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Prof Wole Soyinka has said that the Muhammadu Buhari administration has attained an “unprecedented level of paranoia” following the charges of treason filed against the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore. In a statement on Saturday, Soyinka said the nation had failed to learn from past experiences. He said, “This is utterly depressing news. So, the Sowore affair has moved beyond harassment and taken on a sinister direction. Outside the country where I happened to be engaged at the moment, I can testify that the immediate reaction around me was to…

The eldest son of late Mrs Olanike Ogunleye, Segun Ogunleye, said on Saturday that the death of his mother and two siblings – Funmilayo and Wonderful – was beyond eating yam flour (amala). Segun, 33, said he had part of the same yam flour at his Ikole Ekiti residence, which he eats. “It is only God that knows the cause of the incident. It is beyond my imagination. It is believed that it is a spiritual attack,” he said. Segun said amala came into the picture when people asked of the last…

Omoyele Sowore, detained activist and convener of the RevolutionNow Protest, has been slammed with a seven-count money laundering and conspiracy charges by the Federal Government, before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. Equally cited as a defendant in the charge marked FHC/ ABJ/CR/235/2019, is one Olawale Adebayo Bakare (aka Mandate). In the statement of offence that was attached to count-one of the charge, FG alleged that the defendants committed conspiracy to commit treasonable felony, contrary to section 516 of the criminal Code Act Cap C38 Laws of the…

Biodun Fatoyinbo, the Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, has reacted to the suit accusing him of raping Busola, wife of inspirational singer, Timi Dakolo. In his preliminary objection he filed against the suit on September 20, 2019, Fatoyinbo told the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja where the suit was instituted that the prayers contained in the case should not be granted. Apart from seeking the dismissal of Busola’s suit, Fatoyinbo asked the court to award the cost of N50m against her and her solicitor…

THE Federal Government on Friday, expressed dissatisfaction over the United Nations Rapporteur Report of violence in Nigeria, describing the report as disappointing.  The Federal Government said some of the displaced people in the country was as a result of communal and ethnic crisis. Expressing disappointment on the report, the Federal Government through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu said that the report did not take into consideration the ethnic clashes. According to him, “We have read press reports of the UN rapporteur…

An Ijebu -Ode based business man in Ogun state, south west Nigeria, Afolorunsho Yinusa, has dragged Union Homes Savings and loan before a Lagos high court over the failure of the finance house to pay him N757,499,795.57 being the outstanding balance of his fixed deposit with the mortgage banking institution. Meanwhile the Claimant has also filed a winding up petition against the Union Home loans and saving Plc before a Federal high court in Lagos urging the court to wind up the company over the inability of the company to…

Criticism has trailed the invitation of a chieftain of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, to an event at the University of Lagos, Akoka, on the social media. Many Nigerians on Twitter criticised the decision to invite MC Oluomo to the event, saying it would pass the wrong message to students of the institution. The event, which was organised by the National Association of Geography Students, UNILAG chapter, held on Tuesday. A snapshot of the event’s banner was posted on Twitter by a user. The user…