Beyond the Headlines
Due to worsening insecurity and fear of attack by bandits, the Federal Government Girls College, Bwari, Abuja, on Friday, instructed parents to pick their children from the school. Earlier this week, a source told FIJ that the military prevented criminal Fulani herdsmen from making entry into Bwari after killing at least eight people in a […]
Iniubong Umoren, the Akwa Ibom job-seeker who was raped and killed a few days ago by a man who had lured her with a fake job interview, has emerged as a top performer in her graduating class in the Department of Philosophy, University of Uyo, Uyo. Miss Umoren, 26, is seventh among the top graduating […]
Gunmen suspected to be members of Indigenous People of Biafra, working in collaboration with the Eastern Security Network on Saturday attacked a Divisional Police Headquarters in Odoro Ikpe in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and killed six persons. It was gathered that the police station was set ablaze and operational vehicles and […]
The Lagos State judicial panel on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses resumed sitting on Saturday with the continuation of the testimony of an EndSARs co-ordinator, Serah Ibrahim. Serah came along with several videos, some of which she said she shot personally with her iPhone. One after the other, she played the videos which […]
The Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu has said he believes in one Nigeria. Akeredolu has therefore urged Nigerians to continue to coexist peacefully and pray for the continuous unity and peace of the nation. The Ondo state governor, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde in Akure said […]
The United States has said there is no plan to relocate its Africa Command from its current base in Germany to Nigeria or any other part of Africa despite the worsening state of insecurity in the region. The US gave the response barely two weeks after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), appealed to […]
Twenty-four hours after refuting allegations of failing to remit the operating surplus of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to the consolidated revenue fund (CFR), Hadiza Bala Usman was suspended as the managing director of the NPA. In a letter dated May 5, 2021, a copy of which was obtained by TheCable, Usman told Ibrahim Gambari, […]
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government has dragged Nigeria 50 years backward due to its “abysmal” performance. Wike alleged that the APC had mismanaged the opportunity Nigerians gave them to make a difference and deserve to be voted out in 2023. Nigerians gave them to make a […]
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has urged the federal government to address the insecurity ravaging the country rather than spending time trying to blackmail anyone who criticises the present administration. The President, CBCN, Augustine O. Akubeze, gave the advice on Friday in a statement titled “Urgent call to the Federal Government to be […]
The family of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, has announced the burial arrangement for his late son, Dare. Adeboye’s family said the funeral rites would begin on Friday, May 9. Dare died on Wednesday in his home in Eket, Akwa Ibom State at the age of 42 […]
