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economy
Economic hardship: Nigerians employ different coping strategies
As the nation’s economy bits unrelentingly, Nigerians are devising different structural adjustment strategies to keep body and soul together, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A cross-section of respondents who spoke with NAN in Ibadan on Friday said they had resorted to rationing their meager resources amidst other coping mechanisms. A public servant, Mrs. Funmi Alli, said she had…
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Crime
Man, 39, docked over alleged tricycle theft
Ibadan, Jan. 22, 2024 (NAN) A 39-year-old man, Loius Kogu, was, on Monday, arraigned before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, for allegedly stealing a tricycle worth N1,500,000. Kogu, whose address was not provided, is charged with theft. The prosecutor, Insp. Femi Omilana, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on December 28, 2023, at about 9.30 p.m. in…
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Featured
Protests rock Ibadan over naira, fuel scarcity
Protesters, in their thousands, on Wednesday, blocked major roads within Ibadan metropolis over the scarcity of fuel, new naira notes and the rejection of the old notes by commercial banks and commercial outlets. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protests, which were still spreading, affected some areas like Iwo Road, Bodija, Mokola, Eleyele/Eruwa Road, Gbopa, Ologuneru,…
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Crime
EFCC arrests 2 herbalists, 24 others for alleged cybercrime
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Command in Oyo, has arrested 26 people, including two herbalists for alleged cybercrime. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the commission’s Spokesperson made the disclosure in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Friday. Uwujaren said that the two self-acclaimed herbalists were arrested on Friday at Soka area of…
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Crime
Police tighten security as fresh crisis claim lives in Ibadan
The gang war which started in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Wednesday reportedly claimed more lives early Friday morning. Some youths from Inalende, together with their counterparts from Abebi, were said to have joined forces to kill two people from Oopo area. It learnt that a gang in Oopo which suffered losses during the Thursday attack had reportedly vowed revenge. Our…
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NEWS
Bolt Drivers In Ibadan Protest Platform’s 5% Increase In Commission
Drivers of the ride-hailing app, Bolt, on Tuesday, protested unfair pricing, incessant blocking of drivers among other grievances. Scores of drivers converged on the Molete office of the organisation where they lamented the decision of Bolt to increase its commission from 15 percent to 20 percent without increasing fare rates in light of the increase in fuel price and present…
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Crime
Scavenger admits stealing grinding plates in Ibadan
A scavenger, Azeez Toheeb, on Thursday admitted stealing 15 pieces of grinding plates before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, The Magistrate, Mrs I. O. Osho, will on Jan. 19 review the facts of the case and sentence the 18-year-old. Osho directed that the defendant should be kept at the Omi-Adio Police Station till then. The News Agency of…
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Crime
EFCC arrests suspected internet fraudsters with mini coffin
The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested six suspected internet fraudsters. This is contained in a statement issued by the commission’s acting spokesperson, Tony Orilade, and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspects, made up of five males and a female, were…
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Arts & Culture
My husband is serial liar, woman tells court
A mother of two, Alimot Idris, on Tuesday, prayed a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her eight-year-old marriage to her husband, Idris, whom she described as a liar. Alimot, a trader, told the court that her husband was not straightforward in his dealings with her. “When I had my second pregnancy, his family came to my house one…
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Arts & Culture
”I made a terrible mistake marrying my husband” – Woman tells court.
A mother of two, Ariyike Adeyemi, told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan that she made a terrible mistake marrying her husband, Adekunle. In her petition, Ariyike said:”Adekunle beats me. I made a terrible mistake by marrying him 12 years ago. ”I have tolerated him and done my duties to make him happy. I have stopped living with him because…
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Crime
EFCC arrests 89 youths at Ibadan club
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested 89 suspected internet fraudsters at the popular Club 360 located on the Akala Expressway, Oluyole Extension in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. According to the Commission, in preparation for the late-night operation which took place over the weekend, officers of the EFCC had carried out a…
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NEWS
We’ll boost tourism in 2020 – Ibadan Museum
The Curator, National Museum of Unity, Ibadan, Dr Amos Olorunnipa, has reiterated the museum’s commitment to improving galleries and findings and the training more staffers in 2020 to boost tourism in Nigeria. Olorunnipa talked with NAN in Ibadan on Tuesday. He said that there were plans to establish a zoological garden within the museum’s premises for the conservation of some…
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NEWS
UCH inaugurates N127m intensive care unit
The Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, on Monday, inaugurated a multi-million naira Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the hospital. Inaugurating the N127m project situated at the premises of the tertiary hospital in Inadan, Otegbayo said the facilities in the unit would help the hospital to take care of more critically ill patients. “We are…
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News
Suleiman Hashimu, Lagos to Abuja trekker meets Buhari in Abuja
More excitement filled the air around the presidential campaign headquarters of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Abuja late Friday evening as Mr. Suleiman Hashimu, the Lagos to Abuja trekker finally met with the president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari.Hashimu had made a personal promise in 2013 that should Buhari contest and win the 2015 presidential elections, he would trek from Lagos…
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