Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has won the Global University Network for Innovation Africa (GUNA) award for 2020 for Exemplary Leadership in the West Africa region. Prof. Peter Okebukola, former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC),…
Edema Fuludu, a member of Super Eagles’ 1994 AFCON-winning squad, says partnership between the public and private sector is crucial to grassroots football development in the country. Fuludu told the Newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos it was important for government…
An Upper Area Court sitting at Kasuwan Nama in Jos, on Wednesday sentenced a 19-year-old student, Divine Chinedu and a 35-year-old pastor, Oluwashola Adewumi to two years and 4 months in prison respectively for stealing a car. The Judge, Lawal…
An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos, on Wednesday, sentenced two traders to two years imprisonment each for stealing wood planks worth N180, 000 from a building site. The police charged David Bassil,45, and David Monday, 29,…
Mr Femi Yusuf, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara, has called for an increase in intelligence gathering to curb high rate of crime in the country. Yusuf made the call on Wednesday in Ilorin, in an interview…
Some Resident’s in Anambra capital city, Awka, have criticized the recent increase in electricity tariff payable by power consumers across the country in the first month of the year. Newsmen correspondent who sampled the views of residents on the increase…
A 25-year old man, Titus Tyozum, was, on Tuesday, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by a Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court, for defrauding his boss of the sum of N83,700. Tyozum, of Divine School, Adeke, Makurdi, was charged with criminal conspiracy…
Mr Timothy Owoeye, Speaker, Osun House of Assembly, has described the death of former Vice-chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oyewunmi Ibidapo-Obe, as a big loss to Ijesaland and the academic community. Owoeye, in a condolence message by his Chief Press…
The Nigeria Police, on Tuesday, deployed 1,250 Special Constabulary Police, toward boosting community policing in Lagos State Command. Speaking during the passing-out ceremony in Ikeja, Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu urged the officers to operate within the guidelines that had been given…
The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) says it is saddened that some unnamed security operatives disrupted its annual Ogoni Day Celebration on Monday. MOSOP President, Mr Lazarus Tamana, told the Newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday that…
