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An herbalist, Adeniyi Adewunmi, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly swindling an ailing businessman out of N190m. The 43-year-old reportedly collected the sum from the complainant, one Lawrence Akanbi, in tranches on the pretext that he would help him find cure to his illness. PUNCH Metro learnt that Adewunmi and…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, said it generated N4 trillion from tax revenue collected in 2017. This represents 20 percent or N800 billion increase when compared with N3.3 trillion generated in 2016. The Executive Director, FIRS, Mr. Tunde Fowler disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Oba of Lagos yesterday. He said, “The…
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The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) has said that, as part of its campaign efforts in 2018, safety advocacy would be re-introduce in school curriculum, in all tiers of education, in the State. The Corps Commander, Cdr Seni Ogunyemi who disclosed this during an interview with pressmen at his office in Abeokuta,…
Ogun State Head of Services (HoS), Mr. Abayomi Sobande, has called on all Civil Servants in the State, to be more committed and diligent in the discharge of their duties, towards sustaining the ethics of civil service. This advice was given at the send-off party, organized by the Bureau of State Pension, for it out-gone…
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has congratulated the national coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Otunba Gani Adams, on his installation as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III. Adeboye, in a letter to Adams, dated January…
A church in Abeokuta the Ogun State capital, Treasure House of God, last weekend, fed and gave out cash and other items worth millions of Naira to 4,700 less privileged people in the gateway state. The beneficiaries of the charity gesture include widows, widowers, youths, students and the physically challenged in line with the corporate…
The Nigerian Community in South Africa said on Saturday that a mob destroyed four shops and several houses belonging to their members at Krugersdorp, near Johannesburg. Mr Cyril James, the Ward Chairman of the Nigerian Union in the area, told the News Agency of Nigeria on the telephone from Johannesburg, South Africa that the attacks…
Suspected herdsmen have allegedly killed a farmer, Adetona Owolabi, on his farm on Thursday at Afon in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State. This killing came barely few hours after the state government said it had taken measures to prevent clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the state. Our correspondent gathered that trouble began…
The Ogun State Government is taking proactive measures to prevent clashes between herdsmen and farmers and also ensure that lives and property within the state are safer. Towards this end, the state government has held a meeting with leaders of the various interest groups, including leaders of the Fulani, Hausa communities and Miyetti Allah Cattle…
