No fewer than 15 shops were on Saturday ransacked, looted and razed at Agbeni Ologede market, Ibadan on Saturday by suspected hoodlums. Goods worth tens of millions were both stolen and destroyed while the incident lasted. According to unconfirmed sources, the shops were razed to cover up the lootings perpetrated by the yet-to-be-identified hoodlums. The sources noted that the hoodlums ... Read More »

Former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to have defeated Donald Trump and will become the 46th president of the United States, capping a dramatic election that saw the president prematurely declare victory after the Democratic nominee spent months declaring him unfit for office. Mr Biden, now declared as the president-elect after his third White House bid, secured the presidency ... Read More »

Democrat Joe Biden has taken the lead in key battleground state Pennsylvania, where a victory for the former vice president would push him past the threshold of electoral votes needed to win the White House, US media said Thursday. More ballots are yet to be counted, but shortly before 1400 GMT, CNN and The New York Times reported that Biden ... Read More »

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters is showing the footage captured by the surveillance camera at the Lekki toll gate on October 20. The Managing Director of LCC, Abayomi Omomuwa, had submitted the video footage on Tuesday. Soldiers have been accused of shooting at #EndSARS protesters, injuring and ... Read More »

Democrat Joe Biden pulled ahead Friday in the crucial battleground state of Georgia, US media said, with votes still left to count. The former vice president ate away at President Donald Trump’s initial lead in the southern state and is now ahead by 917 votes, CNN and Fox News reported. Trump won Georgia by five percentage points in 2016. Read More »

A win for former United States (U.S.) Vice President Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden will attract $700 billion investments to Nigeria and other emerging markets, Renaissance Capital (RenCap) analysts have predicted. RenCap Chief Economist Charles Robertson said a Biden victory will, in the long run, shift trillions of dollars to Nigeria and other emerging markets. In a report to ... Read More »

Digital transformation leader, Globacom, has rolled out data gifts, including a one-off 10GB free data, for its subscribers on 3G SIMs to encourage them to upgrade to 4G SIMs to experience its faster 4G LTE network. Globacom launched its 4G LTE network nationwide in October 2016 and has since consolidated the reach, taking the network to more smaller cities and ... Read More »

Students of Ogun State Institute of Technology (OGITECH), Igbesa have shut down the institution over the death of a student in the institution’s clinic. An ND I Computer Engineering student, Malik Omoty, died in the school clinic where he was rushed to following a motorcycle accident on Monday. It was gathered the accident occured in front of the institution owing ... Read More »

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has admitted the error in Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki’s University of Ibadan (UI) certificate. Blamed the photocopying machine for the error. The error disqualified Obaseki from seeking a second term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). A petition by the Action Democratic Party (ADP) and its governorship candidate, Iboi Emmanuel, accused Obaseki ... Read More »

The Lekki Concession Company, operators of the Lekki toll gate, has submitted video footage recorded by its surveillance camera on the night of October 20, 2020, when soldiers allegedly opened fire on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate. The Managing Director of LCC, Abayomi Omomuwa, submitted the video footage on Tuesday to the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up ... Read More »