New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world’s toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long. People aged 14 and under in 2027 will never be allowed to purchase cigarettesContinue Reading
Three students accused of having a hand in the death of Sylvester Oromoni, a student of Dowen College, Lekki Lagos were on Monday invited by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Maroko Police Station and later taken to the SCID for questioning over the 12-year-old’s death. The students, who wereContinue Reading
The Redeemed Christian Church of God, the City of David Parish has opened an online dating platform for mature singles. This is coming after the pastor overseeing the parish, Idowu Iluyomade, disclosed at a forum that the platform would be launched. Pastor Iluyomade while speaking at the forum called on singleContinue Reading
Operatives of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arrested 60 suspected internet fraudsters during an awards ceremony in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The commission, in a statement, said the event tagged “Peer Youths Awards”, was organised to reward high-level internet fraudsters. Items recovered from the suspectsContinue Reading
Kogi State government has described as “mischievous, false and politically motivated” a statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that it returned N19.3 billion bailout funds allegedly “hidden” by the state to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The government gave EFCC a 48-hour ultimatum to retract theContinue Reading
The Lagos judicial panel has confirmed that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu invited the soldiers who massacred unarmed and peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate. The panel set up by the Lagos government to probe last year’s October 20 tollgate massacre specifically stated that Mr Sanwo-Olu invited the soldiers who shotContinue Reading
Senators from Niger Delta on Wednesday kicked against proposed legislation seeking to make Bauchi, Lagos and Ogun oil-producing states. The debate ensued as the Senate considered a bill seeking to amend the Niger Delta Development Commission Act to include Lagos, Ogun, Bauchi and others that had attained the status ofContinue Reading
Prof. Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has been declared winner of the Anambra Governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Soludo is not a new kid off the block, he is a well-known national figure, who has played prominent roles in national development. BelowContinue Reading
The Electoral umpire in the country, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State inconclusive. This decision reached by INEC was followed by the suspension of collation of results pending the conduct of the election in Ihiala Local Government Area. The electoral body’s ReturningContinue Reading
Nine survivors have been reported as frantic families search rubble for loved ones The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise building in an upmarket area of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos has risen to 36, emergency services said on Thursday. The 21-storey building, on a construction site in theContinue Reading
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