The National Association of Nigerian Students, Oyo Chapter Vice Chairman, Comrade Kareem Habeeb ‘Toaster’ has felicitated with Governor Seyi Makinde Aides, Hon. Victor Dideoluwa Olojede, the Senior Special Assistant on students affairs and Hon. Deji Adeyemo, the Senior Special Assistant on political matters on their birthday. Eulogizing the duo’s impacts in the incumbent Oyo state…
The Enugu State Police Command has announced the arrest of a 26-year-old man, identified as Chibuike Joshua Ugwuja, for allegedly staging his own abduction and demanding a ransom of N35 million (N35,000,000) from his family. A statement on Monday by the command’s spokesperson, SP Daniel Ndukwe, explained that the suspect’s father had reported him missing…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after a short trip to France on a brief work visit. The President, who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the early hours of Friday, left for France on Monday. President Tinubu is scheduled to swear in the new Chief Justice of…
The Law Firm of Afe Babalola has written a petition to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, (LPDC) asking it to strike out the name of Lagos-based legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi, from the roll of legal practitioners in Nigeria for allegedly violating certain provisions of the rules of professional conduct for lawyers. The 90-page petition dated…
Nigeria’s Super Eagles and their technical staff boycotted training in Rabat on Tuesday over unresolved bonus payments, raising concerns ahead of their 2026 FIFA World Cup Africa play-off semi-final against Gabon, PUNCH Online has gathered. The squad, along with officials, withheld their participation in protest, citing outstanding allowances dating back to 2019 for achievements including…
The executive members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo North Senatorial District have declared that members of the party in the district are united behind Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde. The party leaders, in a communiqué issued after a meeting — a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent in Ibadan, the state…
The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, asked Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja to recuse herself from his trial. Kanu spoke from the dock at the resumed proceeding in the seven-count terrorism charge the FG preferred against him. Injuries, male colleagues’…
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has filed a lawsuit at the Federal High Court in Abuja requesting the annulment of import licenses granted to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Matrix Petroleum Services Limited, AA Rano Limited, and four other companies. The case centred on the importation of refined petroleum products that Dangote Refinery…
Security and defence, infrastructure, health and education were some of the sectors with high allocations in the N47.9tn Budget Proposal presented by President Bola Tinubu before a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday afternoon. “It is with great pleasure that I lay before this distinguished joint session of the National Assembly, the 2025…
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been transferred to a maximum-security correctional facility in Sokoto State following his sentencing to life imprisonment on Thursday by a Federal High Court in Abuja. GISTSMATE MEDIA reported that Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on Thursday sentenced Nnamdi Kanu, leader…
