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Dr. Rahman Adedoyin, owner of the Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, has been sentenced to die by hanging by Osun State Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Ojo for murder. California man bags 25 years for Kristin Smart’s murder Previously, Justice Ojo ruled that Adedoyin, the owner of the Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, where Timothy Adegoke, an OAU postgraduate student, was reportedly killed, was guilty of manslaughter. According to Justice Ojo’s ruling, the owner of the hotel and two of his employees are found liable for conspiracy to commit manslaughter and unlawful killing of the dead based on the circumstances of the case…

The Osun State Government has threatened to close down filling stations in the state over the hoarding of petrol by marketers in reaction to the subsidy removal announced by President Bola Tinubu yesterday. The state government described the hoarding of gasoline by marketers as inhuman and a deliberate act of wickedness to bring untold hardship to the inhabitants of the state. Hoodlums attack firefighters as fire engulfs filling station in Abuja Olawale Rasheed, the governor’s spokeswoman, said in a statement that the state government will not condone marketers’ actions, calling them unpatriotic. The statement reads thus: “The attention of the…

The Department of State Security Service (DSS) has refuted reports making the rounds that its officials closed the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over ownership of the premises. Reports on Tuesday morning stated that the armed men of the DSS stormed and barricaded the Ikoyi premises of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, preventing its officials from going into the office. Reacting to the report in a statement, the Public Relations Officer, Department of State Services, Peter Afunanya, faulted the report, stating that DSS was only occupying its “facility where it is carrying out its official and…

The Kogi State Government has initiated an investigation into the deaths of five of its citizens, who died when their car crashed into a canal in the state on Friday. Kingsley Fanwo, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, announced this in a statement issued in Lokoja on Monday. Five Kogi residents were killed on Friday when their automobile crashed into the Omi Dam canal along the Niger River in the state’s Yagba West Local Government Area. Only one of the five occupants of the car survived by swimming to safety, supported by a good Samaritan, a fisherman, who regrettably…

The newly sworn-in President of Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu, has made his first set of appointments as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In the appointments, he selected Ambassador Kunle Adeleke as the President’s State Chief of Protocol (SCOP). He also named Dele Alake, a former Lagos State Commissioner of Information, as Presidential Spokesman and Olusegun Dada as Special Adviser, Digital Media. President Tinubu made these appointments following his inauguration yesterday. The President, who has hit the ground running, has also made a few decisions, like the removal of fuel subsidies, which have generated mixed…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan stated that members of his cabinet were afraid of being imprisoned if the immediate previous President, Muhammadu Buhari, was elected in 2015. Jonathan stated in an interview on Monday that some of his cabinet members believed he would flee the nation, but he stayed. Jonathan said, “In my own time especially in the 2015 elections, my ministers, my senior officers, people who worked with me; there was this fear that having lost the election, what would be our fate? Would the new government just throw all of us into jail without giving a fair hearing? Because…

The supreme monarch of the United Kingdom, King Charles III, has sent a congratulatory message to President Bola Tinubu following his assumption of office as the President of the Republic of Nigeria. In a statement, King Charles expressed his desire to strengthen ties between the United Kingdom and Nigeria. King Charles III takes the Coronation oath He stated, “Dear Mr. President, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to you on your inauguration as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and to send you every possible good wish as you assume the many responsibilities of your office. “As…

Nigerians are lamenting the removal of fuel subsidies by President Bola Tinubu as queues returned to Lagos and Abuja, the country’s capital, on Monday. Tinubu, during his inauguration on Monday, declared that the fuel subsidy was gone, sending the country into a frenzy and its citizens into hardship on his first day on the job. Nigeria, a major oil producer in Africa and also the largest crude oil exporter on the continent, has not had a functioning fuel refinery in decades, leaving black marketers to smile to the bank at the detriment of motorists and other fuel users. Reports gathered…

A Libyan court condemned 23 individuals to death and 14 others to life in prison on Monday for their roles in a murderous Islamic State terrorist campaign that included the execution of a number of Egyptian Christians and the seizure of Sirte in 2015. According to the Attorney General’s office, one other individual was sentenced to 12 years in jail, six to ten years, one to five years, and six to three years, while five others were acquitted and three others died before their case went to trial. Islamic State’s Libyan branch was one of the militant group’s strongest outside…

Armed officers of the State Security Service (SSS) barricaded the Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday morning, May 30, 2023. The SSS officials who took siege of the premises prevented the officials of the EFCC from gaining entrance into the office located at Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. This development is not unconnected to the ongoing rivalry between both agencies over the ownership of the building. According to sources from both agencies, there has been an ongoing feud between them over the ownership of the building. Reacting to the closure of the premises, an official…