The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, told the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Police and their sister security agencies to desist from linking IPOB and Eastern Security Network, ESN, with the insecurity going on in the southeast, particularly the criminal activities going on in Ukpor Nnewi and other towns in Nnewi South Local Government […]
Abdullahi Shinkafi, special adviser on intergovernmental affairs to the governor of Zamfara, says the state’s assembly has passed a bill prescribing death penalty for all banditry-related offences. “Today, the governor is going to sign into law death penalty for kidnappers, informants and any other banditry-related issues,” he said. “The house of assembly, yesterday in […]
Former Presidential aspirant of the African Democratic Congress, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has stated that he has no plans to join another party to contest political position ahead of the 2023 general elections. The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria made this known in a statement he signed on Monday, which was […]
The Senate on Tuesday declared the resignation of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad won’t stop its probe of corruption allegations against him by Justices of the apex court. The resolution of the Red Chamber followed a motion by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal […]
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, lost the move to regain freedom. Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court rejected Kanu’s application seeking to grant him bail. The IPOB leader sought the court’s permission to discharge the earlier order revoking his bail. Justice Binta Nyako in her […]
Walid Jibrin, chairman of the board of trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the party will do whatever it takes to ensure Nyesom Wike doesn’t defect. Jibrin said this on Monday, while addressing journalists in Kaduna. Wike, governor of Rivers, had contested the presidential ticket of the PDP but lost to […]
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), yesterday, disclosed that dispatch riders had become distributors of hard drugs and illicit substances, vowing to beam its searchlight on them. The NDLEA Lagos State Commander, Alumona Callys, made the disclosure while addressing journalists on its activities in the past six months, in commemoration of the International […]
Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has clarified that his directive urging people to acquire firearms is for them to complement the efforts of security forces in the ongoing war against insurgency. He made the clarification on Monday while inaugurating four special committees at the Government House in Gusau, the State capital. The governor explained […]
At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday in and around a truck that was abandoned on the roadside on the outskirts of the Texas city of San Antonio. The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years — and came five years after a […]
ANAMBRA State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has denied the statement credited to him that he mocked the Labour Party, LP, and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, describing the report as totally false and unfounded. In the said report, Soludo was quoted as telling members of the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in the […]
