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Group Gives Federal Govt 7-Day Ultimatum To Release Zakzaky
A group, Save Zakzaky’s Life, has renewed its demand for the unconditional release of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim El Zakzaky from detention. In a statement issued on Tuesday, September 27,...
View ArticleFulani Herdsmen Strike In Anambra, Kidnap Catholic Priest From Seminary
Persons suspected to be the kidnappers of the Rector of Fr. Tansi Major Seminary in Onitsha, Anambra, Reverend Father Emmanuel Dim, have demanded a N2.5 million ransom for his release. The director of...
View ArticleState Gov’t To Get 13% Derivation From Mining Revenue – Fayemi
Kayode Fayemi, Nigeria’s minister of mines and steel development, has said disclosed that state governments are now beneficiaries of the 13 percent derivation from mining revenue. Speaking at the...
View ArticleEdo Poll: Ize-Iyamu Has An Unassailable Lead And INEC Wants To Rig – PDP
Dayo Adeyeye, the spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, is plotting to overturn its victory at the Edo governorship...
View ArticleBREAKING: INEC Declares Godwin Obaseki Winner Of Edo Guber Elections
Mr. Godwin Obaseki, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has been declared winner of the Edo State governorship election held on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. The declaration...
View ArticlePDP, Ize-Iyamu Reject INEC Result For Edo Poll
The Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State has rejected the results of Wednesday’s elections held in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, quotes the Edo PDP State chairman, Dan Orbi, as alleging...
View ArticleAny Attack On Bola Tinubu Is An Attack On All Of Yorubaland – Afenifere
An Afenifere Chieftain has described the attack on Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, by some elements within the ruling party, the All Progressive Congress, APC as an indirect attack on all of...
View ArticleEx-Militants Burn Down Hospital, 7 Cars, Security Outfit Building In Imo
Just weeks after some militants surrendered their arms to the governor of Imo State and pledged to embrace peace through the ongoing windows of dialogue opened by the presidency, the multi-million...
View ArticleLagos: 60-Year-Old Pastor, Raji Ayoola, Arraigned For Drug Trafficking
Raji Michael Ayoola, a 60-year old pastor, has been arraigned before a federal high court in Lagos for trying to export banned narcotics, National Drugs Laws Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, revealed on...
View ArticleEdo Poll: ‘Buhari Has Delivered Free And Fair Elections To Nigerians’– Amaechi
Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s minister of transportation, has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari has kept his promise of free, fair, and credible elections in the country. Amaechi said this at the...
View ArticleEdo Poll: There Were Vote-For-Cash And Cash-For-Vote Deals – TMG
The Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, a coalition of human rights, non-governmental and civil society organizations has issued a press release on the just concluded Edo State Governorship election. In...
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Boko Haram: 75,000 Children Will Die Of Famine In North East Nigeria – UNICEF
As many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram if donors don’t respond quickly, the U.N. Children’s Fund is warning. That’s far more than the...
View ArticleAmaechi, Rivers Is Not Edo And You’re Missing The Point Again (READ)
Nigeria’s embattled transportation minister, Rotimi Amaechi, in a desperate effort to redeem his blighted ego and waned national standing in the All Progressives Congress, APC, which were severely...
View ArticleEnelamah Denies Involvement In ‘MTN $13.9 Billion Money Laundering’
Okechukwu Enelamah, Nigeria’s minister for industry, trade and investment, has dismissed accusations on Thursday that he was involved in an alleged illegal transfer of $13.92 billion by South African...
View ArticleCoup Fallout: Turkey Begins Mass Deportation Of Nigerian Students
The government of Turkey has commenced a massive deportation of Nigerian students in the country according to news reports. According to Rukkaya Usman, a Nigerian student deported from the country,...
View ArticlePastor Denies Being ‘Struck With Paralysis’ At Local Shrine
A Pentecostal Pastor, Wale Fagbere, was stricken after he allegedly invaded a shrine. Residents of Ketu community in Aiyetoro area of Ogun on Sunday, October 2, 2016 expressed mixed feelings over the...
View ArticleFG To Reintroduce History Into Secondary School Curriculum
The Federal Government called for immediate dis-articulation of social studies in the current curriculum of basic schools and reintroduction of history as a subject. Adamu Adamu, Nigeria’s minister of...
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Oyegun Resignation: APC Spokesperson Sides With Tinubu, Writes Open Letter To...
Timi Frank, the deputy national publicity secretary of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to use his position to push for the resignation of...
View ArticleSale Of National Assets Should Be Nigeria’s Last Option – ICAN
Titus Soetan, the president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, has said that the sale of national oil assets should be Nigeria’s very last option out of recession. Soetan made...
View ArticlePopular Kannywood Actress Expelled For ‘Hugging And Cuddling’ In Music Video...
Rahama Sadau has been expelled from Kannywood, the Hausa indigenous film industry, for playing a love interest in a music video. According to the Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria,...
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