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IG of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris Mr Dan Bature, an Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) of Police in Charge of Zone 11 comprising Oyo, Osun and Ondo states, says any policeman checking vehicle particulars on the highways is on illegal duty. Bature said this on Wednesday in Ibadan during a two-day familiarisation …

Edo Deputy Gov. Odubu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday October 17, 2016, arraigned one Joseph Ovbokhan Odubu and his company, Even Handed Services Limited before Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, sitting in Benin, Edo State on a 3-count charge bordering on forgery, uttering …

Reports filtering out of the aviation circles indicate that the embattled boss of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, is at the centre of another bribery allegation which will shake the industry to its foundation when it blows open.   We gathered that Engr. Saleh Dunoma, who is the …

Garba Shehu Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the statement by the President in response to his wife. Aisha, was merely a joke. Shehu, reacting to the responses ignited by Buhari’s statement that his wife, Aisha, belonged in the kitchen, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism on the release of more of the kidnapped Chibok girls, after 21 of them were freed by Boko Haram on Thursday, following more than two years of captivity. Speaking at a joint press conference with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Friday in Berlin, …

There was a fire incident that engulfed the Packaging Material store at our Noodles factory in Ikorodu yesterday. The fire affected mainly the Packaging Material section and part of the laminate stores. The main Production Factory and the Finished Product Store were not affected by the fire. Fire-fighting officials were invited …

The ICON Publications, publishers of The ICON and The ICON Online, will be rolling out the drums to mark its third anniversary in grand style on Sunday, 30th October 2016. According to the managing director of The ICON Publications, Mr. Julius Akpovire-Enyeh, some of the highlights of the event billed …

Obadina The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday presented its first witness, PW1, Umar Bello, in the trial of one Olugbenga Obadina, Chairman and Managing Director, Almond Projects Limited, who is facing an eight-count charge of fraud before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Obadina …

Tinubu Former Lagos governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has drawn a parallel between President Muhammadu Buhari’s time as a young military head of state and now that he is the president of the country. The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, pointed out that while Buhari was in a …

Today – 1st October is a day of celebration for us Nigerians. On this day, 56 years ago our people achieved the most important of all human desires – freedom and independence. We should all therefore give thanks and pray for our founding fathers without whose efforts and toil we …