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A 33-year-old woman, Fatima Balogun, was Wednesday, arrested by prison officials as she tried smuggling a mobile phone, hidden in a cooler of soup, to her robbery suspect boyfriend being held at Ibara Prisons, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The woman was reportedly arrested at the prison’s gate lodge by the Special Intelligence Unit of Nigerian Prisons,…
The Federal Road Safety Corps on Wednesday said Nigerians should stop the age-old superstition of blaming demons for the recklessness of drivers on motorways. The Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, admonished motorists to start taking responsibility their actions while behind the wheels. “Nigerians must be aware that frequent cases of road crashes during…
Reports monitored online from The Punch and other online news websites indicate the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Tuesday escaped a car fire accident involving his Mercedes G Wagon. The cause of the car fire accident still remained a mystery on Wednesday. According to a statement by his Special Assistant on New Media and…
Etisalat now 9 mobile. It is official, it has been announced, to the general public that Etisalat is now 9 mobile. Its successor company, Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS) formally confirmed the development on Tuesday in a statement released. “Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS), which previously traded as ‘Etisalat Nigeria’ wishes to inform…
After a pulsating fight in the male 64kg category of the tournament, Dayo Daniel was declared winner over Kasali Moshood. And, was later voted as the best boxer of the tournament for his impressive performance. Daniel is of Champion Boxing Club while Moshood is from PLC Boxing Club. The tournament which held last weekend at the…
The first batch of winners of Customs e-auction system emerges from it’s Ogun command at Idiroko today. The Ogun State Command of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has rolled out the release of e-auction vehicles to Nigerians who won the bid, in line with the policy of the top Customs Management, initiated by CGC Hameed Ali.…
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has finally released this year’s May/June WASSCE results. The long awaited results were released earlier today at a conference by the examining body. Speaking at a press briefing held today at its corporate office in Yaba, Lagos, Head of National Office, Nigeria, Mr. Olu Adenipekun said the performance results…
Angry Nigerian asked: Is NIN eCard issue after death? As more Nigerians continued to decry the delay in issuance of their national identity card by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), OgunToday has gotten hold of an angry letter written by a Nigerian to the Director General of the Commission regarding the delay in issuing him/her the…
The refusal of the Nigerian custom boss, the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, retd. to wear the official uniform has landed him into more trouble with the Senate. FOR not wearing the complete uniform as instructed, the Senate, yesterday, walked him out of the Red Chamber. Senators asked Ali to leave…
As we reported earlier A consortium of three Nigerian banks and their foreign counterparts Wednesday took over Etisalat Nigeria after the telecommunications company failed to pay a loan sum totalling $1.72bn (about N541.8bn) granted to it by the consortium in 2015. The three Nigerian banks are Guaranty Trust Bank, Access Bank and Zenith Bank. As…
