Dele Momodu: APC chieftains aren’t campaigning for Tinubu because they are embarrassed

  Dele Momodu, director of strategic communications of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council, says some All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains are not campaigning for Bola Tinubu, the party’s standard bearer, because they are embarrassed. In a statement on Saturday, Momodu said Tinubu has failed to market his manifesto, adding that it has […]

Man kills wife over loaf of bread

  A man identified as Ndubisi Wilson Uwadiegwu from Enugu State has allegedly beaten his wife, Ogochukwu Enene, to death over bread. The Razor Newspaper gathered that the the late Ogochukwu who was the senior prefect of Amenyi Girls Secondary school 2000 set, hailed from Umuokpu village, Awka, Anambra State. According to an online notice […]

North-East, Others Get New Commanders As Army Redeploys Senior Officers

Major General IS Ali has been appointed the new Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force North-East Operation Hadin Kai in a major shakeup announced by the Nigerian Army on Saturday. Those affected by the redeployment include some Principal Staff Officers of the Army Headquarters, Corps Commanders, Commandants of Army Training Institutions, Brigade Commanders, Commanding […]

Kebbi PDP Reps Candidate Dies After US Trip

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Birnin Kebbi/Kalgo/Bunza Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Abba Muhammed Bello, is dead. Bello is said to have died after returning from the United States where he went to check on his father and former PDP chairman, Dr Muhammed Haliru Bello, who has been sick for […]

Six journalists detained over viral video of South Sudan President peeing on camera

  Media rights groups have called for South Sudanese authorities to release six journalists detained over a video reportedly showing President Salva Kiir urinating on himself. The staff at the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation were arrested on Tuesday by agents from the National Security Service, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, citing media […]

Fears as military plans ex-terrorists’ release to governors

  There are concerns that the plan by the military to release another set of repentant terrorists into society could subvert the progress made so far in the war against insurgency. No fewer than 613 rehabilitated terrorists undergoing de-radicalisation are scheduled to be handed over by the military authorities to their respective state governors. This […]

Cash ban can’t be forced on foreign missions – Ex-diplomats

  The United Kingdom High Commission in Nigeria has said it will comply with all directives from the Federal Government, including the guidelines rolled out by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit to curb money laundering and terrorism financing, which also applied to embassies. The Director and Chief Executive Officer, NFIU, Modibbo Tukur, had on Thursday […]