Shittu Adebayo narrowly escaped a kidnap attempt in February. The 40-year-old signage writer was returning from work around 8 p.m. when his car came under gunfire less than 200 metres to his house. The house is in an estate in Pegi, a community in Kuje area council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Mr Adebayo […]
Ajibola Basiru, senate spokesperson, says some of those calling for the division of Nigeria will become campaign managers for opposition parties during the 2023 elections. Basiru, lawmaker representing Osun central, stated this on Monday, when he featured on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme. In recent weeks, there have been calls for secession, with proponents […]
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday proceed to London, the United Kingdom for a routine medical check-up. This was announced in a statement issued on Monday night by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. Before departing the country for the UK, President Buhari would meet with the security chiefs […]
Aggrieved students of Ejioku Secondary School, Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State went on rampage on Monday as a truck rammed into a commercial motorcycle and killed four students and an okada rider. It was learnt that the students were on their way to school on board a motorcycle when the truck crushed them […]
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has declared Rochas Foundation as being moribund few months after its controversial bid to take over a university registered in imo State government’s name. A statement by a group of concerned Imo Citizens said the information they obtained from the Corporate Affairs Commission revealed that the foundation is moribund contrary […]
The death toll in the Myanmar military’s crackdown on protesters has passed 500, as armed rebel groups on Tuesday threatened the junta with retaliation if the bloodshed does not stop. World powers have ramped up their condemnation of the military’s campaign against the anti-coup movement that is demanding the restoration of the elected government and […]
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has canvassed unity among all strata of Igbo society as a means of attaining political relevance in 2023. He said disunity, selfishness and antagonism amongst Igbo were antithesis to political relevance being sought by the people in Nigeria. In his remarks during the Ohanaeze Ndigbo meeting which heid in […]
Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Abubakar Gumi, has said he is not a negotiator for bandits. Gumi, who had on several occasions taken message of peace to bandits in the forests of Kaduna, Zamfara and Niger state, stated this in Kaduna on Monday while playing host to the 8th Assembly Senator of Kaduna Central, Shehu […]
GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi, yesterday, ordered the immediate suspension of all political office holders from Ezza Effium/ Effium communities in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state. Those suspended were the political office holders that were absent during the security meeting convened to find lasting solution to the lingering crisis. The governor also directed […]
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi on Monday said that the sponsors of insurgency in the Northeast geo-political zone are also behind banditry in the Northwest and kidnapping in the Southwest. The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) spoke with reporters in Abuja on National security, shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the […]
