Category: News

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdams Oshiomhole, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has disclosed that Kayode Fayemi the Governor of Ekiti State and APC presidential aspirant, once wanted him to commit electoral fraud in the APC which he (Oshiomhole) declined. The former Edo State Governor stated this in an interview, adding that…

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Rotimi Amaechi, Former Rivers State governor and an All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant has officially resigned as the Minister of Transportation. Amaechi said he resigned from the President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet to focus on his 2023 Presidential ambition There have been speculations over Amaechi’s resignation, following Buhari’s directive to his…

Reading Time: < 1 minutePeter Obi, A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has pledged to turn Nigeria from a consuming nation to a producing economy if he is elected the president of the country in the 2023 presidential election. Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, made the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Federal Government has ordered the Abuja-Kaduna train service to resume on Monday  May 23 Train services had been suspended on the route after terrorists attacked a train, fatally shot several persons, and abducted scores of passengers in March.Most of those abducted are still in captivity. In a statement signed by…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunci were arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court in Sokoto over the killing of a student, Deborah Samuel. The suspects, alongside the victim, were students of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. Deborah was accused of engaging in blasphemy and for this, her colleagues stoned and…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIbrahim Magu, Former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  has been promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police, the Police Service Commission said on Monday. “The eight Commissioners of Police promoted to AIGs were; CP Mustafa Magu Ibrahim who is the most senior in…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNigerian policeman supporting the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto State, by her colleagues over alleged blasphemy has been obtained According to the yet-to-be-named officer, those who are not in support of the action of the mobs are Kafiri (unbelievers). “Anyone…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Police Command in Anambra State, on Monday, said its operatives neutralised two gunmen enforcing the sit-at-home order in the state. The police said the gunmen were suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who were allegedly seen along Umunze road in the Orumba South Local Government…

Reading Time: < 1 minute  Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum has pulled out of the 2023 presidential race in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and returned to his work. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the minister, who disclosed this in Abuja on Monday, said he withdrew his presidential ambition…

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Tuesday The Federal High Court, Osogbo, Osun State will  resume hearing into the lawsuit filed by the Ilana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, challenging the validity of the 1999 constitution to hold an election. The group, called on media personnel and all self-determination activists for coverage…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Police Command in Borno state said it has successfully defused a bomb planted by Boko Haram and Islamic State of the West African Province(ISWAP) insurgents at Dalori Internally Displaced Persons Camp(IDPs) in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno. Dalori camp is located a few kilometres from Maiduguri, along the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesA Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has adjourned till May 23 for the continuation of the trial of an undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu, charged with the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga. Chidinma and one Adedapo Quadri are standing trial alongside a third…