BOLANLE BOLAWOLE: The travails of Prof. Banji Akintoye
By BOLANLE BOLAWOLE On Tuesday, November 30, 2021, Prof. Adebanji Stephen Akintoye, erstwhile chairman of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-determination (NINAS), announced his resignation both as leader and member of the organisation. Akintoye also pulled his Yoruba self-determination group, Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO), out of NINAS while announcing the formation of another umbrella organisation for southern Nigeria's (East,...
FESTUS ADEDAYO: Dowen College, cults and the beast in our children’s hearts
In the last one week in the American and Nigerian cities of Michigan and Lagos, 1983 Nobel Literature winner and British author, William Golding, was literally woken up from the dead. Golding, novelist, playwright and poet, wrote the highly celebrated novel, Lord of the Flies. If you underestimate the holy writ’s admonition that foolishness resides (is bound up) in...
Wike offers N50m, employment to physically-challenged PhD holder
Governor Nyesom Wike has honoured Dr. James Daniel, a student of the Rivers State University (RSU), living with disability, with N50 million and automatic appointment as a university lecturer for bagging a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. Wike announced the N50 million reward and automatic appointment on Saturday during the 33rd convocation of the Rivers State University in Port Harcourt. He...
5 varsity students, others in net over 5,721.92kg drugs
Five students of American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa and University of Maiduguri, Borno State are among suspects arrested for drug offences in raids operations across nine states in the last week. Two of the students: Emmanuel Thlama and Jonah Joshua were arrested with 16.750kg cannabis in the night of 30th November when operatives raided a settlement opposite Gate 4...
Anyim, Ezeife: South-East must persuade, beg others to clinch 2023 presidency
What the South-East needs in its quest for the presidency in 2023 is to persuade other regions to support their ambition. Even if it means prostrating or kneeling down or persuasion, the people of South-East must adopt this approach to clinch the presidency in 2023. This was the submission of Chukwuemeka Ezeife, a former governor of Anambra, and former Secretary to...
Driver arrested at Abuja airport for ingesting 96 pellets of Cocaine
A 44-year-old father of three, Gabriel Anthony Patrick, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 96 pellets of cocaine, which he excreted in the custody of the Agency. Gabriel was arrested on Friday, 26th November during an outward clearance of Turkish Airline at the...
Tax credit: NNPC to spend N15bn on Badagry expressway
The Agbara-Seme border section of Lagos-Badagry expressway project will receive N15 billion of NNPC tax credit fund, Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Olukayode Popoola, has said. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday that the intervention funding would fast track the ongoing reconstruction of the road. The 46 km highway was awarded to CGC Construction...
70m Nigerian users of mobile phones don’t have bank accounts – eTranzact
About 70 million active mobile line owners in Nigeria do not have bank accounts, the Chief Executive Officer of eTranzact International Plc., Mr. Niyi Toluwalope, has said. Toluwalope made the disclosure at the Capital Market Correspondents Association of Nigerian (CAMCAN) 2021 Annual Workshop held on Saturday in Lagos. The eTranzact boss said that 150 million of Nigeria’s 200 million population owned...
COVID-19: UK bans flights from Nigeria over Omicron variant
Effective from Monday December 6, flights from Nigeria to the United Kingdom are not welcome. Nigeria has been added to the red list of countries from where people arriving must quarantine in a hotel for 10 days. The Federal Government had on Wednesday confirmed three cases of the Omicron variant. They were linked to travellers from South Africa. UK Health Secretary Sajid...
CAN: We paid bandits ransom to release 61 Baptist Church members
Sixty-one worshippers of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau in Kaduna State along with nine other victims of abduction have regained their freedom from captive. The Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State Chapter, Rev. Joseph John Hayab, who disclosed this in an interview on Saturday, said the ransom was paid to bandits before the worshippers were released. Hayab said Nigerians should...
