A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has said that the sudden penchant for criticism of President Bola Tinubu administration by Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, was as a result of rejection of the latter by the former. Fayose, in a statement personally signed by him on Sunday, was reacting to a recent comment…
The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) has expressed disappointment over the Muslim-Muslim ticket that brought President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima into office in 2023, stating that it has not yielded the expected benefits for the Muslim community. Speaking at a Pre-Ramadan Lecture, the President of SCSN, Sheikh Abdurrasheed Hadiyyatullah, criticized…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a Lagos-based businessman, Ugoh Christogonus Onyewuchi, and his company, C-PAC Integrated Service Nigeria, before Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, for alleged theft of N215.8 million. The defendants were arraigned on Monday, October 13, 2025, by the Lagos Zonal Directorate…
Hon. Waheed Akanbi (Biiro), former Executive Chairman of Ibadan North Local Government and aspirant for the Ibadan North Federal Constituency seat, has congratulated Chief Bayo Lawal, a chieftain of the People Democratic Party in Oyo State and an ally of Governor Makinde on his 70th birthday. In a congratulatory message made available to Eagles’s Sight…
A 400-level student of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu Ode, Adéọlá Adeyemo, has been arrested for allegedly injuring the right eye of Alao Idera, an 11-year-old pupil of Owiwi Nursery and Primary School in Obada Oko, Ogun State. Our correspondent gathered on Monday from the Ogun State Police Command that Adeyemo had been arrested…
A woman, Zainab Alhassan, has divorced her husband, Tijjani Muhammad, over his refusal to repair her damaged cell phone worth N70,000. She told the court that she was no longer interested in their marriage and was ready to divorce him through Khul’i, (a type of divorce where a woman returns the dowry she received to…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed deposit money banks (DMBs) to stop deducting charges for unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) transactions directly from customers’ accounts. The charges will now be deducted from users’ mobile airtime, according to an email from the United Bank for Africa (UBA) to customers on Tuesday. The UBA said the…
Operators of another Ponzi scheme, FF Tiffany, have pulled a fast one on unsuspecting Nigerian investors, fleecing them of hundreds of billions of naira. The number of Nigerians who lost money to the scheme, as well as the total amount they lost, could, however, not be immediately ascertained as of the time of filing this…
An unidentified man has been electrocuted while attempting to vandalise a transformer at a company situated on Awolowo Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The incident was said to have occurred in the early hours of Sunday, September 1. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed this in a statement…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has declared the On-Street Parking scheme, otherwise known as the ‘Park-and-Pay’ scheme, to be illegal, citing fraud in the contract agreement between the managing contractors and the FCT. The Minister made this statement on Wednesday during a media briefing to mark his first year in office…
