Ahead of the inauguration ceremony, many dignitaries, representatives of foreign governments, diplomats and heads of international organisations began arriving in Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Sunday. The United States delegation led by the US Secretary for Housing, Secretary Marcia Fudge touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on Sunday afternoon. The US Mission […]
Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun has remanded the Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, for 48 hours in police custody for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Kuti, in a 12-second video clip that went viral on May 13, 2023, had assaulted a policeman on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State. The defendant turned himself in at the […]
Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has denied describing the 2023 elections as a religious war, saying he is under pressure to go on exile. In an audio that leaked over the weekend, Obi was heard telling Bishop David Oyedepo, Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, to help him canvass votes of […]
Arthur Egwim, a member of Imo State House of Assembly, is dead. He was said to have passed on after a brief illness. The ranking lawmaker, who had represented Ideato North State Constituency, was first elected to the Imo State House of Assembly in 2015. He was re- elected in 2019 on the platform […]
The brother of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Kingsley Kanu, on Thursday, lost a legal challenge against the British government about his continued detention in Nigeria, AFP reports. The younger Kanu brought a judicial review of London’s alleged refusal to officially acknowledge that Nnamdi Kanu was the victim of extraordinary rendition […]
After a very exhaustive campaign and election season, President-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, has travelled abroad to rest and plan his transition programme ahead of May 29, 2023 inauguration. The President-elect left the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja for Europe on Tuesday night. The President-elect decided to take a break after the hectic campaign and […]
The Police Service Commission has replaced the former Director of the Civil Society directorate of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hajiya Naja’atu Mohammed, as one of the coordinators that will supervise conduct of police officers during general forthcoming elections. Her removal came barely five hours after the ruling APC […]
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, in a bid to strengthen the criminal justice system and standardise investigation processes in the Nigeria Police Force, has ordered a streamlining of all police investigative processes. The move, according to the IGP was to prevent duplication of investigation via indiscriminate petitions and transfer of cases initiated […]
Men of the Delta State Police Command have rescued a yet-to-be-identified man from taking his own life through a suicide attempt. This was contained in a Twitter message released on Sunday by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe. According to the message, a distress caller reached out to the police and […]
Troops of “Operation Hadin Kai’’ (OPHK) apprehended at least 79 terrorists and their collaborators in the Northeast in the last two weeks. Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made the declaration in Abuja on Thursday at the bi-weekly news briefing on the operations of the armed forces. Danmadami said troops also eliminated many […]
