The protesters of the ongoing protest in Osun state have suspended demonstration against hunger and others over the upcoming 2024 Osun Osogbo festival. The decision was reached after presenting protest letter to Osun state governor, Ademola Adeleke, which was received by his deputy, Kola Adewusi at state secretariat. Adewusi assured the protesters that the governor…
Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has said that one of the “graduates” fraudulently mobilised for the scheme by University of Calabar, Cross Rivers State, is a bread seller who did not attend the institution. This is coming on the back of 101 certificates that were recently voided by the…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, says he has no regret for supporting President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general elections. Prior to his ministerial appointment, he governed the oil-rich Rivers State for eight years under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He was later called by Tinubu to serve as FCT…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has departed Abuja for Dakar, Senegal. The Vice President is expected to represent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at Senegal’s 65th Independence Day Anniversary celebrations. Senegal celebrates its Independence Day on April 4 each year, commemorating its freedom from French colonial rule in 1960. The day is…
Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has called on President Bola Tinubu to caution Vice President Kashim Shettima against further verbal attacks on Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Conservative Party. Igboho’s statement, obtained in Osogbo on Sunday, came in response to Shettima’s remarks about Badenoch, who had earlier made…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Saturday declared the Executive Chairman of Total Grace Oil and Gas Investment Limited, Bolaji Akinduro, wanted for alleged fraud. This was according to a statement on the anti-graft agency’s official X.com account on Saturday. The statement noted that Akinduro allegedly obtained money under false pretence and stealing by…
The Federal Government has spent approximately $8 billion in an attempt to stabilize the naira amid ongoing economic pressures. This was made known by the CEO of Financial Derivatives Company, Bismarck Rewane on Friday. Speaking on Channels Television’s News at 10 on Friday, Rewane highlighted the substantial interventions made to manage exchange rate volatility and…
The Senate has suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghen for six months over her dispute with Senate President Godswill Akpabio. GISTSMATE MEDIA reported that the Senate Committee on Ethics on Thursday recommended suspending Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for six months over the controversy surrounding her sexual harassment allegation against SP Akpabio. The committee also advised that the Kogi…
Nigeria’s controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, has been rushed to the Police Hospital at Falomo, Lagos, after complaining of pain in his ‘breasts’. According to a source, Bobrisky expressed discomfort, after spending hours in the police cell at Alagbon, Lagos State. A police source disclosed that he was taken to the hospital…
French leading opposition leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and banned from holding any public office after she was convicted of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday, putting her 2027 presidential bid in jeopardy. The judgment bars her from running for public office for five years, jeopardising…