Beyond the Headlines
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with representatives of traditional rulers across the six geopolitical zones, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar. The meeting, which is taking place at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, has in attendance the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ife, the Emir of Kano, Etsu Nupe, Chairman, Imo State Traditional […]
Mob lynch Driver,Conductor Tragedy struck on Tuesday at Oshiri in Onicha local government area of Ebonyi State as five school children of St Michaels Schools, Oshiri were crushed to death by a water tanker. The accident happened at Onu Nworie Egu Oshiri involving a water tanker alledgly belonging to C- Sagas project Nigeria limited .The […]
A Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna presided over by Hon. Justice P. H. Mallong has sentenced a former Registrar of the Court, Mr. Joseph Etefia Udoh to four years imprisonment for laundering the sum of N80 million. Mr. Udoh and his wife Grace Udoh were in December 2019 arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices […]
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has rejected alleged moves to regulate social media in Nigeria. The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Wednesday described it as unconstitutional, anti-people and attempt to silence Nigeria. Mr Ologbondiyan said that the attempt to censor the social media was targeted […]
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci resigned Thursday to face trial in a war crimes court in The Hague, a dramatic downfall for a politician who has dominated the former Serbian province for over a decade. The 52-year-old said he would step down to appear before the court after it confirmed an indictment against him dating back […]
Hundreds of state police and left-wing protesters were locked in a tense standoff in downtown Portland late Wednesday after rampaging anti-Trump groups smashed shop windows a day after the election, prompting the state governor to activate the National Guard. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s office declared a riot and made at least nine arrests, citing “widespread […]
The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has accused the Nigerian army of carrying out a genocide in Oyigbo, Rivers state. At the posthumous birthday anniversary of Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, the late Birafran leader, the group also accused Nyesom Wike, the state governor, of being complicit in the alleged killings. The Nigerian […]
*Presidency asked to retain police in EFCC A lawyer, Wahab Shittu, has raised nine fresh posers for Justice Isa Ayo Salami Judicial Commission of Enquiry probing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), ahead of concluding its assignment. Shittu, who is the lawyer to the commission’s suspended chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, faulted the panel for […]
Amid rumours of the alleged disappearance of male genitals through mystical powers, Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue, on Wednesday, dismissed such rumours as “baseless and the handiwork of mischief makers“. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged claims had led to acts of arson in Daudu in the Guma Local Government Area […]
…Reps threaten to delete new request for partitioning, furniture …Era of estimated billing over — Momoh A melodrama, yesterday, ensued during the presentation and defence of 2021 budget by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, as its Chairman, James Momoh and Accountant could not produce the contract sum for the renovation of the agency’s headquarters […]
