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  The fallout from the defection of Wole Oke, the House of Representatives member for Oriade/Obokun Federal Constituency, from the Peoples Democratic Party continued on Monday, with former PDP Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Diran Odeyemi, threatening to initiate his recall.   Odeyemi’s response followed comments made by Oke during ...

  Security chiefs in Anambra State on Monday met in a closed-door meeting to strategise and harmonise on security ahead of the scheduled visit of President Bola Tinubu on Thursday.   In attendance at the high-level meeting, which lasted for five hours included the Nigeria Police Force, Department of State ...

  The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria has mandated that all influencers and content creators must obtain prior approval before publishing advertisements on any platform.   According to CableNG, this directive was issued in a statement on Monday signed by ARCON’s Director-General, Olalekan Fadolapo, who raised concerns about the growing ...

  Activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has criticised Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, for keeping mute over the arrest of controversial social media critic, Verydarkman, despite mounting public outcry and protests.   Adeyanju, in a post shared on X, accused the renowned human rights lawyer of not speaking ...

  The Nigerian Postal Service has announced a series of bold reforms aimed at repositioning the organisation as a modern, innovative, and digitally driven postal institution.   In a statement release by its Director of Corporate Communications, Franklin Alao, on Monday, NIPOST said the reforms, operating under the theme “Change ...

  A 26-year-old man, David Isaiah, who kidnapped and killed a commercial sex worker, Comfort James, with herbicide, was in Monday sentenced to death by hanging by an Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division.   Isaiah was charged with conspiracy, kidnapping and murder alongside his friend, Saviour Daniel, who ...

  Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the arrest and continued detention of social media activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, describing it as another sign of growing authoritarianism under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.   VeryDarkMan’s arrest was confirmed by EFCC’s ...

  The Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, (rted.) has charged participants of Senior Course 47 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, to ensure that their study tour reports provide practical solutions to the pressing security challenges facing the nation.   Ibas gave the charge ...

  The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Monday, carried out a cabinet reshuffle.   A statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Sulaimon Olanrewaju, said the governor announced this in a letter signed by his Chief of Staff, Segun Ogunwuyi, in Ibadan, the state capital.   The letter stated, ...

  The Oyo State Government has signed contracts worth N3.5bn for the first phase of upgrading and remodelling three rural markets across the state.   The initiative, under the Oyo State Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project, aims to modernise rural markets to support agricultural productivity and improve market access ...