The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has urged the Supreme Court to compel Osun State Government to refund seven months’ local government allocations to the Minister of Finance. The request was contained in a response filed through Fagbemi’s counsel, Chief Akin Olujimi SAN, to a suit instituted by the government via its attorney general. Osun had sued the AGF as the sole defendant, alleging that the Federal Government failed to release the statutory allocation due to its 30 local government councils for March 2025. In the suit marked SC/CV/379/2025, the state government claimed that…
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The Ogun State Police Command on Saturday launched an intensive investigation into the brutal killing of a 16-year-old boy, Lawal Wahab, whose mutilated body was discovered along the Old Express Road in Igbile-Ijebu. Spokesperson of the Ogun State Police command, Omolola Odutola, disclosed this to newsmen in a statement in Abeokuta, the state capital. She said, Wahab, who had been living with his grandmother, was reported missing by his father, Mr. Lawal Olumide, earlier this month. She added that the tragic discovery was made on July 23, 2025, when residents alerted authorities to a decomposed body in the area. According…
Tanzanian music star Juma Jux Nkambala and Nigerian actress Iyabo Ojo’s daughter, Priscilla Ojo,are expecting their first child together. The couple made the announcement on Instagram on Thursday, sharing a maternity photoshoot featuring Priscilla’s growing baby bump. The post was captioned simply: “Mum & Dad.” The couple tied the knot in a series of elaborate ceremonies across Nigeria and Tanzania. The festivities began with a traditional Yoruba wedding in Lagos on April 17, followed by a white wedding on April 19. Prior to these, they held a Nikkah and civil wedding in Tanzania in February. The grand finale of their…
Super Falcons coach, Justine Madugu, has insisted that Nigeria’s focus as the nine-time African champions face hosts Morocco in the final of the 13th Women Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday is to win the trophy for the 10th time. The Super Falcons, one of only seven teams to have played at every single edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup finals since the competition was launched in 1991, saw off the challenge of gutsy Cup-holders Banyana Banyana of South Africa in Tuesday’s second semi final, thanks to an eye-widening cross-cum-floater goal by defender Michelle Alozie in added time. Speaking…
The Chairman of the Forum of State Chairmen of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Femi Olaniyi Ferrari, has dissociated his members from what he called fake meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), in Abuja Friday, accusing the former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, of masterminding the purported meeting. Noting that the meeting took place without the knowledge of the chairmen’s forum or the summons of the SDP’s National Working Committee (NWC), he accused El-Rufai of plotting to destabilize the party and stressed that members of the forum, who attended the meeting, were misled and lured to the…
The Presidency has dismissed claims by the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, that the North has been neglected under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The presidency also stated that several critical projects and programmes are currently underway in the region. Kwankwaso, during a stakeholders’ dialogue on the 2025 constitutional amendment in Kano on Thursday, warned that national resources are increasingly tilted towards the southern region, resulting in deepening poverty and insecurity across the North. He lamented the deplorable condition of federal roads in the northern states, recounting how a cancelled flight forced him to…
Oleksandr Usyk has been ordered by the WBO to face Joseph Parker in a mandatory heavyweight title defence. The Ukrainian was crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion on Saturday after beating Daniel Dubois in a fifth-round stoppage at Wembley Stadium. The victory, sealed when he left the Briton on the canvas with a left-handed punch, secured a 24th professional win for the undefeated 38-year-old, who won back his IBF belt and added it to WBA, WBC and WBO titles. After becoming undisputed world heavyweight champion for a second time, Usyk mentioned Parker as a possible future opponent. On Thursday, a letter…
No fewer than 50 Nigerians were arrested on Thursday by the Ghana Immigration Service for alleged involvement in cyberfraud and human trafficking. The suspects and the landlord of the property where the arrests took place were apprehended during a coordinated security operation at McCarthy Hills in the Ga South Municipality of Accra. Information gathered from local Ghanaian media and a statement by the GIS stated that the raid followed intelligence reports about foreign nationals unlawfully residing in the area, many of whom were allegedly trafficked into the country and forced into online criminal activities. Confirming the operation, the Head of…
The Federal Government, in collaboration with the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES) and other stakeholders, have adopted climate-smart technologies to improve pasture management and enhance national food security. The move is part of a broader strategy to modernise the livestock sector and promote sustainable practices amid growing environmental and resource challenges.Best restaurants near me The Minister of Livestock Development,Mr. Idi Maiha made the disclosure during a stakeholders’ workshop themed, “Technologies for Sustainable Pasture Production and Management in Nigeria,” in Abuja. Maiha who was represented by his Special Assistant on Livestock Entrepreneurship, Mr. Ishaq Bello, described the initiative as…
President Bola Tinubu, has said Nigeria’s economy is now stable after two years of wallowing in stormy waters. Speaking at the 14th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Banquet Hall of State House, Abuja, Tinubu told governors of his party that Nigerians were still complaining about lack of development at the grassroots, and urged them to do more. The president, who stressed the need for increased community engagement and greater responsiveness to citizens’ concerns, described the opposition parties as a coalition of confusion, just as he lauded former National Chairman of the…