Category: News

Reading Time: 3 minutesAkinwunmi Ambode Campaign Organisation has said that structures are in place to challenge Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the Lagos All Progressives Congress governorship ticket and also said there are plans to send Sanwo-Olu out of office in 2023. Wale Oluwo the chairman of AMCO and former Commissioner for Energy and Mineral…

Reading Time: 2 minutesNnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra has dragged the Federal Government to the Court of Appeal to challenge the amended seven charges on terrorism granted by Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja. He was challenging the decision of the court as contained in the…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteProf Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate on Sunday visited  Sunday Adeyemo, the Yoruba Nation agitator aka Sunday Igboho, in Cotonou, Benin Republic. Soyinka also held a closed-door meeting with the Yoruba Nation Leader and the coordinator of the Ilana Omo Oodua group, Prof Banji Akintoye, as well as his deputy, Prof…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe transgender community in Abuja has come out to hold a public protest in the street against the federal government, urging them to focus on the insecurities in the country and leave them alone. The protest which was held on Sunday, May 1 was recorded and posted online as they…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteASUU, the Academic Staff Union of Universities has threatened to continue the current strike if the Federal Government does not accept its demands. Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU’s National Chairman stated that the union will meet and perhaps prolong the strike if the government did not accept its demands Osodeke told reporters…

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Sheikh Musa Lukwa, The Islamic cleric who led his followers to observe Eid-el-Fitri prayers on Sunday, has defended his action by claiming that he got a report that the moon was sighted from impeccable sources.  The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, declared Monday as Eid-ul-Fitr, saying that no…

Reading Time: < 1 minute  FIFA, World football body, says Nigeria will pay CHF150,000 (N63.9m) as penalty following violence that erupted at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in March. Recall that hundreds of irate fans invade the Abuja Stadium on March 29, after Nigeria played out a 1-1 draw against Ghana The result effectively saw…

Reading Time: 2 minutes  President Muhammadu Buhari While commiserating with the families of those who died and were injured in the building collapse in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos State, has stated that the rate at which structures are collapsing in the country has reached an alarming rate. Buhari stated that it is…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo soldiers have been beheaded by gunmen on their way to their wedding in Imo state According to a chat obtained by LIB, a gunman confessed to killing the couple and two others. According to him, soldiers have been killing innocent people and he has “eaten these ones” in revenge.…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo residents were confirmed dead while trying to retrieve their phone from a pit toilet in Aku Village in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano State on Sallah eve. Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi Public Relations Officer of Kano State Fire Service disclosed this in a statement on Monday Abdullahi identified the…

Reading Time: 2 minutes   Nasarawa state Police has arrested one Bako Anjeh for raping a 17-years-old girl to death. The 36-year-old committed the crime in the Nasarawa-Eggon Local Government Area of the state. Ramhan Nansel, The Police Public Relations Officer of the command,made this known in Lafia, the state capital, on Sunday. He disclosed…

Reading Time: 2 minutesSuspected thief popularly called “Bouncer” has been electrocuted while stealing from St Luke’s Anglican Church, Agbarevo Street, off Omuma Road, in Eziukwu-Asa-Okpuaja in Aba South LGA, Abia State. SP Geoffrey Ogbonna, The State Police Spokesman who confirmed the report in an interview said the “area-boy” popularly known as “Bouncer” was allegedly  electrocuted while…