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As the race to the presidential election scheduled for 2023 gains momentum, the Presidency on Tuesday raised the tempo of the game as it boldly told the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to stop dreaming of winning the poll.   This decarati0n was made by the Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu […]

Details have emerged about the arrest of the leader of the demand for a Yoruba Nation, Sunday Adeyemo, with the revelation that he and his wife were arrested by the International Criminal Police Organisation.   Reports earlier on Tuesday said that Adeyemo, who is also known as Igboho, had been arrested in Cotonou in the […]

Three weeks after he was declared wanted by the Nigerian government, Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, who is popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has been arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic.   Igboho was arrested at an airport in Cotonou on Monday night, The Punch newspaper said, citing “a top source familiar with the matter”.   […]

On Sunday, July 18, 2021, Flight Lieutenant Abayomi Dairo joined the league of heroes who fell from the sky and lived to tell their stories. He was literarily plucked off the skies by the weapons of the colleagues of men on whose heads he had successfully dropped off some fire power.   It was mission […]

The Department of State Services has stopped Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, from signing a consular assistance form given by the United Kingdom, his lawyer has alleged.   Aloy Ejimakor, one Kanu’s counsels, announced this in a in a statement he issued on Monday after visiting in the DSS custody, where […]

A High Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra State Capital, on Monday declared Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo as the authentic governorship candidate for the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the Anambra State.   The Court therefore ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission  to recognize the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria as such, […]

  A pilot with the Nigerian Airforce, Flight Lieutenant Abayomi Dairo, has been rescued after intense gunfire by armed bandits grounded a Nigerian Airforce Alpha Jet aircraft in Zamfara State, the Airforce has said.   A statement issued on Monday by the Director Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, said […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his leadership position “to urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to withdraw the directive containing a sweeping gag order banning journalists and broadcast stations from reporting […]

The Presidency has rebuked the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Dr. Matthew Kukah over his comments about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria by armed extremist groups in the North.   Responding to the outspoken cleric, the presidency described Kukah’s comments as “unfortunate and disappointing”, decrying the fact that Kukah “castigated” Nigeria before the US […]

Mr. Osita Okechukwu, the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria  and a founding member of the Progressives Action  Congress has described the development of N6.25 billion Katsina cattle ranch as being more important to the survival of the nation than the electronic transmission of results, which was rejected by the National Assembly this week.   […]

Benue Governor Samuel Ortom has critised President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly approving the establishment of ranching in Katsina State, while the Federal government insists on the operation of open grazing in other states.   Ortom, an ardent critic of President Buhari, said about N6.5bn was allegedly approved for the establishment of ranching in Katsina, and […]

Prof Charles Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, will contest the November 6 2021 governorship election in Anambra State, one of his aides has assured.   Soludo’s name was missing on the list of candidates for the poll released on Friday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).   “Our millions […]