Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has explained why his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, ran into trouble in running the parry’s affairs. Reacting to a statement by chairmen of South-South APC states chapters who blamed ...
Read More »Police, group disagree on alleged plot to criminalise Yoruba, Igbo youths, Adams, Odumakin, Babatope task S’West governors on loyalty
A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Apapo O’odua Koya, (AOKOYA), has alleged that dozens of Yoruba and Igbo youths were about being framed up by the police high command with kidnappings. It claimed that the force was deploying its covert code-name ‘Operation ...
Read More »Jukun women in Taraba protest against spouses’ killings by suspected Tiv militias, group clears Benue indigenes of wrongdoing
Jukun women took to the streets of Donga in Donga Local Council of Taraba State to protest against the incessant killings by suspected Tiv militias of their spouses. During a march to the palace of the first class traditional ruler ...
Read More »Centre accuses foreign media of promoting insurgency in Nigeria
The Centre for Social Justice, Equality and Transparency has accused foreign media outfits of promoting the activities of the terrorists in Nigeria. In a report presented in Abuja by its Executive Director, Isaac Ikpa, the group revealed that in the ...
Read More »Ignore terrorists’ panic claims in Lake Chad, military advises Nigerians
The Nigerian Army has urged the public to disregard the claims by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) that it had captured military personnel and equipment in Lake Chad region. In a statement yesterday in Maiduguri, Borno State, spokesman of ...
Read More »President Buhari commends Ecobank’s financial inclusion drive, support for SMEs
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Ecobank for its various initiatives targeted at promoting financial inclusion in the country, noting that it is key to the government’s diversification agenda. Buhari spoke when the Board of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) visited him ...
Read More »Architects get leave to file contempt proceedings against Minister of Housing, others
Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Lagos has granted leave to two architects to file contempt proceedings against the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, and two others for allegedly disobeying court order. Fashola, Architects Registration ...
Read More »Under-five deaths reduce by 47 per cent in Nigeria, others, says report
Nigeria has recorded a major feat in its infant mortality rate profile by almost halving her under-five deaths. The feat was contained in a new report released yesterday by Save the Children, an international organisation working to deliver change for ...
Read More »Lawmaker seeks protection of helpless teenagers, others
Representative of Obokun Constituency in the Osun State House of Assembly, Oyintiloye John Olatunbosun, has said Nigerians should use this year’s Children Day celebration to scale up activities aimed at restoring the dignity of the child. Olatunbosun, who highlighted the ...
Read More »Over 100 kids get etiquette mentorship to mark day
Media personality and former Big Brother Nigeria (BBN) finalist, Alex Asogwa popularly known as Alex Unusual, has mentored over 100 kids between the ages five and 13 years to mark the Children’s Day celebration. The event, which held in Lagos ...
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