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Western Post’s Lagos State Government House Correspondent, Adeola Ogunrinde, is now officially an author with Fairlight Books UK after signing a publishing contract with the publishing house. Adeola thus becomes Nigeria’s first author to be published by Fairlight books , […]

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, adjourned till December 19, 2023 further hearing in the alleged N6bn fraud trial involving Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha (now at large). Mompha, alongside his company, […]

Kannywood actress, Hadiza Aliyu, known as Hadiza Gabon, on Wednesday dragged one Bala Musa, a civil servant, to a Magistrates’ court sitting at Daura road, Kaduna over alleged defamation of character. The actress, who spoke through her counsel, Mr. Mubarak […]

The Senate President Godswill Akpabio has sworn-in Mrs Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as Senator representing Kogi Central after a long drawn legal battle. The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Monday, affirmed Akpoti-Uduaghan, of the Peoples Democratic Party, was the duly elected […]

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday released 58 out of 69 students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, earlier arrested for suspected internet fraud. Earlier in the day, the anti-graft agency arrested the students EFCC in a […]

Zenith Bank Plc has announced its unaudited results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2023, recording a remarkable triple-digit growth of 114% from N620.6 billion reported in Q3 2022 to N1.33 trillion in Q3 2023. This performance demonstrates the […]

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede has directed that sting operations at night time be stopped in all the Commands of the commission. This is in line with the newly-reviewed procedures on arrest […]

The Lagos State Government has released traffic advisory as two ramps on Third Mainland Bridge will be closed for repair for five weeks by the Federal Government. The ramps to be shut for five weeks are the Oworonshoki-Adekunle and Lagos […]

The Nigerian naira appreciated against the dollar on Wednesday, 1st November 2023, closing at N786.02/$1 at the official market. This represents a 3.73% increase from the N815.32/$1 recorded on the previous day. The intraday high recorded was N1101.00/$1, while the […]

The “anti-competitive practices” of big tech firms pose an “existential threat” to UK journalism, while the risks from AI-generated misinformation are “greater than ever before”, editors have warned. A poll by the News Media Association, a trade body for the […]