By Ayomide Oriade Lagos, Nigeria; November 2nd, 2020: Jumia has announced that its logistics service is now available for use by third parties. Until today, Jumia’s logistics services were reserved for e-commerce and food vendors operating on its marketplace. Jumia’s logistics services are now open to third party businesses who …

Opinion By Ayomide Oriade In every sphere of human endeavor, the year 2020 alone has served up events and happenings that would have conveniently filled for three or four years combined. On a global scale, Covid-19 brought economic activities to a halt for weeks. Even the strongest economies of the …

ABEOKUTA – Worried by the high level of cultism in primary, secondary and Tertiary institution across the country, The Ogun State Government has promised to fight the menace and make all the schools, including tertiary Institutions a peaceful place of learning for the students. The Special Adviser to the Governor …

ABEOKUTA – The Ogun State Government, in collaboration with Orange Card is planning to host maiden edition of Teachers Fest in the state, in order to inculcate and impact Information, Communication Technology (ICT ) on wards at earlier stage. It will also contain the training of teachers on Information Communication …

Opinion Last week will go down as one of the most challenging weeks, if not the most challenging, Nigeria has faced in 2020. What started out weeks before as very well-organised peaceful protests by young Nigerians campaigning to #EndSARS, was supplanted by hoodlums engaging in wanton looting, arson and destruction …

By Seyifunmi Odunuga IBADAN – Dr. Olapade Agoro, former Presidential Candidate of National Action Council who also founded the party and Owatapa of Itapa Ijesha, is dead, aged 78. According to a report from one of his children, Alhaja Adeola Agoro JP who broke the news to Startrend on phone …

By Seyifunmi Odunuga IBADAN – A Special Assistant to former governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo state, Barrister Koyejo Oyetunde has described the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state, Alhaji Bayo Lawal as a personality with short memory. Oyetunde said he wouldn’t have reacted to the derogatory …

By Seyifunmi Odunuga IBADAN – The Ibadan Youth Progressive Circle (IYPC), a group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State has described Chief Bayo Lawal’s derogatory remarks on some PDP Chieftains, including Chief Femi Babalola as unfortunate and malicious. IYPC stated this in a statement signed by its …

By Seyifunmi Odunuga IBADAN – After surviving what he described as an assassination attempt which took place on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, the General President of Ibadan Joint Traders Association (IJTA) Alhaji Dauda Abiodun Oladepo narrated his close to death experience from the incidence. It would be recalled that the …

By Raymomd Osho ABEOKUTA – Operatives of Ogun Police Command said it had on Sunday, November 1, 2020 arrested five members of a dreaded cult group who allegedly unleashed terror on the people of Ifo in Ifo Local Government area of Ogun State. The Command’s spokespersons, Oyeyemi Abimbola made this …