Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has declared Friday, June 27, 2025, as a public holiday across the state in commemoration of Hijrah 1447AH. This announcement was contained in statement issued by the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Mr. Rasheed Aderibigbe. While extending warm greetings to the Muslim faithful across the
.66,085 Arrested; 11.1m Kg Drugs Seized; 12,201 Convicted; 26,393 Rehabilitated in 53 Months – Marwa President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that the fight against the scourge of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in Nigeria must be embraced by all as a national movement rather than one for governments
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has renamed The Polytechnic Ibadan after Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo. Olunloyo who was a former governor of the old Oyo State was the pioneer reactor of the institution.. Governor Makinde made the announcement on Thursday during an interdenominational commendation service for the late former
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has again hiked the pump price of petrol, raising it to ₦925 per litre at its retail stations in Lagos. This marks the second increment in less than a week. Two days ago, the company raised the price to N₦915 per litre. At
Nigerian insurance industry has recorded a gross written premium of N1.562 trillion in the 2024 financial year. Mr Kunle Ahmed, Chairman, Nigerian Insurers Association, disclosed this during the 54th Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) on Thursday in Lagos. Ahmed said that this represented a 56 per
Ogun and four other states have bagged Awards of Excellence by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM).The awards were bestowed on the States at a dinner in honour of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation and Heads of Service of the 36 states and the FCT,
Foremost engineering construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC has clinched the Quality Assured Construction Company of the Year Award. At last weekend’s 11th edition of the Nigeria Transport Lecture and Awards event in Lagos, the Editor-in-Chief of Transport Day Newspaper, organisers of the event, Frank Kintum described Julius Berger as
A state high court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sentenced Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, to death by hanging for killing Salome Adaidu, a National Youth Service Corps member. Justice Simon Aboki pronounced the judgment after founding Ajayi guilty of killing and dismembering Adaidu. He had been charged with one count charge of
In a tragic event yesterday, suspected kidnappers took the lives of a father, his son, and two other people in Kwara state. Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, the spokesperson for the Kwara State Police Command, shared that this heartbreaking incident happened in the early hours in the Patigi Local Government Area of the
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that 17 soldiers were killed during a deadly terrorist ambush on a military base in Bangi, located in the Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State. The confirmation comes a day after reports broke out online about the surprise attack, which reportedly claimed the lives