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The Organising Secretary of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lagos State Council, Toba Ajiboye, popularly known as Ijaya, has d!ed after gunmen attacked and shot him in Lagos.Ajiboye was reportedly returning home on Sunday night, July 13, from his childhood community in Fadeyi when he was attacked by the gunmen.The assailants allegedly intercepted his vehicle along the Ikorodu Road corridor before opening fire, leaving the car with several bullet holes.Sources familiar with the incident said Toba and other occupants of the vehicle sustained bullet wounds and survived the attack.

The Nigerian Senate has blasted the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, for calling for a United Nations-led probe into the abduction of pupils and teachers from Oriire Local Government Area of the state.Speaking at the plenary on Tuesday, July 14, the Senate asked the governor to stop trivialising a very serious and traumatic matter.Recall that Gov Makinde, in a statewide broadcast on Monday, July 13, called on the United Nations and other international human rights and accountability bodies to investigate the circumstances surrounding the abduction.Speaking during Senate plenary today, Senator Adams Oshiomole described Governor Makinde’s demand for UN investigation as “not statesmanly and politics taken too far”.The former Edo governor urged the Senate to call on Makinde to...

In a surprising legislative shift, the House of Representatives has withdrawn its self-sponsored constitutional amendment bill aimed at establishing state police across Nigeria.The decision, made during Tuesday's plenary session, July 14, clears the path for lawmakers to focus entirely on a separate, executive-backed State Police Bill forwarded by the presidency.Following the withdrawal of its own draft, the Green Chamber immediately fast-tracked the executive's proposal to ensure the momentum on decentralized policing remains intact.The executive-sponsored bill successfully scaled both its first and second readings during Tuesday's sitting. Following its second reading, the bill was referred to the House Committee on Constitutional Review for further legislative input, public hearings, an...

Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man accused of forging government appointment letters and parading himself as Director-General of a non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) and Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), says he fears for his life, and he is not in any way hiding from law enforcement agents.While speaking on Channels TV on Monday night July 13, Adeyemi said “I’m ready to show my face. I’m not hiding. I’m only fearing for my life because I have it on good authority that my life is in danger,” he said on the current affairs programme, alleging threats to his life. There have been several attempts on my life,” Adeyemi said.Adeyemi also alleged that there had been multiple attempts on his life but did not disclose further detai...

Leader of the UK Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has urged the Labour government to retain its proposed 10-year qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain (ILR), insisting that temporary work visas should not automatically lead to permanent settlement in Britain.Badenoch made the call in a post on her X handle while releasing a letter addressed to the UK’s Home Secretary, in which she criticised efforts by some Labour lawmakers to dilute the government’s planned immigration reforms.“People who come to Britain on temporary work visas should not automatically be able to stay forever,” she wrote.“This Labour government was right to make that harder. Now their MPs want them to U-turn.Conservatives will back Labour’s original plan to help get it through Parliament.”In the letter, joint...

A coalition of retired military personnel has demanded the immediate implementation of the approved ₦250,000 minimum wage for serving soldiers. The veterans have accused the Federal Government of deliberately stalling the execution of a critical pay adjustment bill that was passed by the National Assembly and formally assented to by President Bola Tinubu.The confrontation took place during an emergency veterans' retreat attended by over 70 retired service members at the Armed Forces Headquarters Command Mess 1 in Abuja on Monday, July 13.The retired officers expressed deep frustration over what they describe as a sudden U-turn by defense authorities regarding the agreed pay scale. According to the veterans, the National Assembly reviewed regional military pay scales in October 2025 and dis...