Social media platform, Twitter says it has “established a legal entity in Nigeria”, months after it agreed to conditions set out by the Nigerian Government for its service to be restored in the country. The Nigerian Government had suspended the microblogging site in June last year after a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari, that […]
The Military High Command says its troops have killed a prominent Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) Commander, Abubakar Dan-Buduma and 62 other terrorists. It also said the troops also arrested 79 others and rescued 179 kidnapped victims across the North West within three weeks. The spokesman for the military, Maj.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, […]
A Makurdi High Court in Benue State has acquitted Andrew Ogbuja, a lecturer at the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, accused of raping and causing the death of Ochanya Ogbanje, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, in 2018. Justice Augustine Ityonyiman acquitted Ogbuja of the charges filed against him on Wednesday while delivering judgment on the case at […]
Chief Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, has said he is not a drug baron as is being insinuated on some online media platforms. In a statement, yesterday, Cubana warned those using his picture to illustrate drug baron reports to desist from doing so or prepare to face legal action. Cubana insisted that […]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, has asked delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos to be impartial when choosing who to vote for during the party’s presidential primary. Amaechi said this on Thursday during a meeting with the APC delegates in Lagos state. On April 9, the minister declared his intention to […]
Following the explosion that killed over 110 people at an illegal oil refinery, last Friday in Abaezi community in Ohaji/Egbema local government of Imo State, a cross-section of leaders of oil communities in Imo, yesterday proffered solutions on how to stop the over hundred and fifty illegal oil refineries in the oil-producing communities. They […]
Despite the pronouncement by Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja, the Department of State Services has not allowed the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to change his clothes, while he was also facing starvation, head of his legal team and human rights activist, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the theft of a huge amount of money at its National Secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday. Daily Trust had reported how a party official from Enugu raised the alarm that he was robbed of $50,000 at the ruling party’s headquarters. The incident happened barely 24 hours […]
Suspected cultists wielding guns and other dangerous weapons disrupted a meeting that was scheduled to be held between the Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, and tricycle operators, on Thursday. It was gathered that the incident happened at the Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka. The tricycle operators had gathered to thank the governor for the […]
The Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District, Stella Oduah, has announced her defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. Senator Oduah’s defection was completed on Wednesday, April 28, after facing a screening committee at the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of PDP. After undergoing the screening successfully, and […]
