Amidst the call for justice for the slain student of Dowen College, a mother shares her experience on how her daughter almost died at the same school. According to a narration by Lizzy Kalu on Instagram, her last daughter who was a student of the said school fell sick and was admitted for weeks at the school’s sickbay. Mrs Kalu added that the school made no effort to contact her family until one of her children in the school put the call through. Woman narrates how her daughter almost died at Dowen College Read her narration below… “All my children…
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Operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) headed by DCP Tunji Disu have arrested four suspected members of a trans-boarder robbery gang who specialized in snatching vehicles from Nigeria and taking them to other West African countries where they are sold at give away prices. Preliminary investigation revealed that the gang also smuggled weapons from neighboring West African countries into Nigeria. Recovered from them were two Ak 47 rifles, five cut-to-size guns, 10 live cartridges, one magazine and two foreign plate numbers which they used to change those of stolen vehicles. The suspects: Adebabatunde Okunola, 31; Ismaila Suraju, 27;…
Buruji Kashamu family has absolved Michael Adewale Kashamu of involvement in the murder of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old pupil of Dowen College. Sylvester died a few days ago after he was allegedly attacked by “some senior colleagues” for refusing to join a cult group. He was said to have mentioned the late lawmaker’s son alongside four other students before he died. In a statement issued by one Mutairu Kashamu, the family confirmed that Michael Kashamu is indeed the son of the late Senator Buruji Kashamu. However, the family noted that despite the late Sylvester’s claims, the ongoing cyber-bullying and name-calling…
Pending the hearing of the substantive suit filed by Alhaji Hassan Sherif, Bauchi State High Court has ordered Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to administer the oath of office on the Hon Babayo Misau-led executive members of the party in the state. The ruling was delivered on Friday. Alhaji Sherif, a loyalist of Nigeria Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, approached the Bauchi High Court to stop the inauguration of the executive council members. The recent development is the height of the crisis that trailed the conduct of the APC…
In the last one week in the American and Nigerian cities of Michigan and Lagos, 1983 Nobel Literature winner and British author, William Golding, was literally woken up from the dead. Golding, novelist, playwright and poet, wrote the highly celebrated novel, Lord of the Flies. If you underestimate the holy writ’s admonition that foolishness resides (is bound up) in the heart of a child, then you need to read this Golding’s 1954 debut novel. Woven round myriad thematic concerns, chief of which was the innate bestiality in man, Lord of the Flies, as a name, derived its etymology from the…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Sunday sets up a three-man Committee to resolve the lingering crisis in the State chapter of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ). The NUJ said, ‘two wrongs can never make a right” and there is the need “to immediately put the outcome of the recent leadership tussle of NAWOJ behind us as one big family.” To this end, after wide consultations, the Chairman, Comrade Ademola Babalola has put in place three veteran leaders of NUJ to midwife a truce. They are the State Chairman, League of Veteran Journalists, Pa Banji Ogundele; Alhaji…
Alhaji Bisi Olopoeniyan is a grassroots politician in Oyo State and one of the pillars of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who was key in Governor Seyi Makinde’s emergence as governor in 2019. Unfortunately, they both fell apart just after the governor assumed office. He spoke to SEYE OLUMIDE (Southwest Bureau Chief of The Guardian Newspaper) on the party’s internal crisis and the chances of the incumbent getting a second term in 2023, among other issues. Oyo State chapter of PDP risks losing the next governorship election if it fails to resolve its internal crisis before 2023. What is…
Senegalese-American singer, Akon, has admitted that he was heartbroken when Nigerian music duo, P-Square, broke up. “It broke my heart because we are family. These are brothers and they shared the same womb and I always felt money should not get in between them,” he told Channels Television on the sidelines of the Expo 2020 Dubai. According to him, the duo’s separation may be due to a lot of pressure in their careers and relationship, noting that a whole lot happens in the music industry. “It was being together that made them who they were. But sometimes you have differences…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has said there is no provision in law that empowers the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to overrule the decisions of the #EndSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry. In a communique titled, ‘Comments On LASG White Papers On Endsars Panel Reports’, the senior lawyer also argued that no provision exists for the issuance of a White Paper under the law setting up the Panel. “Under and by virtue of section 15 of the Tribunal of Inquiry Law, upon conclusion of any inquiry, the Governor is only empowered to issue directive for the enforcement…
In his bid to ensure adequate security of lives and property, the executive chairman of Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo State, Hon. Olaide Settle has laid a foundation for Omituntun Police Station in Ward 9 Onigambari of the council area. Performing the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the police station, Hon. Settle recalled how the Royal fathers of Onigambari requested for a police station. According to the council boss, the royal fathers emphasised how the construction of a modern police station constitute one of the topmost need of their community because of its location along the busy but…