The State Department has suspended processing passport applications seeking the gender marker of “X” and will only process and issue passports for people identifying as male or female, according to a department spokesperson. The move aligns with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday that says it is US government policy “to…
By Tunde Oyekola The Janaza (burial) of Kwara-born Lagos entertainer, Mukaila Senwele was done at the Muslim Cemetery in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Saturday. Mukaila, a popular Lagos-based entertainer was buried according to the Islamic rites at the Cemetery in the presence of family, friends and admirers who thronged the burial ground to…
By Solomon Odeniyi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has approved the promotion of 900 personnel. The EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, disclosed this during the commission’s 2024 Rewards and Recognition ceremony in Abuja on Saturday. Olukoyede also announced the reinstatement of life and property insurance for EFCC operatives, a policy that had been absent for…
By Tunde Oyekola The University of Ilorin has appointed two new Deputy Vice Chancellors, Professors Taibat Odunola-Bakare and Mukhtar Adeiza Etudaiye, to succeed Professors Olubunmi Omotesho and Sulaiman Ambali, whose tenures ended in December 2024. A statement issued on Friday by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, announced that the appointments were…
By Elizabeth Adegbesan The Naira today appreciated to N1,660 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,665 per dollar on Thursday. Similarly, the Naira appreciated to N1,531 per dollar in the official foreign exchange market. Data published by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, showed that the exchange rate for Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM)…
A couple escaped death on Wednesday after a container fell on their Lexus Jeep at the Toyota bus stop on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. In a statement on Thursday, the Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, stated that the incident occurred in the evening after a distress call. According to her,…
By Lara Adejoro The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, on Thursday, destroyed fake, adulterated and unregistered foods, drugs, and cosmetic products worth about N1,367,000,000 seized in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The products were destroyed at the Kuje dumpsite in the territory. In a brief remark during the exercise, the Director-General…
By Edward Nnachi An unidentified prospective female member of the National Youth Service Corps was killed in a fatal road accident that happened in Ebonyi State, on Wednesday, January 22, 2024. She was among a group of 12 other prospective corps members conveyed in a 14-seater bus which headed for the NYSC orientation camp in…
By Tunde Oyekola No fewer than 15 lives were reportedly lost in a multiple auto crash involving a trailer and another vehicle in Oko Olowo area of the Ilorin-Jebba Expressway in Kwara State. It was gathered that several other persons sustained varying degrees of injury in the auto crash. According to eyewitness accounts,the accident involved…
The Kuwaiti General Department of Criminal Investigation (GDCI) has arrested two unidentified Nigerians in the Ahmadi Province for allegedly robbing an exchange office and stealing $14,918. They have been charged with the crime. In a statement on Wednesday, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior, as reported by Arab Times Online, confirmed that the suspects were apprehended…
