President Bola Tinubu will on Wednesday, 12 June, 2024 address the Nigerians in a nationwide broadcast as part of the Democracy Day celebration. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, made this disclosure in a statement issued on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024. Ngelale l, who said Tinubu will address Nigerians at 7am on Wednesday, 12 June 2024, enjoined television, radio, and other electronic media outlets to plug into the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) for the broadcast.
Author: Khadijah Olowode
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command, on Monday, 10 June, 2024, foiled a suicide attempt by an American citizen on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. The state police command made this disclosure in a stament shared on X.com on Monday, 10 June, 2024 According to the statement, the American, whose name has not been disclosed, was driven to the bridge by his baby mama at approximately 1:23 p.m. The statement revealed that the American, who is in his early 30s, had directed his baby mama to park her vehicle while he walked to a spot on the bridge, intending…
Famous singer, Ayra Starr, has made history by becoming the first Nigerian female artist to grace the U.S. Billboard 200 Album chart. The singer achieved the feat with her sophomore album, ‘The Year I Turned 21’ which debuted at No. 195 on Monday, 10 June, 2024 “Debuts on this week’s #Billboard200: No. 2, @ATEEZofficial Golden Hour : Part.1 (EP) No. 5, @ShaboozeysJeans Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going No. 17, @themarias Submarine No. 102, @crowdermusic The Exile No. 169, @carinleonofi Boca Chueca, Vol. 1 No. 195, @ayrastarr The Year I Turned 21,” Billboard charts tweeted. The album is also…
A district court in Denmark has sentenced a man to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention after stabbing his pregnant girlfiend to death in 2016. The court, which made the announcement through a statement it issued out to media houses, said the now 30-year-old man is said to have stabbed the woman 11 times with a knife in a park near Copenhagen and then cut off a piece of her nose. The man denied committing the crime and his defence lawyer said that he would appeal against the judgment of the court. It was gathered that the murder weapon has still not been found…
An Area Court in Jos , Plateau State presided over by Justice Shawomi Bokkos on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 sentenced two bus conductors named Isah Abubakar and Abdulrazak Salihu, to three months imprisonment each for fighting in public and constituting a nuisance. Justice Bokkos sentenced the duo after they pleaded guilty to the offence. The judge, however, gave the convicts an option of N 10,000 fine each or three months imprisonment for disturbing the peace of the public. Earlier, the police prosecutor, Insp Monday Dabit, told the court that information was received at the Laranto police station that the convicts…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Director of Currency Operations, Ahmed Umar, has told a Federal Capital Territory(FCT) High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja how the immediate past governor, Godwin Emefiele, printed his own design of the naira. Umar, who made this disclosure while giving evidence before the court, said the features in the design approved by former President Muhammadu Buhari was different from the one Emefiele ordered to be printed. “The design approved by the President had a QR code, which the currency in circulation does not. The positioning of the portrait was on the…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has signed into law the Executive Bill establishing the Oyo State Mobilisation Agency for Socio-Economic Development (OYMASED), noting that his administration will continue to prioritise economic development in order to solve major challenges in the state. While signing the Bill passed by the House of Assembly into Law at the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024, Governor Makinde also announced the appointment of a former Commissioner for Education in the state, Dr Morohunkola Thomas, who is his Special Adviser on Socio-Economic Development, as the Director General of the agency. According to…
Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) Technical Adviser, Gbenga Ogunbote, believed his team would have avoided defeat to Rivers United, had his boys converted the chances they had in the encounter. He made this submission while speaking with the media after the Oluyole Warriors lost 0-1 to Rivers United in a matchday 35 encounter played at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium. A scrappy goal, six minutes into the second half, was enough to earn the homers all points, but Oracle, as the 3SC gaffer is fondly called, lamented the shyness of his lads in front of goal. “This is a game we…
Malawian government has confirmed that a military aircraft carrying the country’s vice president Saulos Chilima has been reported missing after it failed to make a landing in the early hours of Monday 10 June, 2024. “All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far,” the government said in a statement issued on Monday, 10 June, 2024. The plane, which took off just after 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), was carrying 51-year-old Chilima and nine others. President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national forces to conduct an…
Regional economic integration, food production and regional security are the main items that top the agenda at the meeting of the South-West Governors’ Forum held in Lagos on Monday. At the meeting held behind closed doors in Alausa, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the host, was unanimously elected to lead the Forum as chairman. Sanwo-Olu stepped into the position, following the vacancy occasioned by the death of the former Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, who chaired the regional caucus. Governors Seyi Makinde, Oyo; Dapo Abiodun, Ogun; Lucky Aiyedatiwa, Ondo; Ademola Adeleke, Osun; Biodun Oyebanji, Ekiti; and Sanwo-Olu, Lagos; were…