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Photos: Drama as bride flees wedding after discovering that groom lied to her Tuesday, May 7, 2019 2:00 am The bride running away: Photo: iharare.com It was drama galore as a Nigerian bride fled fled the wedding ceremony in the church after discovering that the bridegroom lied to her that he worked in an oil company. Friends and well wishers chased after her begging her to return to no avail, leaving the groom stranded.  Bride running away: Photo: iharare.com Bride running away: Photo: iharare.com

Obafemi Awolowo University The Osun State Police command has confirmed the release of Prof Yinka Adegbehingbe, a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife who was abducted by gunmen at Apomu town along Ife-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday. Spokesperson for the Police Command Mrs. Folasade Odoro confirmed the release of the abducted lecturer on Monday evening. The Public Relations Officer of OAU, Abiodun Olarewaju also confirmed that the lecturer was on the way to the campus in the company of security agencies, to be reunited with his family. Also, Ooni of Ife’s media aide, Moses Olafare, in a short release sent to reporters said: “Having spoken to his wife a couple of minutes ago, I feel so glad to break the good news that Prof Yinka Adegbehingbe of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, who was yesterday (Sunday) kidnapped along Ibadan road around Ikoyi-Apomu axis has been released and now in the proper care of the Nigeri...

Tunde Fowler: FIRS boss The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says the country’s taxpayers will soon increase to 45 million. Mr Wahab Gbadamosi, the Head, Communications and SERVICOM Department, in a statement in Abuja on Monday said the Executive Secretary, Joint Tax Board (JTB), Mr Oseni Elamah, disclosed this at the presentation of the new Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) Registration System report. The report was presented to the Executive Chairman of FIRS, Babatunde Fowler, who is also the Chairman of the JTB. Elama said that as at December, 2018, Nigeria’s tax payers data base expanded from 20 million to 35 million. He said the ongoing integration of database would give the nation a total of 45 million individual and corporate taxpayers. “JTB has completed the building of a new TIN Registration System which is an integration of TIN numbers of various organisations in Nigeria. “The growth of the taxpayers’ database is a major flank of the goals of the JTB i...

Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology on Monday in Indiogbu community in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi said the Federal Government would complete all ongoing projects. The minister gave the assurance during a facility visit to the N500 million Technology Incubation Centre (TIC) located at Indiogbu. Onu, addressing a crowd of jubilant supporters who trooped out to welcome him and his encourage, assured that the project would bring immense development and create job opportunities in the area. He assured that work on the project would continue even after the end of the first tenure of the present administration. “People will be saying that the first term of the President Muhammadu Buhari will soon be coming to an end and that the project will stop and all that; but it doesn’t really matter because we don’t operate that way. “All the projects that I met as a minister, I have been completing them; so, it doesn’t really matter because whoever becomes the ne...

The Nigeria police force has defended the detention of Ademola Adeleke, lawmaker representing Osun west senatorial district. Speaking with ONE WORD on Monday, Frank Mba, force spokesman, said Adeleke was detained in connection with ongoing criminal investigations against him. ONE WORD had reported how the police detained Adeleke, who was candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2018 governorship election in Osun state. The senator had honoured an invitation at the force headquarters in Abuja before he was detained. Mba told ONE WORD Adeleke will be charged to court on Tuesday. He said: “Senator Adeleke is currently in police custody. He was taken into custody in the evening of today 6th May, 2019 in connection with ongoing criminal investigations touching on his person. “Meanwhile, in the best tradition of natural justice and fair hearing, he has already been served with the relevant charge sheet containing his alleged offences in the presence of his Attorn...

Meghan Markle The arrival on Monday of their first child a “very healthy” boy crowns the whirlwind love story of Prince Harry and his wife Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, coming less than three years since they first met. Meghan Markle It was love at first sight for both parties, who quickly sensed their brief blind date could blossom. They were set up by a mutual friend when US actress Meghan Markle was passing through London in July 2016. The couple knew little about each other and the speed of the relationship surprised them both. “The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly quickly was a confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned. Everything was just perfect,” Harry said. Within two years, they tied the knot at Windsor Castle, sealing a relationship that rapidly grew out of the media spotlight — and survived when it went public in explosive fashion. When the couple first met, she was 34 and a divorcee of three years; he 31 with a few foundered relat...

The suspect Adejoke Adeleye /Abeokuta A 28-year old man, Oni Olohunwa has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for culpable homicide. The suspect was arrested following a report by Wasiu Raheem who took the stabbed victim to the Ogijo Police Station. According to Raheem, the suspect and the victim were both attending a party, but the victim got drunk and started misbehaving. While the suspect was trying to caution him, an argument ensued between them and the suspect brought out a knife with which he stabbed the deceased in the chest and back. On the strength of the report, the DPO Ogijo Division CSP Baba Muhammed detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested. Meanwhile, the victim, Baraka Taiwo was rushed to a nearby hospital but died while receiving treatment. His corpse has been deposited at OOUTH Sagamu for post mortem examination. The Ogun State Commissioner of Police Bashir Makama has ordered the immediate transfer ...