Residents of lsokun area of lgangan, in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, were thrown into another confusion, as the Fulani herdsmen allegedly macheted a retired school principal, Mr. Modede Ojedokun, on his farm on Saturday afternoon. As of the time of filing this report, he had been admitted at a private hospital […]
Some analysts have detailed how a Boko Haram video claiming to have brought down a fighter jet was doctored. The jet, NAF 475, went off the radar on Wednesday while on a mission to provide support to ground troops fighting Boko Haram. The whereabouts of the two pilots remain known, as the Nigerian air force […]
Three community leaders have been missing for over a week following an attack in Southern Kaduna‘s Zangon Kataf area, a development that came atop a series of violent events that have claimed multiple lives and provoked fears since February. PREMIUM TIMES‘ findings, based on disclosures by official and community sources, revealed that a Fulani delegation […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family, friends and acquaintances of Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) on Saturday, recalled that Odumakin was also spokesman to the then Gen Buhari in 2011 when he ran for President on […]
The largest auto parts market in Ibadan, Araromi market at Agodi Gate, has been gutted by fire leaving several shops and properties destroyed. Traders wailed as the fire which started in the early hours of Saturday raged on for many hours. The distressed traders were said to have called the attention of the Oyo State […]
Records from Zamfara state show that more than 100,000 people were displaced from their ancestral homes while 2,619 people were killed by bandits between 2011 and 2019 in the state, the commissioner of information in Zamfara state, Hon Ibrahim Magaji Dosara has said, Vanguard reports. “This is in addition to the One Thousand One hundred […]
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed the chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Nasarawa State, Mohammed Hussain, at Garaku Market Area of Kokona Local Government Area of the state. The bandits also murdered one Mohammed Umar, the chairman, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in the Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. […]
The chairman of Nsukka Local Government Area, Barr. Ibeziako Ugwueze, Saturday debunked social media reports alleging that there was gun duel between personnel of Nigeria Army and a team of Eastern Security Network, ESN, in his local government on Thursday. In a statement the council boss issued on Friday, he described the development as fake […]
Yinka Odumakin, National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, is dead, The PUNCH has learnt. He died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital after a brief illness. His wife, Mrs Joe Okei-Odumakin, confirmed this to The PUNCH on Saturday. The Afenifere spokesman died at LASUTH Covid Isolation Centre. Married to a fellow rights […]
THE entire five South Eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo appear to be boiling and there is tension in most communities, no thanks to the renewed insecurity challenges in the zone. Since the beginning of 2021, there had been bloodbath in most of the states and there appears to be no solution […]
