…Driving under the influence of alcohol attracts N100,000 fine or two years imprisonment or both The Senate has passed the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2026, significantly increasing penalties for traffic offences, including imposing a N50,000 fine on anyone caught hawking,…
The Oyo State Government has said the two surveillance aircraft procured to strengthen security operations across the state will arrive before the end of July after delays caused by the manufacturing and assembly process in China. The Commissioner for Information, Prince Dotun Oyelade, disclosed this in a…
Makinde’s call for UN probe of Oyo abduction is patriotic: We will miss the point when, inebriated on the loud applause the successful rescue has engendered, we fail to ask the critical question: what happened? That is what Makinde did. His is not a political question. It is a question that tends to address the…
It is hard to think of a fair-minded Nigerian who would oppose Governor Seyi Makinde’s call for a UN-backed investigation into the Oriire abduction. Innocent schoolchildren were abducted and made to watch the decapitation of two of their teachers. They were kept in dehumanising conditions for nearly two…