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  Pandemonium broke out on Thursday afternoon when robbers attacked a bullion van in Idi-Ape area of Ibadan, the Oyo state capital city. Sources said the masked gunmen carried out the attack on the unsuspecting convoy of two vehicles suspected to be conveying cash from one of the new generation ...

  Pandemonium broke out on Thursday when robbers attacked a bullion van in Idi-Ape area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital city. Unconfirmed sources said two policemen died with the robbers shooting sporadically while carrying out the operation. It could not be confirmed if the gunmen successful hijacked the bullion ...

  The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Company Limited (NNPC), Mele Kyari, has disclosed that four companies were responsible for the importation of adulterated fuel into the country. Speaking on Wednesday during a media briefing at the NNPC Headquarters in Abuja, Kyari said MRS, Emadeb/Hyde/AY Maikifi/Brittania-U Consortium, Oando ...

  Society gazette reports that a 200-level OAU student, Heritage has died after falling inside her hostel soak-away which was shabbily covered. She was picking her clothes when she mistakenly and unfortunately fell into the soak-away, leading to her death. The video of the soak away has however surfaced online ...

  Society gazette reports that there has been blame game following reports of contaminated petrol product in some filling stations in the country. This was discovered this week and one of the filling stations at the receiving end has been MRS due to the fact that a video making rounds ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to declare a national emergency on ritual killings across the country. Society gazette reports that the House of Representatives made the call during its plenary on Wednesday. The development was part of the resolutions reached by the lawmakers on a motion of urgent ...

The Oyo State Government on Wednesday sealed the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) offices in Ibadan over non-payment of over 400 million Naira tax. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that tax evasion in Nigeria is punishable under Section 40 of Federal Inland Revenue Service Act.     Evasion of tax is one ...

  The Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday visited the family of the five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar who was abducted and murdered by Tanko Abdulmalik. Osinbajo visited the family in Kano State to commiserate with them over the murder of their child. Recall that the proprietor of Noble Kids ...

  Alhaja Bejide, wife of a former Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, is dead. It was gathered that she died at 77 on Tuesday after complaining of stress.   She died ahead of her husband’s planned birthday celebration. Olanusi, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ...

  The International Monetary Fund has called on the Federal Government to further increase the Value Added Tax rate to tackle the current revenue challenges being faced by the country. The Federal Government had in 2020 raised the rate of Value Added Tax from five per cent to 7.5 per ...