Category: News

Reading Time: 2 minutesCorporal Matthew Isaac who was seen in a viral video singing, dancing and brandishing a rifle in praise of a particular confraternity (cult) has been  arrested by the  Nigeria Police Force. The arrest was confirmed in a statement issued by the Acting Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi who…

Reading Time: 2 minutes, Sa’ad Abubakar III, The Sultan of Sokoto,  who is also President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, has declared that the orphans of banditry and the Boko Haram insurgency are his children. Abubakar made the declaration on Saturday, at the Eid-el-fitr lunch organised for the students of UK Jarma Academy…

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Trade Union Congress has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari's administration over the lingering strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), which has paralysed the country’s public universities since February 2022. Ranti Ojo, The TUC Chairman in Kogi State, during an interview on Saturday, said President Buhari’s body…

Reading Time: 2 minutesNigerian airline operators  (AON) have announced they would suspend operations as from Monday due to the high cost of aviation fuel which has hit 700 naira per litre. Abdulmunaf Sarina, The President of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON disclosed this in a statement The statement advised the traveling public who intend…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe House of Representatives Minority Caucus  has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take immediate steps to avert an imminent shutdown of flight operations over the unbearable high-cost aviation fuel (JetA1) from N190 to N700 per litre. Ndudi Elumelu, The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives who stated this in…

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe leadership of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) wittingly and most irresponsibly injected itself in the 2023 elections, I had not been so vehemently opposed to Pastor Yemi Osinbajo’s candidacy.  I had believed it was good for our nascent democracy if everyone who thought they had something to contribute to the development of our nation had the opportunity to offer themselves for service. I had thought it…

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Godwin Emefiele, The Governor of the Central Bank, has said that he had not yet made a decision on joining the 2023 presidential race and would do so in the “next few days.” Emefiele, under whom the apex bank had retrogressed and the national economy receded, said it was “patriots”…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBishop David Oyedepo, The presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners Chapel, worldwide has said he will not be contesting for the presidency in the 2023 elections. Oyedepo said  to be Nigeria’s president is a demotion to him, adding that he’s called for a global impact…

Reading Time: 5 minutesProf Nora Ladi Daduut, A female senator in Plateau State has narrated her ordeal in the hands of the hoodlums who were youths from her constituency. The lawmaker who is representing Plateau South senatorial district was reportedly held hostage for three hours by armed hoodlums after she commissioned an Information and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesp Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government has asked the United Kingdom government to confiscate the assets of the Indigenous People of Biafra, “shut down their communication channels and sanction the issuance of visas to IPOB funders in Nigeria.” The Presidency stated these in a release on Friday. It was  reported that the…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Omoyele Sowore, Human rights' activist, has taken a swipe at the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, after the latter purchased the N100million presidential form of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Emefiele had reportedly picked the nomination form on Friday from the party’s organising secretary at the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) commenced on Friday nationwide, with a total number of 1.7 million candidates registered to sit for examinations nationwide.  The 11-day examination being conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and held in over 755 Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres, would end on…