Police arrest students for beating up teacher in Ogun State

Ten teenage students who attacked their teacher for stopping one of them from cheating during an examination have been arrested, the police have said. The students are from Isanbi Comprehensive High School, Ilisan-Remo, Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State, and the teacher was identified as Kolawole Shonuga. According to reports, Shonuga, last Tuesday, caught one 18-year-old Ashimi Adebanjo cheating while invigilating an examination for the SS1 Art Class, and seized his paper. Annoyed for...

Davido succumbs to pressure from Muslims, deletes controversial video

Nigerian singer Davido has deleted a video he shared on his Twitter page on Friday which brought him under heavy criticism from the Muslim community. The video was a snippet of the visuals for “Jaye Lo”, the first single by his newly-signed artist, Logos Olori. The extract shows Muslims observing prayers outside a mosque while Lagos Olori sits on the roof of the mosque singing. After Davido tweeted to promote the song, several Muslims condemned...

Former housemates compete for N120m as BBNaija Season 8 begins

Former housemates of the Big Brother Naija, BBNaija, reality TV show is back for an “All-Star” edition to battle for a cash prize of N120 million. The eighth edition of BBNaija began on Sunday night and 20 housemates were unveiled. The housemates are the fan favourites from the previous seasons of the reality TV show excluding the first edition. The housemates were drawn from Season 2 (See Gobe), Season 3 (Double Wahala), Season 4 (Pepper...

UNILAG increases school fees to over N100,000 due to ‘prevailing economic realities’

New and returning students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, will be paying over N100,000 as school fees effective the first semester of the 2023/24 session, The West African Pilot News has learned. The increment in fees was proposed on Thursday at a meeting between the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, and the representatives of the non-teaching unions of the institution comprising of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, National Association...

Akwa Ibom Govt. partners with Innoson for transportation palliatives

The people of Akwa Ibom State might be getting free transportation services as succour to the effects of the hike in the price of petrol courtesy of Governor Umo Eno’s administration. This is coming against the backdrop of a partnership between the Akwa Ibom State Government and Nigeria’s first indigenous automobile manufacturing company, Innoson Vehicles. Announcing the partnership on Thursday, Governor Eno said that it “aims to provide palliatives, especially in transportation for our citizens...

Davido’s foundation donates N237 million to 424 orphanages

David Adeleke Foundation, DAF, has donated N237 million to various orphanages across Nigeria. The founder of the foundation, David Adeleke, the Nigerian singer better known as Davido, announced the donation on his various social media pages on Thursday. Adeleke said the DAF distributed the funds to 424 orphanages with 13,818 child beneficiaries. The singer said the donated sum was contributions from various individuals and corporations which the foundation reached out to support. “In October 2022,...

Regina Daniels appointed as social secretary of Senators’ wives association

Nollywood actress Regina Daniels has been appointed as the social secretary of the 10th Senators’ Wives Association of Nigeria, SWAN. The actress disclosed this via an Instagram post on Wednesday. Ned Nwoko, her husband, is representing Delta North in the Senate. The wives of the senators had their first inaugural meeting, hosted by Ekaette Akpabio, the wife of the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday. Daniels said that the women convened the meeting to discuss...

Fuel subsidy removal: FG will review workers’ salary – Akpabio

Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the President of the Senate, has said that the federal government will review the salaries of workers as a move towards cushioning the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy. Akpabio disclosed this when he received the Governor of Ekiti State, Abiodun Oyebanji and members of the National Assembly from the State on Wednesday. He noted that the removal of fuel subsidy by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration was to address...

NYSC DG urges corps members to embrace vocational skills

The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed has advised serving corps members to acquire vocational skills through the scheme’s skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development, SAED, programme. The DG made the admonition in his address to corps members at the Katsina State orientation camp as well as the Borno State orientation camp on Sunday. He said the SAED in-camp training for corps members was designed to expose them to entrepreneurship...

Intersociety demands the removal of Anambra CP Aderemi Adeoy

Claims  CP lacks “professional emptiness in matters of skillful, detailed criminal investigations.” The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has demanded the immediate redeployment or removal of the new commissioner of police, CP, in Anambra State, Aderemi Adeoye. The West African Pilot earlier reported that the new CP, last Wednesday, charged criminals in the State to leave immediately or turn a leaf as the Anambra State Police Command is left with...

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