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Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor, has again, hit hard at President Muhammadu Buhari over his seemingly inability to find solution to myriad of problems confronting the nation, saying the President and his party lack ideas and appeared confused on how best to alleviate the people’s suffering. In his words, “Unfortunately, Muhammadu Buhari cannot find solution to hunger, unemployment, depressed economy and insecurity in the country because he is bereft of the ideas. Nigerians should brace up to change the change because the right leader, the right president is yet to…

Over alleged N2.1 billion debt, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered Skye Bank Plc to take over Obat Oil and Petroleum Limited’s depot. Justice Jude Dagat made an order directing the Inspector-General of Police, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, the Lagos Commissioner of Police as well as the court’s Deputy Sheriff to assist in the enforcement of the order. Obat Oil and Petroleum’s depot at H.I.M. Oba (Dr.) F.E.O. Akinruntan Close, Beachland Estate, Apapa, Lagos, was sealed up yesterday pending liquidation of the debt. The order was…

The robbery attack on a Bank at Otun-Ekiti in Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Thursday night has left four persons, including a soon-to-wed young security guard dead. Among those killed were the Manager and cashier of Heritage Bank, security man at Unity Bank and the night guard to the town’s monarch, Oba Adedapo Popoola, Oore Otun of Moba land. Ekiti State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Alberto Adeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said that the police had deposited the bodies of the deceased at the morgue…

Chibuzor Okechukwu, 22-year old, who had earlier been detained at State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, and is now standing trial over a rape case has been arrested again for forcefully abducting and rapping another girl in Ilogbo, Ajangbadi area of Lagos. According to source, one Achumba Chima who claimed to have employed the victim named Chioma Odo as his house girl reported to the police Station at Ajangbadi on November 9, 2016 that his employee was forcefully taken on the 8th of November, 2016 and raped by Okechukwu who resides…

Air Vice Marshall Tony Omenyi (rtd) was yesterday arraigned by the EFCC, alongside his company, Huzee Nigeria Limited, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 3-count charge bordering on abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of N136.325.000.00 (one hundred and thirty six million, three hundred and twenty five thousand naira). Omenyi is being prosecuted for his alleged role in the diversion of funds meant for the purchase of arms by the military. Count 2 of the charge reads: “That…

Senator Kabiru Gaya representing Kano Central, also the Vice President, Inter-Parliamentary Union for Africa,IPU Africa, yesterday, frowned at Ghanaian government for introducing $120 residency fee for Nigerians in the country, saying the development, which he noted, was against the spirit of brotherliness in Africa, must not be allowed to stand. This came as he urged the United States President – Elect, Donald Trump to reconsider his stand on immigrants in his country as well as refugee issues. To this end, he hinted that the regional parliamentary body would immediately convene…

Oba Saheed Elegushi in conjunction with Channeldrill Resources Limited, has launched an Imperial City Promo project, which would give hard working Nigerians the chance to own a plot of land worth N42m in one of the high brow areas of Lagos State. The Imperial International Business City (IIBC), which is the first self-sustaining eco-friendly smart business city in Africa is the brainchild of Oba Saheed Elegushi and Channeldrill Resources Limited who are the joint developers of the project. The promo is expected to produce seven land winners every week till…

Kaduna Enatimi, a father of two, has been arrested by members of a local vigilante group at Igbogene community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State for allegedly stealing a pot of soup, wraps of fufu and gari, property of a local food seller. The suspect, Enatimi, aged 35, according to community sources, was nabbed at 2a.m., yesterday, while consuming the soup and fufu,claiming that hunger and the economic hardship pushed him to commit the crime. Head of the Igbogene Vigilante Group, Chief Moneysweet Asomo, while confirming the development, said: “We were…