Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon on Wednesday to announce they have taken over power in the Central African country, BBC reports. They said they were annulling the results of Saturday’s election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner. The soldiers who introduced themselves as members of the CTRI […]
Governor Umar Bago of Niger State has said his administration is discussing with bandits to find an amicable resolution in the issue of insecurity in the state. Fielding questions from journalists, yesterday, when he visited the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Malagi, in Abuja, the governor said his administration was offering the […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) made a U-turn on Tuesday and disowned campaign council lists it earlier released ahead of the November 11, 2023 governorship polls in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo states. The lists are not official documents of the party,” said APC spokesman, Felix Morka, in a statement late Tuesday. The APC had […]
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash two months after staging a short-lived mutiny, was on Tuesday laid to rest in a secret ceremony in his native Saint Petersburg. He was believed to have been buried at the Porokhovskoye cemetery amid heightened security after his firm said a private […]
THE Edo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a 400-Level student of University of Port Harcourt, identified as Victor Ochonogor suspected to be a ‘Yahoo boy,’ who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death in his Benin City residence. The incident was said to have happened at 10, Osahon Street, Ogheghe Quarters, off Sapele Road, Benin […]
Two churchgoers, Femi Akinola and Tunde Falade, have died after drowning in a river where they went to swim on Monday. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, in a statement on Tuesday, said the two persons who came from Lagos to the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Onikoko, via the Itori area […]
Wednesday 30 August 2023 Cameroon dam opening: N700bn CBN farmers’ loan under threat in flooded states NNPP divided over Tinubu, Atiku, factions suspend Kwankwaso, others NNPP crisis deepens as Kwankwaso faction expels Agbo, others Two churchgoers drown in Ogun river Enugu police arrest man with firearm in masqueraders’ clash Elumelu Visits Tinubu, Says Private […]
The military has announced a coup in Gabon, deposing President Ali Bongo, who was declared winner of Saturday’s election. Bongo, who came to power after the death of his father in 2009, won a third term in an election which opposition argued was heavily disputed. According to Reuters, tensions were running high amid fears […]
The Stakeholders of Onitsha South Local Government Area of Anambra State have decried the sudden transfer of the former Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Fegge Police Station, CSP Rabiu Garba. In the statement issued by the stakeholders, they said that they would miss Rabui Garba, a Chief Superintendent of Police ( CSP), who has […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration yesterday demolished a fully completed multimillion naira duplex for building in an unapproved plot of land. The building, located on Plot 226 Cad Zone A02 Wuse 1, Wuse, Zone 6 District, is said to belong to Oba Oyebade Lipede, the Alake of Egba land, but was allegedly taken over […]
