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Chairman of Oyo State Tipper, Lorry And Quarry Park Management System, Alhaji Akeem Akintola, a.k.a KUSO, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The unfortunate abduction occurred in the early hours of today (Saturday), around Jiboye area of Omi Apata, Ibadan, the state capital. According to a source, the attackers stormed the residence of Alhaji Akeem Akintola (Kuso) and abducted him to an unknown destination. Multiple sources have confirmed the incident, including a family member and associates who preferred not to be mentioned. The source stated that “the gunmen arrived earlier this morning and attacked him without any resistance before…

Tamuno Dauda (not real name), an Ogun State resident, has detailed how OPay refused to make a refund of N36,133 to him after he was debited twice for a flight booking. Speaking with FIJ, Dauda said he was debited for booking an Arik Air flight ticket using the fintech’s platform on December 17, 2021. “I used OPay to book a flight ticket for my friend during the period, and while making payment, the financial institution’s platform experienced a downtime,” said Dauda. “In the end, N36,133 was debited from my account but the flight booking was not successful. “I had…

Two Israeli children were filmed crossing the Gaza border into the Jabaliya area on Thursday before being returned to the Israeli side of the border by IDF troops, Army Radio reported Friday afternoon. The IDF released a statement on the incident, stressing that physical proximity to the border area is “dangerous and forbidden. “The children crawled under the fence inside Israeli territory,” the IDF further said, reaffirming that they never reached Gazan territory. Gaza border protests intensify The incident happened while dozens of civilians gathered on Thursday near the border fence with the Gaza Strip inside Israeli territory, in the…

Abdulazeez Adegbola popularly known as Tani Olohun, a traditional religion worshipper, has said he does not have any plan to leave his religion as speculated. Tani Olohun said this during an exclusive interview session with BBC Yoruba monitored by SaharaReporters. He stated that there was no time he agreed to convert to Islam for his cases to be dismissed in Kwara State. Tani Olohun spent 91 days at the Federal Correctional Service in Ilorin, the state capital, for allegedly defaming some Islamic clerics. He was released in November 2023. The Isese worshipper said the dismissal of the cases filed…

The Journalists in Ogun state recently fumed over the unruly attack on the Ogun state journalist scribe, Bunmi Adigun, secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Ogun State Council, who works with the Ogun State Television while working at an event, is the . He was officially invited to cover the 66th Birthday and Conferment of Chieftaincy title on the governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke by Oba Adeyemi Adekeye, AbepaJoga Orile as the Baba Oba The colorful event attracted so many dignitaries from within the state and outside but mainly from Osun State maybe. “I was there…

The Lagos Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Philip Aivoji, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway this afternoon, NewsbreakNaija has learned. This platform learnt abductors demanded for N200m ransom He was kidnapped at the Ogere area of the road while coming from the PDP Southwest Zonal meeting held in Ibadan yesterday. Another member of the Lagos State PDP Exco who was said to have escaped is receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital. Details later…

A private jet having about 10 persons onboard including Very Important Personalities (VIPs) has crash-landed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. An impeccable source said the jet crash-landed on Friday around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. The jet with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway into the nearby bush. Firefighters and rescue officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) were immediately deployed to the scene. But there was no death or casualty recorded. “It was a private plane from Abuja. It landed safely but overshot the runway. There was no casualty,” a spokesperson for the…

Oyo state government, through the State Scholarship Board, has completed the verification and Screening Exercise of 193 Oyo indigenes in the Nigerian Law School for the 2022/2023 Session. The Chairman, Oyo State Scholarship Board, RT.Hon.Maroof Atilola, while speaking at the Board’s Conference Room, Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan, said the screening exercise was to ascertain the claims submitted by the applicants across the Nigerian law school campuses. He said that Governor Makinde, graciously approved bursary allowance in the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Naira (#500,000) per head for batch 2023 law school students who are indigenes of Oyo state. The Chairman noted…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has delivered a preliminary ruling on Friday in South Africa’s case alleging genocide by Israel in Gaza, ordering Israel to stop its military campaign. At a two-day hearing this month, South Africa asked the court to issue provisional measures requiring Israel to immediately end its military campaign in Gaza, which began after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas militant group. About 1,200 Israelis, mainly citizens, were killed in the October 7 coordinated attacks, with 240 taken hostage, an estimated 129 of whom are still being held captive. The death…

Barely seven months into his tenure as chief of naval staff, Emmanuel Ogalla is now battling to save his job after being flagged for his role in aiding a loosely coordinated bunkering of Nigerian crude and multibillion-naira contract splitting fraud The Gazette reveals after reviewing documents and speaking with federal sources familiar. Mr Ogalla’s sprawling raid of military earmarks has already drawn the awareness of defence minister Bello Matawalle, The Gazette was told, although it was not immediately understood how far he would be willing to go to hold the naval chief accountable. Two sources said Mr Matawalle, until…