The founder and Director, Muslims Rights concern, Prof. Ishaq Akintola has commended President Bola Tinubu for releasing the sum of N90 billion subsidy to support 2024 hajj pilgrims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, insisting that the gesture is met for welfarism. Akintola who made the assertion when he featured on Wednesday April 3rd 2024 Arise...
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‘Refuse burning’ causes explosion at cantonment
The Nigerian Army late late Monday night confirmed a minor explosion within the Nigerian Army (NA) Cantonment in Ikeja, Lagos State. Director Army Public Relations, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu said the incident occurred on a farmland near the Mammy Market within the Cantonment, which was recently cleared and certified free of unexploded ordnances by the...
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Guard sets suspected vandal ablaze in Lagos
A security guard, Agunbiade Adekunle ‘m’, has allegedly set a suspected vandal ablaze in Shonde Street, Itire,l area of Lagos State. The victim was a member of a group of hoodlums caught vandalizing vehicle and handover to Adekunle who lives in the street. Force Public Relations officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi confirmed this on Monday in...
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Tinubu for Senegalese President-elect’s inauguration
President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, for Dakar, Senegal, to attend the inauguration of Senegal’s President-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye. President Tinubu spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale stated that the President’s trip is on the invitation of the Republic of Senegal. President Tinubu, who is the Chairman of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of...
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Ogun teen electrocuted fetching water from well
Tragedy struck at Olomore housing Estate, Abeokuta in Ogun State where a 15-year-old girl, Miracle Ogbonna, was electrocuted by naked electricity cable, which lead to her death. The victim was said to be fetching water when she was tragically electrocuted by a naked Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC cable of the pumping machine imbedded in...
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Police step up search for drowned Ogun swimmer
The Commissioner of Police in Ogun State Command, CP Alamutu Abiodun has deployed rescue crew to recover the corpse of a swimmer, Sunday Ogah who drowned in Eyinwa River tide in the State. Desperate search for the victim body, which is yet-to float ashore since the tragic incident was reported 1200hrs on 30th March 2024...
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Police confirm Easter Day tragedy in Ogun
Unknown gunmen have shot one person dead on Easter late Sunday March 31st 2024 at Somefun Ijeun Tuntun area in Ogun State. Spokesperson for the Nigeria Police Command in the State, SP Omolola Odutola confirmed the incident in a terse statement on Sunday. The victim, was shot in the head by unidentified gunmen in a...
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NDLEA bursts skunk hid in salad, dried groceries
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have thwarted attempt by a Qatar-bound illicit drug trafficker, Chidinma Chinenye Agbazue to export 20 parcels of cannabis sativa weighing 10.70 kilograms from Nigeria. Spokesman of the anti-narcotic Agency, Mr Femi Babafemi said on Sunday in a statement that the cannabis sativa, was said to have...
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Outrage as soldier hacks trader to death in Ondo
Business activities were temporary disrupted on Saturday along Arakale Road and Mobil area of Akure, the Ondo State Capital City where a soldier allegedly stabbed a trader to death. This followed a peaceful protest by traders at the crowded area in reaction to the deceased trader simply identified as Ebuka, who was said to have...
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52-year-old Soyinka’s novel adopted into film
52-year-old novel, ‘The Man Died’ (Prof. Wole Soyinka’s Prison Memoir turned film will be launched at the 90th birthday of the Nobel Laureate in July 2024, Arise Television said. The snippets of the historic movie which captured the intricate parts of the narrative that form an account of the story that will make a fascinating...