Beyond the Headlines
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to clarify his recent comments on regretting picking Atiku as vice-presidential candidate in 1999. Obasanjo had, while addressing a leadership mentoring session with selected students in Abeokuta, Ogun state, on Saturday, said picking a running mate when he wanted to become Nigeria’s president […]
Justice Sodetan Ogunsanya of the Ikeja High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday, convicted a lawyer, Stella Achebe and her company, Infinite Favour Nigeria Limited for N10m fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned Stella Achebe and her company for the offence bordering on the issuance of dud cheques, contrary to Section 1(1)(b) […]
By Ahaoma Kanu Hello Mr. President, I saw that you had a very interesting visit recently during the 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda; I saw your pictures and watched you during the event. You are not one to miss such occasions that would accord you some shoulder rubbing with […]
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has urged the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) to arrest and bring back into custody, all escaped inmates. The minister, according to a statement by his spokesman, Sola Fasure, made the call at the opening of a two-day retreat for senior management of the service in Sokoto yesterday. He […]
Over 10 million new voters have registered in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise across the country. This is according to the update for Week 11 in the Fourth Quarter released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday. A breakdown of the figure showed that while fresh registrants hit 10,487,972, completed […]
CHAIRMAN of the Southern Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, yesterday, said that the directive by the Zamfara State government to citizens to arm themselves for self-defence “confirms the pervasive loss of confidence in the current security arrangement of the country.” Akeredolu, in a statement by his Aide on Special Duties and Strategy, Dr. Doyin Odebowale, […]
Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) over the controversy surrounding the real age of David Ukpo. The former deputy senate president and his wife were recently arrested for allegedly bringing a child to the UK for organ harvesting. They were subsequently remanded […]
Many travellers plying Abeokuta-Papa-Sango-Lagos road on Monday were stranded when some yet-to-be-identified men of the Nigeria Police Force, Ogun State Command, shot dead a truck driver and his motor boy. The incident reportedly occurred along the Itori area of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Our correspondent gathered that the policemen in their patrol van met the […]
The Nigerian Army said yesterday that troops of 302 Regiment and security agencies have dislodged camps belonging to Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Anambra and Enugu states. Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement, said the raids were carried out in conjunction with operatives of the Nigerian […]
The Special Adviser to the Imo Governor, Hope Uzodinma, on Political Matters, Dr Batos Nwadike has resigned his appointment. The governor’s aide announced his exit from the government in a letter addressed to the governor made available to journalists on Monday in Owerri, Imo State. Nwadike said, “It is with a mixture of nostalgia, […]
