoing investigative hearing on attacks on INEC facilities by an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives. Giving …

Commercial bus drivers are lamenting over the deplorable state of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, one of the major federal roads in Southwest Nigeria. The 81-kilometre-long expressway connects the Ogun State capital, Abeokuta, and Ikeja, the capital of Lagos. It is one of the busiest inter-state roads in Nigeria and handles about …

The United Kingdom has listed Nigeria among African countries whose citizens can now apply for qualified teachers status through the Teaching Regulation Agency from February 2023. Other foreign countries which the offer extends to include Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. A publication early December …

Supporters and members of the campaign team of Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, have accused the authorities of the Yakubu Gowon Airport in Jos, Plateau State of deliberately preventing their aircraft from landing. Atiku held his presidential campaign in Jos on Tuesday. In a tweet on …

Sam Bankman-Fried Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled FTX founder was on Tuesday, charged with eight criminal counts, including conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly misusing billions of dollars in customers’ funds before the spectacular collapse of his cryptocurrency empire. An indictment detailing the charges was unsealed by a federal court judge in …

Huge crowd at the Minna rally on Wednesday. A huge crowd welcomed the APC’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to Minna, Niger State on Wednesday for a mega rally in the area. Tinubu was in Kaduna on Tuesday where the state stood still for him. The Ahmadu Bello Stadium used …

Lagos state logo The Lagos State government is anticipating revenue generation of N1.2 billion from agriculture in 2022. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, disclosed this at the 2022 annual Lagos Food Festival, which held at the Muri-Okunola Park, Victoria Island, Lagos. In 2021, the state generated a little above …