The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has described those calling for the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakub, over the just concluded Presidential election, as agents of destabilisation and confusion. AYCF said this in a statement signed and made available to NigeriaCheck Newspaper by its National President, Alhaji […]
..Says Ordering of Army Not In His Purview Nigeria’s international award winning actor, movie producer cum human rights activist, Yomi Fabiyi, has given kudos to Governor Babajide SanwoOlu, for his statesmanship during the #Endsars protest in October 2020 in Lagos. Contrary to the viral accusation that Governor SanwoOlu ordered the Army to shoot at unarmed […]
The Lagos State Government says its staff bus driver, Remi Osibanjo, who drove into a moving train at the PWD Ikeja, has been arrested and detained for further investigation. The staff bus with Reg. No.: 04A-48LA coming from Isolo to Ikeja, had in the early hours of Thursday, March 9, at about 7:30am, while crossing […]
The Coroner Inquest set-up to unravel the misery surrounding the death of Lagos-based pastry chef, Peju Ugboma, has indicted doctors of Premier Hospital for medical negligence. The mother of two died after she suffered internal bleeding following an elective hysterectomy operation for a fibroid condition at the Victoria Island-based hospital in April 2021. Until her […]
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has suspended a political walk scheduled for Thursday across Agege, following a train/ bus accident at the Ikeja area of the State earlier today. The bus had staff of the Lagos State Government, who were on their way to work. The Speaker met thousands of […]
A passenger train has crushed a Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, carrying staff of the Lagos State Government at the Ikeja GRA rail crossing, opposite PWD junction, leading to the death of about two people, while several were seriously injured. The accident, which occurred in the early hours of Thursday, was said to be the result […]
Two Chinese, Chen Guo Yao and Jin Jiaoni, as well as their company, Longshen Construction International Limited, have been arraigned before a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, South-West, Nigeria, for allegedly stealing the sum of £250,000; 60,000 Euros and RMB 280,000. The foreigners and their company, on one hand, were arraigned by the Nigeria […]
Justice Mohammed Jibril of the Upper Area Court of Nasarawa State, sitting in Maraba, Gurku, has ordered the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Force CID, Area 10, Garki and two Managing Directors of commercial banks, to appear before it or face committal proceedings. The affected banks are the Standard Chartered Bank Plc and Access Bank Plc. […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has postponed Saturday’s March 11, Governorship and State Assemblies’ elections to March 18, 2023. This postponement is coming just three days to the initial date March 11 scheduled for the state elections. According to a statement signed by INEC’s National Commissioner & Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. […]
A medical doctor, Mrs Sekinat Oredoyin, has told a Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, how one, Prophet Olushola Akinsipe, allegedly defiled a 13-year-old visually-impaired girl on the pretext of praying for her. Oredoyin, a public health physician at the Yaba Local Council Development Area, LCDA, noted that she had 13-years work experience, while being […]