•Real Madrid’s defender Antonio Rudiger reacts following a missed chance Key quotes yesterday in the Champions League quarter-finals second legs: Bayern Munich (GER) 1 (Kimmich 63) Arsenal (ENG) 0 — Bayern Munich win 3-2 on aggregate “An unbelievable win. It’s been a tough season for us. We’ve had to fight and grind it out at […]...
•IBEDC and UCH Members of staff and patients at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan, Oyo State, are in a jubilant mood after the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) reconnected the facility. The premier hospital was disconnected three weeks ago owing to the non-payment of electricity bill, plunging UCH into darkness, re...
•Styrofoam The Oyo State Government today banned the use of styrofoam for food services, storage, and other related purposes. The State House of Assembly had, on Thursday, February 8, 2024, urged the state government to ban the use of styrofoam for food purposes in the state, reports The PUNCH. It, therefore, inaugurated the Food Safety [&hell...
•Tinubu and Edu Two months after the suspension of Dr. Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have left Nigerians in the dark on the next line of action. Findings by our correspondent at the weekend revealed that the EFCC, [&h...
•Troops The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Gwabin Musa has vowed that the military will go after persons advocating coup d’ ‘etat in the country. Describing such individuals as enemies of Nigeria, Musa said the law would surely catch up with them, reports The Nation. Musa insisted that the Armed Forces was on top […]
•Gani Adams The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has sought the permission of governors in the South-West to go after the killers of three Yoruba monarchs. Adams, in an open letter to the Governor of Ekiti State, Abiodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said he had the capacity to deal with those he called […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is yet to take delivery of an aircraft 10 years after paying a deposit of N1,054,222,576.00 to an Israeli company, the Auditor General for the Federation (OAuGF) has said. The payment was made in 2010, but no aircraft was supplied as of March 2020, according to an audit report […]
•Judges Forty days after 11 Justices were screened and confirmed by the Senate following their nomination for promotion to the Supreme Court, the justices are yet to be sworn in. Their nomination was made to avoid violating the provision of the Constitution that stipulates 21 justices for the apex court, reports The Guardian. Before the [&hell...
Bureau De Change operators (BDCs) in Abuja got a rude shock yesterday as security operatives swooped on them in a sting operation designed to arrest the free fall of the naira, believed to be fuelled by the antics of currency speculators. The security agencies, working in cahoots with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), quizzed […]