Author: Safiu Kehinde

Agency Report Thailand’s parliament has picked Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of billionaire tycoon and former leader Thaksin, as prime minister. At 37, she will be the country’s youngest PM and the second woman in the post, after her aunt Yingluck. Her selection comes just two days after former PM Srettha Thavisin was dismissed by a constitutional court. Both are from the Pheu Thai Party, which came second at the 2023 election but formed a ruling coalition. Ms Paetongtarn is the fourth member of the Shinawatra clan to become prime minister in the past two decades. The other three, including her…

Agency Report The Lagos State Government says traffic will be diverted at Ikeja Along bus stop, between Ile Zik and Conoil Petrol Station, on the Oshodi bound lane from Saturday to Sunday. The Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, made this known in a statement in Lagos. Osiyemi said the diversion would be between the hours of 12 midnight and 4.00 a.m. daily. He said that the diversion was to enable the demolition of the old pedestrian bridge by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA). He said from Ile Zik bus stop up to Conoil Petrol filling station on…

Agency Report The Federal Government has unveiled the Customs, Excise Tariff Variation Order 2024, to boost food security and reduce inflation. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Mohammed Manga, the Director Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Finance in Abuja on Thursday. Mr Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, signed the regulation to provide framework for implementation of the Customs, Excise Tariffs Order 2024. “In a bid to tackle food price inflation and stimulate domestic agricultural growth, the Federal Government has introduced the Regulation for implementation of the Customs, Excise Tariff,…

Agency Report Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Thursday says President Bola Tinubu’s administration is working assiduously to tame all bottlenecks to universal education in the country. According to him , this is being championed through the ongoing reforms of the institutions tasked with overcoming the ideologies and inadequacies frustrating the sub sector. Shettima stated this at the launching of a book titled,” Navigating the Politics of Universal Education Policies in Nigeria”, authored by Prof. Modupe Adelabu, former Deputy Governor of Ekiti, held at the NAF Conference Centre in Abuja. He said, ” As a steward of the nation, His Excellency, President…

Safiu Kehinde The Federal Government of Nigeria has, yesterday, launched $500 million worth of domestic bond. This was disclosed in statement issued by the Ministry of Finance on its official X handle. As contained in the statement, Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, had launched the initiative at an event in Lagos yesterday. He disclosed that the launch was a bold step towards economic transformation poised to attract both local and international investors. “This historic initiative is aimed at raising a minimum of $500 million from both local and international investors, marking a significant step in Nigeria’s ongoing economic reform and…

Safiu Kehinde The father of Spanish and Barcelona Star, Lamine Yamal, is currently under ‘serious but stable’ condition after getting stabbed three times in a murder attempt yesterday. Mounir Nasraoui, 35, was attacked in a car park in the Northeastern Spanish town of Mataro. He was, reportedly, stabbed twice at the abdomen and once at the chest. According to Spanish report, Nasraoui was rush to a hospital where he was placed under under intensive care unit. So far, three people have been arrested in connection to the murder attempt with Yamal visiting his father at the hospital earlier today.

Safiu Kehinde Florence Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy and daughter of Nigerian billionaire, Femi Otedola, has claimed that the mind is human’s greatest critic. DJ Cuppy made this proposition in a TikTok video where she talked about her challenge ahead of her return to school for another degree. Despite already having three degrees which she flaunted in the video, she applied for another as she expressed her love for learning. She, however, decried the decline in assimilation capacity due to age, which was a discouraging factor when applying for the degree. “I already have three degrees, but I love…

Agency Report Arrests have been made over the death of Friends star Matthew Perry who was found unresponsive at his Los Angeles home in October. A post-mortem examination found the cause of his death was “the acute effects of ketamine”, a controlled drug which the recovering addict was taking as part of supervised therapy. LA police opened an investigation in May to determine why Perry, 54, had so much of the drug in his system when he died. On Thursday, two law enforcement sources told the BBC’s US partner CBS that arrests had been made in the investigation. The news…

Agency Report Sweden’s public health agency has recorded what it says is the first case of a contagious new variant of mpox outside the African continent. The person became infected during a stay in an area of Africa where there is currently a major outbreak of mpox Clade 1, the agency said. The news comes just hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of mpox in parts of Africa was now a public health emergency of international concern. At least 450 people died during an initial outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the disease…

Peter Obi Slams FG Over Presidential Jets Sag Safiu Kehinde Labour Party’s 2023 Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has slammed Federal Government over the Presidential Jets seizure saga. Describing it as ’embarrassing’, Obi had taken to his X handle to express his disappointment over the legal case involving the FG, Ogun State government, and a Chinese firm in connection to the seized Presidential jets. Obi said the case has exposed multiple dimensions to our leadership failure and their insensitivity to the plight of the growing poor class. “The trending international news on the seizure of three Jets belonging to Nigeria’s Presidential…