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The coronavirus epidemic in Iran has cost 26 lives, the health ministry announced Thursday, with a vice president becoming the latest top official to be infected as the spread appeared to accelerate. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a news conference that the tally of infections had risen to 245 with 106 more cases confirmed, the highest number for a ... Read More »

Justice Yetunde Adesanya of an Ikeja High Court, on Thursday, struck out a suit filed by former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos, seeking to stop his probe by the state Assembly over the purchase of 820 buses for Bus Reform Project. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adesanya ruled that the ad-hoc committee set up to investigate Ambode was ... Read More »

The Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja, on Thursday, ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had no candidate in the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state. Justice John Olorunfemi of the High Court 4, in a ruling declared that the party primary conducted on the 3rd September 2019, which produced Engr. Musa Wada as the PDP ... Read More »

The residence of Bayelsa State are anxiously waiting for the outcome of the review of the Supreme Court’s judgement that sacked Chief David Lyon and Senator Degi Erimienyo as Governor-Elect and Deputy Governor-Elect, investigations have revealed. The review, which is scheduled to begin on Wednesday at the apex court, was the single most important discussion among residents including non-politicians such ... Read More »

The federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, convicted a former National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olisah Metuh of count one among seven others instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Also convicted alongside Metuh is his firm, Destra Investments Limited. Justice Okon Abang in his judgment ruled that a former ... Read More »

The Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday, quizzed the current Minority Leader and former speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Isiyaku Ali Danja for alleged abuse of office and misappropriation of funds meant for constituency projects.   The  Lawmaker’s ordeal started after the Commission received a petition that monies meant for payment of ... Read More »

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Felicia Adikwu, a Jukun by tribe, is right now in a dilemma. She is pregnant for her children’s extramural studies teacher, popularly called “lesson teacher” in Nigeria and, she doesn’t know what to do about it. She is full of regret for her ill-advised action that is now threatening to tear her marriage apart. The young woman who holds a ... Read More »

In a bid to carry out extensive works on the Obawole Bridge in Ifako-Ijaiye Council Area of Lagos State, to avert imminent collapse of the infrastructure, the chairman, Apostle Oloruntoba Oke and a team of Engineers from the state Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, led by Engr. Kelani, today, February 21,2020, inspected the bridge with a view to ensuring it’s ... Read More »

The marriage between Ajibola and Michael Ponnle may be heading for the rocks, and as you are reading this, there have been very rife trajectories trailing the propriety or otherwise of Lagos State Commissioner for Establishment, Training, and Pensions, Mrs. Ajibola Ponnle, in her 22-year visibly crashing marriage, a development that has been causing some unpleasantness to the principal character, ... Read More »