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Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana SAN, said on Thursday, that Nigeria has become a failed state; regretting that the government has lost the monopoly of violence to the armed gangs. He pointed out that apart from the manipulation of ethnicity and religion and the use of brute force the federal and state governments […]
Continue ReadingControversial Catholic cleric and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has prayed and blessed the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, for championing the cause of his people. He also spoke highly of Kanu whose group has been proscribed and labelled a terrorist organisation by […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has raised an alarm of the Indigenous People of Biafra’s Eastern Security Network acquiring bombs and explosives which they are moving from Lagos to Imo to destabilize the South-East state. The information was conveyed in a letter with reference number, S.238/5/1538 dated April 26, 2021 and signed by I. Abdullah on […]
Continue ReadingLagos state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, has denied media reports that the state government has seized the money donated to viral amputee hawker, Mary Daniel. A report by the Nation alleged that the state government withheld Mary’s money after finding out the single mother ”lied” about her condition. Nigerians took to social media on […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Saturday, February 18, 2023, for the conduct of the next presidential election in the country. INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu made this known at a one-day public hearing on the National Electoral Offences Commission (Establishment) bill 2021 today. Mr Yakubu, according to Punch Newspaper, said the timetable and […]
Continue ReadingWorried by the alarming spate of insecurity in the country, the Catholic Priest and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Fr Ejike Mbaka, has called for the impeachment of President Buhari. Speaking at the Adoration Ministry in Enugu recently, the clergyman wondered how the President will maintain grave silence despite the wanton killings across the country. […]
Continue ReadingUnknown gunmen have killed 60-year-old Lagos socialite and businessman, Chief Adeola Razaq Jikoji. Jikoji was shot dead in front of his house at Jikoli Court, Unity estate, Badore, Ajah area of Lagos on Sunday, April 26. It was gathered that the assailants stormed the area in a tricycle around 3pm while the deceased was driving into the estate […]
Continue ReadingClaims by Mary Daniel, the Oshodi amputee hawker that she lost a leg in an accident that killed all passengers, including her parents when she was a teenager, have been discovered as false, The Nation learnt on Wednesday evening. Daniel became a sensation weeks ago after pictures of her selling water at Oshodi emerged on social media […]
Continue ReadingLike the Southwest network security unit, Amotekun, here are the men of the Southeast security network, Ebube Agu, as they stepped out in their uniform. The security unit was formed by the Southeast governors on April 11 to tackle the insecurity in the region. They were officially launched in Enugu state on Wednesday April 28. […]
Continue ReadingComing in, is the report that gunmen have attacked Nkporo police station in Ohafia local government area of Abia State, Nigeria. The attackers were said to have razed the main building of the station. According to The Nation, the arsonists also burnt exhibits, including motorcycles and cars at the station. It was gathered the gunmen […]
Continue ReadingA hotel owner and his wife have been brutally murdered by unknown gunmen suspected to be assassins in Ado–Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. The 63-year-old man identified as Kehinde Ibidunni and his wife, Elizabeth, 54, were reportedly stabbed and shot dead by the gunmen who broke into their residence at Atan-Ota community […]
Continue ReadingA man has been arrested after he was found with a condom containing sperm. The brother of the arrested man had gone on Twitter to complain about his brother’s arrest. He wrote in his tweet: “SARS AT SARS ROAD has been holding my brother since yday night that they saw him with condom. He slept […]
Continue ReadingAbia State Police Command in Nigeria has launched manhunt for a fleeing gateman after a widow was brutally murdered in Umuahia. The victim, Mrs Queeneth Alozie, a retired nurse from the Federal Medical Centre FMC Umuahia, was allegedly slaughtered on Sunday morning, April 25, by yet-to be identified assailants. Until her death, Mrs Alozie was the […]
Continue ReadingKidnappers have released a video of a pregnant student and the others abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Afaka, Kaduna State, Nigeria in March. The kidnappers who had initially demanded a N500 million ransom from the government, reached out to some parents of the abducted students after the Kaduna state government failed […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has blamed the country’s current security challenges on the 1975 coup d’état which overthrew Yakubu Gowon and brought Murtala Muhammed to power. Sharing moments from a town-hall meeting on national security organised by the federal government in an interview on Channels Television, the Minister narrated how the Gowon government was planning to […]
Continue ReadingFive suspected cultists who claimed to be students of the Ekiti State University (EKSU) have been arrested during a cult initiation ceremony. Ekiti State Police Command’s spokesperson, Sunday Abutu, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, April 26, said the suspects were arrested during the initiation rite held in a bush behind the school campus […]
Continue Reading38-year-old man, Kelfari Jediel, has been arrested in Adamawa for allegedly stabbing his uncle’s son, Parambiu Alexander, 20, to death while fighting over N150. The incident happened at Fotta community in Gombi Local Government Area of the state after the duo were paid for a job they had carried out. The father of two, who is being […]
Continue ReadingAt the inaugural Chandler Good Government Index (CGGI), launched on Monday April 26 in Singapore, Nigeria was ranked the third-worst in global good governance index. 34 indicators which are organized into seven pillars: leadership and foresight; robust laws and policies; strong institutions; financial stewardship; attractive marketplace; global influence and reputation; and helping people rise are used […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has sanctioned Channels Television by ordering an immediate stoppage of one of its programmes, ‘Politics Today’. Acting Director-General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, had in a letter accused Channels Television station of interviewing a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) allegedly without ‘caution or reprimand.’ Idachaba who referred […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement released on Monday, the Kaduna state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan said, kidnappers have killed two more students of the Greenfield University, Kaduna State. The bandits had on Friday killed three of the abducted students of the varsity, saying it was a warning for not paying the […]
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