Bob Lee, one of the people who co-founded Cash App, tragically lost his life following a fatal stabbing in Northern California. The Tech Exec Was Visiting San Francisco ‘For A Quick Visit’ According to NBC Bay Area, the 43-year-old was attacked on Tuesday morning in San Francisco. Reporter Scott McGrew points out that people close … Read more
A member of the San Diego Zoo’s African penguin colony has been fitted with orthopedic footwear to help it deal with a degenerative foot condition. The 4-year-old penguin named Lucas has lesions on his feet due to a chronic condition known as bumblefoot, which covers a range of avian foot problems, the San Diego Wildlife … Read more
SAN DIEGO — An aardvark cub born at the San Diego Zoo is doing well and developing quickly, according to wildlife specialists. The female cub was born May 10 and will nurse from her mother, Zola, for about six months, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said this week in announcing the zoo’s first aardvark … Read more
HausaDrop.Com Mahaifin almajirin nan da aka yi wa tabbai kaca-kaca da bulala a jiki ya ce bai ma san cewa dansa yana Kano ba sai bayan da ya kalli bidiyonsa a Facebook. Almajirin, wanda ma’aikacin gidan rediyon Freedom, Nasiru Salisu Zango ya sanya bidiyonsa a daren ranar Lahadi ya bayyana cewa malaminsa ne ya ke … Read more
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the bills for the creation of two universities in the state – Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) and Lagos State University of Science and Technology. Mr Sanwo-Olu assented to the bills on Wednesday at the Lagos House, Marina in the presence of his special adviser on education, … Read more
Victor Osibodu A Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned till March 17 to begin hearing of Ecobank Nigeria Limited’s N8,701,770,328.83 dispute with a businessman, Victor Osibodu and his firm, Vigeo Limited. Victor is the husband of Funke Osibodu, a former managing director of Ecobank Nigeria, a former top Group Executive of the Ecobank Group … Read more
Tinubu The Chicago State University has confirmed that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu attended the university. Tinubu’s academic qualification has been a source of controversy for many years. A recent viral article alleged that all the schools Tinubu claimed to have attended had disowned him. “Mr Tinubu did attend our university, … Read more
Tunde Ayeni For highly controversial Nigerian businessman, John Olatunde Ayeni, popularly known as Tunde Ayeni, it’s been one day, one trouble. The latest in the plethora of his travails is that he has lost another company, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) Limited, a DisCo he purchased in 2013, to the Nigerian government, six years after … Read more
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ministry Of Petroleum Resources and National Petroleum Investment & Management Respondent Services (NAPIMS) from allocating crude oil to Addax Oil Exploration Plc. Justice Tijjani Ringim held that the crude is from that explored /produced from OMLS 123, 124, 126 and … Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another storm pushed into California on Wednesday as the state cleaned up from a powerful weather system that coated mountains with much-needed snow and set rainfall records in the drought-stricken state. The new storm was expected to impact Northern California with widespread rain, gusty winds and snowfall in coastal mountains and … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is exempting San Francisco from a rule that takes effect Wednesday requiring all people to wear masks indoors in a bid to contain a troubling rise in new coronavirus cases. San Francisco will continue to allow fully vaccinated people to remove their masks in gyms and workplaces while its overall … Read more
The Supreme Court has distanced itself from a viral list said to be the names of lawyers penciled down to be conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) this year. Reacting to the list which has gone viral, the Director of Press and Information at the Supreme Court, Festus Akande labelled … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has made a u-turn on a suit seeking to sack Zamfara Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mahadi Aliyu Gusau over alleged unlawful defection. Naija News reports that Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle had dumped the nations’s opposition party to join the rulling party, the All Progressive Congress, APC. PDP in a suit at … Read more
As the seven-day ultimatum Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, issued herdsmen occupying Ondo state forests expires tomorrow, the National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo has declared that no power remove Fulani herdsmen from the state’s forests.In an interview with VINCENT KALU, the Miyetti Allah leader stressed that their people have settled there … Read more
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) on Friday elevated 72 lawyers to the Senior Advocate cadre. A statement by Dr. Festus Akande, for the committee secretary, said it was the highest number ever. The committee had shortlisted 137 candidates, both at advocate filtration stages and academic pre-qualification exercise, for the conferment. The successful candidates comprise … Read more
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Emeka Ozoani, has lauded a court ruling which upheld the joining of Exxon Mobil Corporation in a suit challenging alleged unlawful retirement of Paul Arinze, an executive of Mobil Producing Nigeria. Ozoani, Arinze’s counsel, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that the development confirms that Exxon … Read more
Lawyers in the country have begun a move to strip the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami of his Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, title. This is following Malami’s amendment to the rules of professional conduct for legal practitioners (RPC), 2007. The AGF is said to have removed the requirement for … Read more