The All Progressives Congress (APC) has responded to a communique issued by governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on recent security incidents recorded in some parts of the country. The PDP leaders have previously expressed concerns over the worrisome issues of insecurity in the country. In a statement signed by the National Secretary of […]
Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti state, has urged youths eyeing relocation to reconsider their plans and stay back to help make Nigeria a better place. Fayemi also said youths should organise themselves on how to “kick out” the All Progressives Congress (APC) from office in 2023 if they are not satisfied with its governance style. […]
Eight persons died in an accident on Osogbo-Ibadan road on Saturday when a trailer fell from a flyover bridge. The trailer which carried kegs of palm oil and 61 males lost control while ascending the bridge. The men of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, policemen and officials of the Osun State […]
Human Right activist and lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba, has asked Nigerians to forget about devolution of power for now and tackle poverty. This is just as he said the governors have a huge role to play in birthing a new Nigeria. Speaking at The Platform with the theme: IS DEVOLUTION OF POWER SOLUTION TO NIGERIA’S PROBLEM? […]
A boy kidnapped from his parent’s home in a Kaduna suburb has been found dead, seven days after he was taken and N5 million ransom paid for his release. Muhammad Kabir, taken from Badarawa suburb of Kaduna North local government area, is believed to have been killed by his kidnappers. His body was found in […]
Two young men have been in detention for over two months at the the Anti-cultism unit of the Nigeria Police in Enugu State without the knowledge of their family members, Ifeanyi Onuorah, a Computer Science graduate of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu State, has said after regaining freedom from detention. According to […]
. Two police officers were killed on Saturday by some unknown gunmen who attacked a police facility in Ikono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria’s South-south. A female police officer was also injured in the attack, while five vehicles parked at the station’s premises were set ablaze, according to a statement from the […]
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) have declared May 30th, a sit-at-home day in commemoration of this year’s Biafra Day celebration. This was contained in a statement signed by the group’s National Director of Information, Comrade Samuel Edeson and made available to our correspondent. The statement read in part: […]
There was tension in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Saturday, as security operatives arrested five agitators of the Yoruba nation who defied the police ban on a mass rally in the state capital. Among those arrested was Zannu Williams, a young man who wore a traditional regalia. The Police Command had barred the agitators from the […]
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Education, Dr. Shehu Makarfi, on Thursday confirmed that the state has increased tuition fees across all state-owned tertiary institutions. The institutions are Kaduna State University; Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria; Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya; Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences, Makarfi; and Kaduna State College of Nursing and […]
