Residents of Ajebo Road Housing Estate, Kemta, Abeokuta have been thrown into mourning following the killing of a Professor of Biochemical Toxicology with the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Oladipo Ademuyiwa by a hit-and-run driver on the newly rehabilitated Kemta-Somorin road on Sunday. Prof Ademuyiwa, in his early 60s, was said to have just…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its affiliate unions from the education sector on Monday declared ‘ no pay, no work’, in response to the Federal Government declaration of ‘no work, no pay’ policy as a result of the ongoing two weeks warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The NLC alongside…
The opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) has reacted to the recent defections of two governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The ADC described the move as a gang-up against Nigerians by the governors. Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, formally declared for the APC at an elaborate event…
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has blamed President Bola Tinubu’s administration for Nigeria’s exclusion from high-level commercial talks between the United States and five African countries at the White House this week. In a statement on Tuesday, the party described Nigeria’s absence as a ‘damning international indictment’ of the government’s poor handling of the economy…
Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was killed Wednesday after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. He was 31. As Trump remade the Republican Party, Kirk embodied the party’s newfound populist conservatism in the social media age….
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested an officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The NDLEA officer was arrested over allegations of attempted robbery and shooting of a Bolt driver in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. A security expert, Zagazola Makama, said that the NDLEA officer…
kidnappers, who abducted the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in Ose council area of Ondo State, Nelson Adepoyigi, have detained the ransom bearers. Adepoyigi, who is the chairman of APC at Ward 5, in Ifon, was kidnapped on Monday night at the entrance of his house located on the Ifon/Owo road. It was learnt that…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on Monday, said strikes from its fighter jets killed several terrorists planning to disrupt the repair being carried out on the Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line. The terrorists had destroyed the transmission line, a major conduit supplying electricity to the North. The attack on this infrastructure has plunged…
President Bola Tinubu has conferred the national honour of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) on Bill Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation. The president conferred the honour on Gates in Lagos on Tuesday at an event witnessed by top government officials, including Ali Pate, coordinating minister of health and social welfare,…
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been sworn in as Namibia’s first female president and the country’s fifth leader. Peter Shivute, Namibian chief justice, swore Nandi-Ndaitwah in on Friday during the nation’s 35th Independence Day ceremony at the State House. Outgoing president Nangolo Mbumba, 83, handed over power to Nandi-Ndaitwah at the ceremony that was moved from the…
