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The Presidency has described as unfortunate and disappointing the way and manner Bishop Matthew Kukah castigated his country, Nigeria, before the United States Congress. A statement by the President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday in Abuja, advised Kukah to desist from sowing discord and strife among Nigerians. The presidential aide believed that the opinions expressed by Kukah before the ...
July, 2021
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9 July
Onochie denies APC, contradicts affidavit
Lauretta Onochie on Thursday disavowed the All Progressives Congress during her screening by the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Committee. Onochie, was among those being screened for confirmation as National Commissioners for INEC. The nominee who had prior to her nomination swore to an affidavit affirming her membership of the party, claimed she stopped being a member years ...
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3 July
SS1 student poses as bandits’ leader, demands N3m from principal
A Senior Secondary School 1 pupil of the Federal Government College, Anka, for allegedly parading himself as a bandit leader in order to swindle the principal of the college out of N3m. The Police command in Zamfara has effected hisarrest. The suspect, Tukur Bashir, reportedly called the principal on the phone, telling her that he was a bandits’ leader. He ...
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3 July
Nnamdi Kanu complains of heart problem,.. how he spent 8 days in Kenya detention
The lead counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has said that Nnamdi Kanu was arrested by the Kenyan Government before he was handed over to the Department of State Services. He also said.. “The Kenya government was deeply involved in the abduction, detention and ill-treatment of my client before the illegal handover to their Nigerian counterpart.” Ejiofor ...
June, 2021
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29 June
Police kill 2, injure scores of students @ protest
A student of the Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has been shot dead. The deceased had joined his colleagues, who were protesting over hike in school fees, when security operatives made attempt to disperse them forcefully. One of the protesters, who preferred anonymity, said they came out to protest over the ...
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29 June
(Opinion): Fashola at 58: My observation from close quarters
Olatunji Oke It seems just like yesterday when a fresh-faced 43-year-old lawyer and then Chief of Staff to former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu sauntered into our collective consciousness, aspiring to succeed his boss as governor of Nigeria’s most important state. Relatively unknown in the political calculus of the state, Fashola was a breath of fresh air – youthful, measured, mild-mannered ...
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27 June
Buhari responds to Niger Delta Avengers’ bombing of facilities threats
The media was Sunday awash with threats and demands by a group, Niger Delta Avengers, to embark on economic sabotage through bombing of critical oil and gas installations unless certain demands, including development of the Niger Delta, and restructuring of the Federation, were met. It is, however, curious that the threat was coming less than 48 hours after President Muhammadu ...
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27 June
Chidinma reveals : broken home from age 2 ruined my life
Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, a 300 level student of Mass Communication in University of Lagos who confessed to the killing of Micheal Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV has revealed that she came from a broken home, noting that only her father raised her and she doesn’t have contact with her mother. In an interview Chidinma claimed that ...
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27 June
BREAKING: Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for murder of George Floyd
The Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, was on Friday night sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for the second degree murder of George Floyd in May 2020.Announcing his sentence this night, the judge said the sentencing was based solely on legal facts and not on emotions or sympathy or on public opinion.The prosecutors had asked for Chauvin ...
