Author: Halimah Olamide
Halimah Olamide Holds a degree in History and Education. She also holds professional certificates in graphics and passionate about reporting issues of politics, economy, and gender
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ondo/ Ekiti Command has handed over 140 sacks of substances suspected to be Cannabis sativa weighing 1,400 Kilo Grammes to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency( NDLEA). The substance estimated to have a market value of N112 million was handed over to the NDLEA on Monday in Akure. The NCS Comptroller in charge of the command, Mrs Morenikeji Bewaji, said that the substance was intercepted while being conveyed by two suspects in Ado Ekiti before being clamped down by NSC patrol team on Dec. 7, 2024. Bewaji explained that the suspects absconded after being granted…
Traders have been left devastated following a fuel tanker explosion near the Ibadan Toll Gate along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. NPO reports that the incident which occurred on Saturday at about 2:45pm destroyed several shops, vehicles, and motorcycles, leaving many locals counting immense losses. It was gathered that one of the affected shops was loaded with computer sets worth millions of naira, and some of the cars and motorcycles that were packed along the road were razed by fire. NPO Reports learnt that the driver of the truck and his assistant narrowly escaped death. The incident occurred very close to Lead…
Project Management is basically “The Residence” on Netflix, a whole series of hidden agendas, unexpected twists, and cleaning up messes you didn’t make but still have to solve and I’ll explain why. If you’ve watched The Residence on Netflix, the gripping murder mystery unfolding inside the White House, you’ll see the striking resemblance to project management chaos. Being a Project Manager sometimes feels exactly like being Detective Cordelia Cupp, except instead of solving a murder, you’re trying to figure out: 📌 Who moved the project deadline without telling you? 📌 Where did these new requirements magically appear from? 📌 Why…
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has condemned the Federal government following the recent ban on Nigerian Artiste, Eedris Abdulkareem’s latest song. In a statement released on Sunday from New York University, Abu Dhabi, Wole Soyinka condemned the move and its broader consequences, noting that it resembled previous efforts to suppress artistic and socio-political expression in the country. “Courtesy of an artist operating in a different genre – the cartoon – who sent me his recent graphic comment on the event, I learnt recently of a return to the culture of censorship with the banning of the product of a music…
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have neutralized four kidnappers. The Spokesperson of the Command, Edafe Bright disclosed this in an X post on Sunday. Among the kidnappers killed was the gang’s leader, an Onitsha-based business man who was said to have maintained a legitimate front while coordinating kidnappings and murders. The operation led by the CP Special Assignment Team led to the death of the four gang members and the recovery of three AK-47 rifles. Bright revealed that the gang was behind some gruesome crimes, including the kidnapping and murder of Miss Esther Ojoh, a young realtor who…
The latest report by the Community Orientation and Mobilisation Officers (COMO), of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), has shed light on an alarming trend among some tertiary institutions pertaining to the student loan. In a statement by the Deputy Director, Communications and Media, NOA, Paul Odenyi , schools and banks are conspiring to withhold loan disbursements from eligible students. The Director General of the NOA, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, announced the findings after meeting with NELFUND Managing Director, Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, over the weekend. Initial reports indicated that certain university officials have been withholding vital information regarding loan disbursements, prompting immediate…
Safiu Kehinde President Bola Tinubu has faulted the spread of billboards campaigning for him ahead of the 2027 Presidential Election. The President, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, decried the emergence of the campaign billboards across the nation- especially in Abuja and Kano. While appreciating his supporters and those of Vice President, Kashim Shettima, Tinubu held that he is not in support of the campaigns billboards coming out now. According to the statement, most of such billboards with pictures of the President and his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, are being erected in…
United States President, Donald Trump is in “excellent cognitive and physical health”, says his White House physician. In the first annual physical of his second presidential term at a Washington DC-area hospital, Trump was also found to have “scaring on the right ear from a gunshot wound”, after an assassination attempt last July. “President Trump remains in excellent health, exhibiting robust cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and general physical function,” his doctor, Captain Sean Barbabella, said in a memo. At 78, Trump was the oldest president to take office in January, though his predecessor, Joe Biden, was older at 82 by the…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 41-year-old ex-convict and Malaysian returnee, Ndubuisi Udatu (aka Richard) with two giant music speakers used to conceal four large parcels of methamphetamine. A statement by the Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, stated that the parcel weighing 2.700kilograms was to be distributed in Yola and Mubi, Adamawa state, and across the border into Cameroon. Ndubuisi was arrested inside a commercial transport bus at an NDLEA check point at Namtari along Ngurore -Yola road, Adamawa on Monday 7th April 2025. He was also found with monetary exhibit of…
Ikeja Electric, has issued a public warning following reports of a fraudulent individual impersonating a relative of the company’s board Chairman, Dr. Kola Adesina, In an official statement, the company stated that neither Ikeja Electric nor its Chairman has any connection with her. The individual has been falsely identifying herself as “Bukola Adesina” and claiming to be Dr. Adesina’s sister. According to the statement, the individual has been soliciting funds from unsuspecting customers and members of the public under false pretense. “To Whom It May Concern, “Ikeja Electric Plc. has been alerted to the fraudulent activities of an individual falsely…