AkinfeAyo's blog

NIGERIA has averted another religious row after the University College (UCH) in Ibadan approved the wearing of the Muslim headscarf the hijab for its nursing students despite objections to the measure from some quarters.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's campaign manager Festus Keyamo has asked Nigerians to give the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) secretariat more time to respond to allegations that finance minister Kemi Adeosun forged an exemption certificate.

TENSION remains high across Ekiti State as it goes to the polls today to elect a new governor after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claimed that more than 500 of its supporters have been arrested by the security forces.

HUNDREDS of Nigerian football fans have been left stranded in Russia unable to return home having being sold false travel packages that involved their return plane tickets being cancelled by bogus travel agencies that booked them.

NIGERIA'S Larry Ekundayo has become the new International Boxing Federation (IBF) European welterweight boxing champion after defeating John Thian last night at the Bethnal Green Arena in London.

LAGOS State police commissioner Edgal Imohimi has issued a stern warning to the men under his command that anyone caught carrying out operational duties in mufti from henceforth will be sanctioned.

FORMER Anambra State governor Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived backing of Fulani herdsmen might be the will of God as it could eventually unite all Nigerians to rebrand the country.

OFFICE of the Auditor General of the Federation staff Lebi Ayodele James has been jailed for two years by a Federal Capital territory high court for  forging an Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (Ican) certificate.

GOVERNMENT officials plan to publish the names of 200 individuals who own property that was purchased with illegally-acquired funds as part of the ongoing clampdown on corruption by the Buhari administration.

SPECULATION that Sokoto State's Governor Aminu Tambuwal will leave the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and seek the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) grew yesterday after he hosted six other governors.