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Retired Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Sikiru Smith, has regained freedom from his kidnappers, five days after he was abducted in Lagos.   Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu confirmed that Smith had been reunited with his family.   Police rescued Smith early Saturday morning from the waterside at Langbasa where his kidnappers abandoned him […]

A serving member of the National Assembly is one of the sponsors of the secessionists currently pushing for independence from Nigeria, President Muhammdu Buhari revealed on Friday.   Buhari did not name the alleged sponsor, but said investigations were ongoing. He spoke in an Independence Day broadcast to make the country’s 61st anniversary.   “The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday announced a conditional lifting of the ban on Twitter, which the government imposed on the micro-blogging platform on June 5, 2021.   The president announced this in his Independence Day speech and explained that the lifting of the ban was conditional on some requirements being met to allow Nigerians to […]

The leading opposition People’s Democratic Party has zoned the position of its national chairman to the North.   This comes a few days after Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the pan-Igbo sociocultural organization, declared that PDP risked going into extinction if it zoned its presidency to the north in the 2023 elections.   However, PDP is yet to […]

As the struggle for power in 2023 reaches fever-pitch, and all means are being deployed to influence which geo-political zone will produce the next president, those individuals and organizations who have started laying claim to the presidency even while the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari is yet to complete his tenure are entitled to their opinions, […]

The Kaduna State Government has directed the shutdown of telecommunications services, with the aim of checking the influx of bandits from Zamfara and Katsina States.   The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, reiterated the announcement, which had earlier been made by  Governor Nasir El-Rufai, as he addressed journalists in Kaduna on  […]

“We don’t believe in cheating or rigging elections but also we don’t want other parties to cheat us, and that was why we encouraged the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission to come up with a fool-proof voting process.” – Nasir el-Rufai   The prefatory statement above belongs to Nasir el-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna, one […]

  Dr. Chike Akunyili, the husband of late former Information Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has been reportedly murdered by gunmen.   He was killed at Umuoji in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State on Tuesday evening, according to The Nation Newspaper.   The paper quoted a source close to the family that said the deceased […]

  Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo sociocultural group, has cautioned the  People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against  zoning its 2023 presidential to the North, warning that such a move would spell the party eternal demise.   Ohanaeze spoke a day after the Northern States Governors’ Forum met with Northern Emirs and Chiefs in Kaduna and rejected […]

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Tuesday rescue seven victims of a kidnapping gang killing the ring leader in an operation, it said.   It said in a statement that operatives from the Pegi Division killed a notorious wanted kidnapper, Umar Bappa, aka Maishede Blakie, during the operation, with gang members escaping into the […]

Gunmen on Monday evening kidnapped a former Chief of Logistics, Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Sikiru Oladimeji Smith (rtd) in Lagos, according to a message by his driver.   News of Smith’s kidnap was contained in an SOS voice note sent out by his driver, Corporal Odiji. The note said that the […]