Beyond the Headlines
A High Court sitting in Ohaukwu, Ebonyi State, on Friday, admitted on bail, the detained Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Timothy Ngwuta. Ngwuta was arrested by police on December 11, 2021, arraigned and imprisoned for alleged promotion of the protracted Effium-Ezza Effium communal clash. The priest, who was detained for twelve days and released on […]
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday dismissed a no-case submission by Victor Aduba, charged along with kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aduba, an ex-soldier and Evans are charged with kidnapping a businessman, Mr Sylvanus Ahamonu, and collecting a $420,000 ransom from his family. Justice […]
Former Zamfara State Governor, Senator Ahmed Yerima, on Friday said President Muhammadu Buhari has given him the go-ahead to join the race for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Senator Yerima, who introduced sharia law in Zamfara state when he was governor, met the president Friday shortly after Friday Jumat prayers […]
By Comrade Emeka Jude Omeh It is no longer a secret affair that some power drunk politicians in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area in Enugu State are wrestling power with their supposed leader, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Executive Governor of Enugu State ahead of the forthcoming PDP Primary elections to internally select […]
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has said gone were the days Northerners felt blackmailed and intimidated by threats of restructuring, secession, break up or break down of Nigeria. The forum in a statement issued by the Secretary General, Murtala Aliyu, said the North had never been opposed to the election of any Nigerian as […]
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Thursday, called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to release the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and all Igbo youths in detention over the agitation for Biafra. Ohanaeze President General, Ambassador George Obiozor, made the call in his opening address […]
The Federal Government says it has completed repair of the damaged track on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line. Engr. Fidet Okhiria, Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), disclosed this in a statement on Thursday In the statement, which Engr. Niyi Ali signed on his behalf, the NRC Managing Director said, “The connection of […]
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday, said he will continue to fight corruption like President Muhammadu Buhari if elected as President in 2023. Although the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is yet to conduct its presidential primary to pick its flagbearer, Akpabio is one of the presidential aspirants under the […]
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Thursday says he has not endorsed any aspirant for the governorship or any other position for the 2023 general election. The governor who disclosed this during the quarterly media interactions in Asaba, said though, politicians were using his name to campaign but the fact remains that he had […]
The main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday, described former President Umaru Yar’Adua as a beloved leader and exceptionally courageous and humble statesman who gave his all and died in the service of his fatherland. In a statement signed late Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP said it “remembers with […]
