The Punch News reports that there is an indication that the Boko Haram insurgents are demanding a ransom before releasing members of the Living Faith Tabernacle Church (Winners Chapel) they kidnapped two weeks ago. It was reported that gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram kidnapped a member of …
Read More »Containers, Tankers Start Movement With Rail
Beginning from today (Tuesday May 7, 2019) containers and oil tankers would start moving goods from Lagos ports through the newly acquired Railway wagons to the north. The goods would move to the dry port in Kaduna in the North. The transport minister Rotimi Amaechi had ordered some wagons for …
Read More »Angry Villagers Block Osinbajo’s Convoy In Abuja
SAN FRANCISCO, May 08, (THEWILL) – Aggrieved protesters blocked the convoy of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo along Umaru Musa Yar’Adua expressway in Abuja on Tuesday morning. The vice-president was heading to the airport when his convoy ran into a barricade at the Goza village axis of the road. Residents of Gbagyi …
Read More »Remembering Adedibu’s Hilarious Encounter With A Pastor And An Imam
SAN FRANCISCO, May 08, (THEWILL) – Late Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu was the Balogun Musulumi of Oyo State. He had a big mosque in his expansive Molete residence in Ibadan which was hardly free of activity on any given day. Adedibu’s engagements in the mosque were complemented by prayer sessions observed …
Read More »Tinubu, Akeredolu Reconcile, Meet In Abuja
The political differences between former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu, and the governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, appears to be coming to an end following a peace meeting between the duo in Abuja on Sunday May 5, 2019. Both politicians travelled parallel paths after the 2012 governorship election in …
Read More »BREAKING: Alleged Certificate Forgery: Court Grants N2m Bail To Senator Adeleke
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to Senator Ademola Adeleke, to the sum of two million naira, and a surety to be resident within Mpape. Senator Adeleke, who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2018 governorship election in Osun state, was …
Read More »EFCC Hunts For FIRS Boss Fowler As Aide Allegedly Exposes Fowler’s Car Gift To A Girlfriend
Babatunde Fowler, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service is on the run, LeadingReporters can authoritatively reveal. Information availed this online platform. indicates that Babatunde Fowler dug his own grave by inviting EFCC to probe some senior officers of the commission. As much as over N2b was seen in …
Read More »Battle For Fowler’s FIRS Job Rages On
A plot is in the works to ensure that Mr. Babatunde Fowler, Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) is ousted from his position, authoritative sources said. The plot has authors powerful political figures who, in spite of the huge improvement in revenue collection by the FIRS under Fowler, are minded …
Read More »Fashola Suffers Big Disappointment As His Name Is Reportedly Missing On Buhari’s List of New Cabinet Members
As the mist rises in Aso rock over the list of new ministers to work with President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress in the next 4 years of his administration, rather disappointing news that has come as a shock to many has been reported. According to Naija News, …
Read More »UN General Assembly President, María Garces Arrived Nigeria On Working Visit
The President of the United Nations General Assembly, María Garces has arrived in Nigeria on a working visit. Garces and her delegation were received into the country on Monday May 6, 2019 by officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations office in Abuja. According to …
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