The Review Proper Foregrounding In Back to Life, Omololu Kassim is back to the energy sapping but fulfilling business of writing on a grander height because the author of Back to Life was in the league of the best crop of reporters with optimal visibility prior to the June 12-induced shutdown of the Concord titles. However, with the indulgence of this august audience, I dare say so much water had passed on…In this 98-page volume, Kassim has combined the dexterity of a nosey and crafty reporter with the panache and precision of a medical sociologist to make the world better…
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The former Commissioner of Science and Technology in Niger State, Abubakar Katcha has raised an alarm over the discovery of a radioactive battery hidden inside his wife’s brazziers. Katcha said the brazziers imprinted “made in China” was bought from the Kure Market in Minna and caused his wife to develop symptoms that were feared to be cancer. The ex-Commissioner who made this known further disclosed that while his wife battled with the treatment of the ailment on her breast for several months, their newborn baby surprisingly has refused to suck from her breast milk. According to Katcha, “What happened to…
The Youth Alliance for Good Governance (YAGG) has commended the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the comprehensive success recorded during the recently concluded primary elections for the coming council elections in the state. The YAGG is a group within the APC in Lagos State. The primary elections, conducted on Saturday, 10 May, 2025 to Chairmanship and Councillorship candidates for the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) was generally regarded as resounding success by majority of party members. YAGG, in a press statement signed by Adeola Otapo and Salisu Musa, Chairperson and…
Edo State government on Thursday, 22 May, 2025 said it has uncovered a brothel inside a primary school in Esan West Local Government Area of the state. The government said it has also sealed the brothel. The development was disclosed at a press briefing in Benin City by State Coordinator for the Protection of Government Property (PGP), Eugene Okolosie. Okolosie also disclosed that over 2,000 plots of land encroached upon have also been recovered from land grabbers in the state. According to him, over 150,000 houses in the state were built on government lands. “The community came to inform us…
Four Nigerian stowaways were rescued on the Atlantic Ocean after being thrown overboard by the crew of a foreign vessel. The young men, seeking to escape Nigeria’s economic challenges, had boarded the ship in secret with hopes of reaching foreign shores. The crew of the vessel, upon discovering the stowaways, allegedly responded with violence, casting the men into the open sea. The situation could have ended in tragedy were it not for the swift intervention of a maritime logistics company owned by a France-based Ekiti-born business mogul, Mr Harrison Niyi Alonge. The Public Relations Officer of the firm, Olawale Ezekiel,…
The new bread making waves in the public is City Tasty Bread, reports thegazellenews.com When this medium visited the bakery of the wave-making loaf on Friday, 16 May, 2025, we discovered why the bread has suddenly the talk of the town in recent years. Thegazellenews.com discovered that the unique selling points of the bread: standard, prompt delivery to customers and good customers’ relations make its productions the sought after loaf not only among distributors but also consumers. “Our unique selling points are: the quality and standard of our products, our prompt delivery and good customers relations,” Kayode Kolade, Managing Director…
Abdulmajeed Agboola, a staff member of Access Bank Plc has narrated how the bank’s former employee, Olajide Ogunmoroti, allegedly accessed the bank’s server through a private laptop, resulting in a system glitch on customers account that led to a N5 billion fraud. Agboola was presented before before Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, 16 May, 2025, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as its first prosecution witness in the alleged N5,726,994,110.23 fraud case against the bank’s former employees: Olajide Ogunmoroti, Michael Igbomina, David Onyeike, and Moses Iruolaje. In EFCC filings,…
The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abuja, has successfully performed its first living-donor kidney transplant. Living-donor kidney transplant usually involves a donated kidney from someone you know. It might be a family member, friend or co-worker. The medical center’s management disclosed this in a statement on Friday, 16 May, 2025. According to the statement, the surgery which was conducted on Tuesday, 6 May, 2025, was performed on a 69 year old male Nigerian, who suffered from end-stage renal disease, a condition where the kidneys lose the ability to function. However, a healthy donor, aged 39 and a close relative of the…
Tensions that appear to have been on the rise at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have reached a boiling point as aggrieved staff escalate frustrations over long-lasting grievances, rooted in what employees describe as neglect, broken welfare promises, and an air of impunity among top officials. Amidst all of this, NIMASA staff claim to have unearthed a clandestine attempt by the Director-General, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, with active connivance of the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola, to concession the Agency to cronies for a paltry sum. This concession scandal which allegedly tilted towards diverting…
In a bold step towards revolutionizing the nation’s procurement system, the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) officially launched the Nigeria Procurement Certification Portal on Tuesday at the UBEC Digital Hub in Kado Kuchi, Abuja. The event, which marks a new chapter in capacity building for procurement professionals across both public and private sectors, was presided over by the Director-General of the BPP, Dr. Adebowale A. Adedokun, MCIPS, ACFE. In his address, Dr. Adedokun emphasized that the new initiative seeks to consolidate past efforts to create a more efficient and effective procurement regime in Nigeria. “Today marks the beginning of consolidating…