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1 week ago | 
thisdaylive.com | Kemi Olaitan |Sunday Aborisade |Ima Ekanem |Deji Elumoye
•Oduwole declares country now ready for businessJames Emejo in Abuja and Oluchi Chibuzor in LagosNigeria yesterday officially gazetted and transmitted the ECOWAS Schedule of Tariff Offers for Trade in Goods under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to the AfCFTA Secretariat. The move came ahead of the 16th meeting of the AfCFTA Council of Ministers (COM), which is being held today in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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1 month ago | 
thisdaylive.com | Alex Enumah |Wale Igbintade |Adeyinka Salami |Kemi Olaitan
•Adjourns for settlement report as AGF intervenesWale IgbintadeJustice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, ruled yesterday that Oba Otudeko, a former chairman of FBN Holdings Plc and three others must appear for arraignment before their applications challenging the court’s jurisdiction would be heard.
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1 month ago | 
thisdaylive.com | Adeyinka Salami |Kemi Olaitan |Alex Enumah
Wale IgbintadeJustice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has fixed March 28, 2025, for the arraignment of four directors of Petro Union Oil and Gas Limited over alleged £2.5 billion fraudThe arraignment was adjourned after it was established that only three out of the five defendants had been duly served with court summons.
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1 month ago | 
thisdaylive.com | Kemi Olaitan |Adeyinka Salami |Alex Enumah |Wale Igbintade
•Witness admits former governor’s name not on property documentsAlex Enumah in AbujaA Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday admitted documents relating to the Kogi State Government House bank account from 2016 to 2024.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Kemi Olaitan |Adeyinka Salami |Kuni Tyessi
•Says such move will destroy public varsities •TETFund product of ASUU; other African countries emulating it •Education sector stakeholders, VCs, pro-VCs not consultedOnuminya Innocent in SokotoThe Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Sokoto Zone, has warned the federal government not to phase out the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), saying it has helped to transform tertiary educational institutions in Nigeria in the last three decades.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Yinka Kolawole |Adeyinka Salami |Kemi Olaitan
•Reaffirms commitment to make Osun nation’s food basketYinka Kolawole in OsogboGovernor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has given a nod to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government in its ongoing commitment to boost the agricultural sector of the country.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thisdaylive.com | Kemi Olaitan
Kemi Olaitan in IbadanThe United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Zimbabwe, Dr. Ayodele Odusola, yesterday, warned that there could not be sustainable future development financing in Africa without genuine structural economic transformation. Odusola stated this while presenting the first Faculty Distinguished Personality Lecture of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences of the University of Ibadan.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
arise.tv | Kemi Olaitan
Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has presented the instruments of office to the new Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Abimbola Owoade. The event took place on Monday at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s Office, Oyo State Secretariat, Ibadan.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
arise.tv | Kemi Olaitan
Justice Olawoyin has ordered N10m bail and strict conditions for defendants charged in the Ibadan stampede that killed 35 children. A High Court sitting in Ibadan, presided over by Justice Kamorudeen Olawoyin, on Monday, granted a former wife of Ooni of Ife, Naomi Silekunola, and two others being prosecuted for murder and manslaughter, N10 million bail each.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
arise.tv | Kemi Olaitan
Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade has been officially approved as the new Alaafin of Oyo A new Alaafin of Oyo has been formally approved by Governor Seyi Makinde. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, said that Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade after thorough consultations and divinations, has been recommended by the Oyomesi and approved by the Governor of Oyo State.
