Author: Kwara Reporters

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Osun Command successfully prevented a robbery attack on the Iwo-Ibadan road and retrieved a stolen vehicle from robbers in the Onibu-Eja community.The NSCDC boss, Mr Michael Adaralewa, revealed this information in a statement by the Assistant Superintendent of Corps, Public Relations Officer, Osun state Command, Kehinde Adeleke on Sunday.According to Adaralewa, at 3:25 a.m., a four-man gang of armed robbers invaded a house in the Onibu-Eja community, stealing a vehicle at gunpoint from a family.“Immediately after the gang fled, community members promptly alerted the NSCDC state command for assistance.“The officers of the command,…

The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), popularly known as the Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO), has suspended the impounding of vehicles and the issuance of fines in Abuja following a recent court ruling that questioned the legality of its enforcement practices.This suspension comes in the wake of a 2 October judgment by the Federal High Court in Abuja, which found that the VIO lacked the authority to stop vehicles or impose penalties on motorists.In a phone interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday, the acting spokesperson of the DRTS, Funmi Oguntala, confirmed that the agency has appealed the judgment, with a…

Umar Namadi, governor of Jigawa, has suspended Bashir Ado, his special adviser on salary and pensions, over a “premature statement” on implementation of the N70,000 new minimum wage.Bala Ibrahim, secretary to the state government, disclosed this on Saturday in a statement.Ibrahim said the government “viewed with serious concern, a statement circulating in various sections of the media alleging that the governor has approved N70,000 as new minimum wage for workers in the state”.“This sounds embarrassing and pre-mature as the committee headed by Head of the State Civil Service, set up by the Government to advise on the appropriate wage is…

The Enugu State Government on Sunday explained its decision to impose tax on corpses in mortuaries across the state.The government said the move was not spurred by a revenue generation drive.The Executive Chairman of Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS), Mr Emmanuel Nnamani, said this while reacting to the Mortuary Tax circular addressed to all the morticians.According to him, the tax was inline within the state Mortuary Tax Law which had existed for years adding that it was not new to the state.Nnamani clarified that the mortuary tax was N40 daily only as against N40,000.“It is an indirect tax paid…

Freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho, has submitted a petition to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, to consider the creation of a Yoruba nation.Igboho was said to have submitted the petition on behalf of Prof. Adebanji Akintoye, the leader of the Yoruba Nation movement.The movement is seeking the immediate intervention of the UK Prime Minister and his government in their agitation to set up a country that will be predominantly owned by indigenous Yoruba people.This was disclosed by Igboho’s spokesman, Koiki, via his X page on Monday.He wrote: “At exactly 14:00 hrs Dr. Chief Sunday Igboho…

Tragedy struck in the Oshodi area of Lagos on Saturday when a train crushed a 50-year-old man identified simply as Emmanuel to death.It was gathered that the incident happened near Arena Shopping Mall in Oshodi.The deceased’s sister, whose name is not known yet, informed the police that she received a phone call around 9 am, alerting her that her older brother had been fatally struck by the moving train.The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement, confirmed that the Mosafejo Division of the command was notified of the incident around 1:33 pm. The police immediately…

The United States government has piled more charges on the earlier $20 million bank fraud case against Allen Onyema, the CEO of Air Peace, as the Nigerian businessman continues to elude trial in an American court in the last five years.Although Mr Onyema, founder of the major Nigerian airline, has denied wrongdoing, he has been wanted in the US over the bank fraud charges pending against him and a co-defendant at the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, in Atlanta since 2019.“On 8 October 2024, they were both charged in a superseding indictment alleging an additional count of…

Some suspected gunmen, Saturday afternoon, killed a councilorship candidate, Adeyinka Adeleke, in the Jide Jones area of Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State.The victim was said to be the All Progressives Congress Councillorship candidate for Abeokuta South Local Government Ward 15 in the forthcoming November 16 Local Government elections.It was gathered that the assailants stormed the area in a tinted car while shooting sporadically.Our correspondent learnt from a source privy to the incident that the gunmen attacked Adeleke, shot at him and left him in the pool of his blood.A video of the incident which surfaced online showed…

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, has revealed the reasons the organized labour accepted the N70,000 minimum wage during the national minimum wage talks at the President Villa, Abuja.Ajaero, while fielding questions during the Morning Show programme on Arise television on Friday, explained that during the meeting on the new Minimum wage with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, the organised labour turned down the offer of an increase in the price of petroleum to accept N70,000 as the new minimum wage.He equally revealed that after the organized labour had agreed with the president on the…

Dangote Group is looking to start production at its two Nigerian oil assets in the fourth quarter of 2024, after enduring months of crude supply woes, a report by S&P Global Commodity Insights has said.The report quoting company sources said Dangote is currently seeking a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel with a capacity of 650,000 barrels of crude.The company holds an 85% stake in West African E&P Venture, which in turn has a 45% working interest in the two blocks, alongside the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s 55%.Alhaji Aliko Dangote with the Prime Minister of Grenada Mr Mitchell…