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The 2021 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) published by Transparency International (TI) on Tuesday January 25, showed that Nigeria has dropped 5 places. The CPI rated Nigeria, which scored 24 out of 100 points in the 2021 index, as the second most corrupt country in West Africa, after Guinea. Nigeria’s current 154 ranking out of 180 […]
Continue ReadingBurkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers. Reports of his detention on Monday January 24, came a day after soldiers staged mutinies at several army barracks, prompting fears of a coup in the conflict-hit country. Later on Sunday, heavy gunfire was also heard near Kabore’s residence in the capital, Ouagadougou. It […]
Continue ReadingOne member of the Southeast local security outfit, Ebubeagu, Sunday Nwafor, in Ekpelu community, in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has been killed by gunmen. The gunmen stormed Nwafor’s house at night while he was asleep and shot him dead. They dragged his body out of his room and cut off his head, which […]
Continue ReadingThe Edo State Police has paraded the police officer who assaulted travelers and shot in their direction in a viral video. The video went viral yesterday and caused outrage. Following the outrage, it was revealed that the police officer involved and his team members have been arrested. However, Nigerians were not satisfied and asked for proof. The […]
Continue ReadingA trigger-happy Nigerian police operative was seen assaulting a woman before shooting close to civilians when confronted. In a video making the rounds online, Police officers said to belong to Edo State command, Nigeria, are seen with some travellers they stopped by the road side. One of the officers is seen scolding a female traveller […]
Continue ReadingThe mother of two, Mercy Henry, who was declared missing in Lagos state, Nigeria, in December 2021, has been found dead. Mercy had gone missing on December 16 after she left her home to see a trado-medical doctor in Ijegun, a suburb in Lagos state. She however did not return home on the said day, […]
Continue ReadingThe Kano State Police Command, Nigeria, has arrested a school teacher, Abdulmalik Mohammed Tanko, for abducting and killing his 5-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, despite collecting part of the N6m ransom he demanded. Hanifa was abducted at Kawaji, in Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state on Saturday, December 4, 2021. Spokesperson of the command, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who confirmed the […]
Continue ReadingAn Abia State High Court presided over by Justice Benson Anya has ordered Nigerian Government to pay the sum of N1 billion as damages to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and issue a letter of apology to him. The IPOB leader had instituted the court action demanding N5 billion […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday morning, departed Nigeria for Gambia where he will be attending the second-term inauguration of President Adama Barrow holding today January 19. He left via the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The President will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama; National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen Babagana […]
Continue ReadingFormer Managing Director of Alpha Beta Consulting, Dapo Apara, an All Progressives Congress leader who is presently seeking to contest in the 2023 Nigerian presidential election, Bola Tinubu; and the present Managing Director of the company, Akin Doherty, have begun discussions on a possible out-of-court settlement in the case instituted by Apara at the Lagos […]
Continue ReadingReports say that there were multiple attacks by armed persons suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) enforcing the controversial sit-at-home order across Nigeria’s Southeast region. Also, there were indications that the residents of the region might be forced to observe a four-day lockdown from Monday following Kanu’s resumed treason […]
Continue ReadingIkeja Special Offences Court of Lagos State, presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada has granted Instagram celebrity and Dubai-based businessman, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, bail of N200 million. Mompha was rearrested last week Monday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and was first re-arraigned in court last Wednesday, January 14. Granting […]
Continue ReadingAn Ekiti State High Court sitting at Ado Ekiti, on Monday January 17, sentenced Damilola Olasoji, a 36-year-old dismissed soldier and Koiki Benson, 32, to death by hanging for the offence of armed robbery. The court also sentenced Ogbesetuyi Tunde (30) and the two defendants to life imprisonment for offence of conspiracy and attempted robbery. Olasoji, Benson […]
Continue ReadingFormer Military leader, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, (rtd) has said that the massive corruption going on in Nigeria now would make him and others who served in the military look like saints. Babangida said this in an interview with Trust TV. He said: “I sacked a governor for misappropriating N300,000. Now there are people, we […]
Continue ReadingThe Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared a sit-at-home on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, in the Southeast, ahead of a court judgement expected to be delivered on their leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s human rights case instituted against the Nigerian government. IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful, said the order became necessary as Kanu is billed to appear […]
Continue ReadingLagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) on Friday, Jan. 14, estimated that Nigerian businesses lost N10.72 trillion ($26.1billion) within 222 days President Muhammadu Buhari shut down Twitter operations across Nigeria. The director-general of LCCI, Chinyere Almona, said in a statement: “In business terms, the cost of the seven-month shutdown of Twitter operations in Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingIslamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has released video of its fighters attacking Tukur Yusufu Buratai Institute for War and Peace (TBI), a research Institute of the Nigerian Army University, located in Buratai Village, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State on Monday January 10. The army institute is located in the hometown of […]
Continue ReadingSouthern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum met in Abuja on Thursday and declared that political parties that field northern presidential candidates won’t enjoy their support in the 2023 general elections. Delegations from the four regional socio-cultural organisations: Afenifere (South West), Ohanaeze Ndigbo (South-East), Pan Niger Delta Forum (South-South) and the Middle Belt Forum (Middle Belt) […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star actress, Nse Ikpe-Etim, has reacted to federal government of Nigeria lifting suspension of Twitter operations in the country. The federal government said it lifted the suspension of the social media giant’s operations in the country after reaching an agreement which include legal registration of operations, taxation, and managing prohibited publications in line with […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor of Oyo State, Nigeria, Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, has passed away. It was gathered that the chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) died on Wednesday at the age of 71. The cause of his death is still unknown because information regarding that is still very sketchy at the time of filing this report. […]
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