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Social critic and human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, on Monday declared that nobody can intimidate her as she continues to demand good governance from the President Bola Tinubu administration. Aisha Yesufu Yesufu insisted that she will continue to criticise Tinubu’s government over the rising economic hardships and worsening insecurity in …

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the deaths of a man and a woman suspected to be lovers in an apartment in the Ojodu area of the state. The command’s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday. He said the sudden and unnatural death was …

The Lagos police command has arraigned six suspects before a court for allegedly pirating Toyin Abraham’s movie Malaika Malaika’ premiered in Lagos on December 17. It also made its theatrical debut on December 22. Aminat Mayegun, the spokesperson at the Federal Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon in Ikoyi, Lagos, earlier paraded …

Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana has sued the Federal Government (through the Attorney General of the Federation), the Minister of Education, the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and 36 states over the issue of out-of-school children in the country. Falana , a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, together with …

 EFCC Chairman Ola Olukayode   Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that the anti-graft agency uncovered how a religious sect is laundering money for terrorists in Nigeria. Olukoyede made the revelation on Wednesday at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja during a one-day dialogue on “Youth, …

  The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Adamawa Governor. In a judgment a moment ago, a five-member panel of the apex court unanimously dismissed the appeal by Aishatu Ahmed Dahiru, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in …

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said the explosion that occurred near a refuse dump outside the Bureau of Public Enterprise premises in the Maitama area of Abuja was not bomb-related. The Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, SP Josephine Adeh, said this in a statement …

•I have no comment —Adebanjo   AKURE—THE crisis rocking the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, deepened, as the Reuben Fasoranti group abolished the position of Acting Leader and Deputy Leader of the group, presently occupied by Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Oba Oladipo Olaitan. But when contacted for his reaction to …

File image of late Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old Chrisland School student Mrs Blessing Adeniran, mother of a late student of Chrisland Schools, Opebi, Lagos, testified on Wednesday at the trial of the school and four others for involuntary manslaughter before an Ikeja High Court. She was led in evidence by Lagos …

Leadway Capital & Trusts Limited has enjoined adult Nigerians to discard the phobia associated with writing a Will, stressing that writing a Will is not a death sentence. The company, at a media interactive session in Lagos, explained that a Will is a legal document that outlines how a person’s …