A yoghurt seller, identified simply as Jumoke, has been killed by bullets reportedly fired by a security operative dispersing Yoruba Nation agitators at Ojota, Lagos State. Our correspondent, who sighted the girl’s corpse, observed that bullets had ripped open the victim’s stomach. She is said to be 14 years old. She was reportedly displaying drinks […]
A secondary school teacher in Jigawa is under investigation for raping a female student in school, police have said. Salisu Bello, 30, of Shuwarin village in Kiyawa council area and teaching at GSS Shuwarin reportedly lured the victim, a 19 year-old student into one of the toilets and sexually abused her. A secondary school teacher […]
Despite the heavy presence of armed policemen around Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota, Lagos, agitators of the Yoruba nation on Saturday gathered at the park. Chanting different songs of freedom and flying their flags, the protesters said the nation is bleeding and they need Oodua Nation. The agitators insist that it is time to have a […]
The Federal Government is scaling up its National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) with 5 million additional pupils to the 9 million it is currently feeding. Sadiya Farouk, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, disclosed this when she led a team on a courtesy visit to Ahmed Matane, Secretary to the Niger State […]
A former Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has called for a power shift to the southern part of Nigeria in 2023. Shettima made the call in Abuja on Friday at the public presentation of the book titled ‘Standing for the Truth with Courage.’ The book was written by Prof. Emeritus Njidda Gadzama, who is the […]
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has challenged the Federal Government to also arrest members of armed Fulani groups for carrying out attacks on farming communities in parts of the country. Ortom said such a move is imperative even as the country’s food sufficiency policy is currently being threatened by the willful killings across the […]
THE Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has described the perception of the pan-Northern sociopolitical organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on restructuring as faulty and unprogressive, saying the Middle Belt people are on the side of the South on the question of tidying up the affairs of Nigeria. The ACF had, at a meeting with Northern House […]
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has revealed why he ‘secretly’ withdrew his seven-year-old son, Abubakar Al-Sadiq El-Rufai, from Kaduna Capital school. Last year, the governor dramatically enrolled him in one of northern Nigeria’s oldest public schools. But Daily Trust had reported how El-Rufai quietly withdrew his son. Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser on Media and […]
THE Zamfara State Police Command has arrested two secondary school students for allegedly planning to kidnap their principal and kill their colleagues. The two arrested students from two separate schools were said to have sent threat messages to their respective principals demanding payment of millions of naira. While one of them threatened to kidnap his […]
The National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, His Eminence, Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, yesterday said that the emergence of Hope Uzodimma as Imo state governor, could only be possible by God’s making. This was Ayokunle’s statement while delivering his homily at the Imo prayer summit for peace, held at Heroes Square in Owerri. […]
