The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by Uche Okwukwu has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to tender an unreserved apology to the Igbo nation over his recent threat on both social and mainstream media. In a statement on Thursday, signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the Secretary-General Ohanaeze Ndigbo on behalf of Okwukwu, the group said that […]
Residents and businesses located at Olugbede Market, Orelope Abule-Odu in Egbeda, Lagos, have been subjected to power cut by the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) for over a month for refusing to pay outrageous bills and asking for prepaid meter. The step-down transformer purchased by the community was disconnected from the grid on April 29 […]
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said plans to bring down the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government would fail. Speaking at the APC National Secretariat on Thursday in Abuja, during an interactive session with newsmen, Secretary of the APC caretaker/extraordinary convention planning committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe said some disgruntled elements in the country were […]
The Defence Headquarters says some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) “involved in the killing and burning of policemen” in Akwa Ibom have been arrested. Akwa Ibom is one of the states in the southern part of the country where security operatives have been targeted in recent months. The attacks have led to […]
The Bayelsa State Police Command has warned members of the public in the state to steer clear of any form of association with the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (lPOB). The Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Mike Okoli, gave the warning in a statement on Thursday. Okoli said intelligence available to the command […]
Kawu Sumaila, a former aide of President Muhammadu Buhari, says the attacks in the south-east will hinder “right-thinking Nigerians” from supporting an Igbo presidential candidate in 2023. Sumaila accused the elite in the south-east of not speaking out against the atrocities by gunmen in the region. The former aide to the president on national assembly […]
Police in Owerri has arrested one of the suspects that attacked one of its stations in Orji, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bala Elkana, said in a statement that the suspect was arrested in his hideout at Ikeduru Local Government Area of the state following an […]
The former president argued that even though the country is destined to be a land flowing with milk and honey, bad leadership has made it unachievable. He said this on Thursday while receiving a book titled, ‘The Man, The General and The President,’ authored by Femmy Carrena, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested a Nigerian, Charles Onus, for his alleged involvement in diverting $800,000 into prepaid debit cards. The amount translates to about N320 million at the current official rate of N410 per dollar. This comes less than a month after Abidemi Rufai, an aide to Ogun State Governor, Dapo […]
The Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto diocese, Matthew Kukah, has faulted the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for its refusal to declare bandits as a terrorist group. Kukah, in his homily at the burial of Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Bello, which held at Our Lady of Apostle Catholic Church Independence Way, Kaduna, […]
