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Former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba has kicked against the controversial social media bill in its entirety, accusing the sponsor of the bill and supporting senators of an attempt to silence the press in a democratic nation. Osoba, a veteran journalist, spoke on Monday at an event commemorating 160 years of journalism in […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that he will throw his weight behind the controversial Hate Speech Bill if the provisions are made to function retroactively and the first victims to be sanctioned are President Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu, Nasir El-Rufai, Festus Keyamo and Rotimi Amaechi for the hateful words they […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Department of State Services have rescued two kids aged three and four, three years after they were kidnapped in Kebbi State. The kids who were kidnapped on February 16, 2016, were reunited with their parents yesterday after security operatives arrested three suspects identified simply as Agatha, Moses, Simon. Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu […]
Continue ReadingSome police officers who were said to have invaded the Anambra home of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, allegedly shot two people dead in an attempt to arrest him. In photos shared on social media, a police officer was spotted having a fight with some residents […]
Continue ReadingRights activist, Femi Falana SAN has raised a fresh alarm on plans by the Department of State Services to transfer detained activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare popularly known as Mandate, to solitary confinement at a correctional center. Sowore’s lead defence counsel revealed this in a letter dated December 1, 2019 and addressed to the […]
Continue ReadingThe Minister for Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has said that he has no regrets siting the transportation university in Daura, president Buhari’s home town. Amaechi said this at the commissioning of the Transportation University in Daura, Katsina State on Monday. “When we sited the factory at Kajola, there was no noise, nobody debated about it, […]
Continue ReadingJustice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has ordered the temporary forfeiture of two houses in Ilorin, Kwara State belonging to former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to the Federal government According to the EFCC which dragged Saraki before the court. the properties located at Plots 10 and 11 Abdulkadir Road, GRA […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s former Chief of Defense Staff, Gen. Alexander Ogomudia (rtd.) has spoken about recent negative developments in the country, saying they were indications that the country was overdue for restructuring and in urgent need of a new way of governance. Ogomudia feared for the future of the country and its present security situation, saying, “a […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Police command has arrested five police officers for reportedly killing 27-year-old Maliki Mohammed and injuring two others at a night club in Oshodi, Lagos. The arrested police officers who were linked to the shooting which occurred at Crest Inn Club on Friday night were identified as Inspector Orubu Olusola; Inspector Apalowo Ola; Inspector Kasai Sule; Sergeant Momoh Ogwuche and […]
Continue ReadingNothing less than five inmates have been feared electrocuted to death in the Ikoyi prisons, Lagos Nigeria. Reports coming in, according to Punch, say that the incident happened on Monday morning. Many other inmates at the prison facility are said to be battling for their lives in a hospital. Details coming …..
Continue ReadingA police officer was sentenced to death on Sunday by an Iraqi court after convicting him of killing demonstrators, in the first such sentence in two months of deadly civil unrest. The Kut criminal court sentenced the police major to be hanged and jailed a police lieutenant colonel for seven years for their roles in […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian family facing deportation in Canada has called on the Canadian government to provide any assistance possible to avoid returning to Nigeria. The family feared that its two young girls — with another on the way — will be subjected to female genital mutilation in Nigeria. Rasheedat Bakare, her husband Afeez, son Faaiq and […]
Continue ReadingA young veterinarian whose charred remains were found on Thursday near Shadnagar town was reportedly raped and murdered by some persons who offered to help fix the tires of her scooty when she became stranded. 22-year-old Priyanka Reddy is suspected to have been killed near Tondupally toll plaza of Outer Ring Road at Shamshabad on the outskirts […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Friday said Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State cannot stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating him. According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Justice Binta Nyako stated this while delivering judgment, in a suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/60/09 filed by El-Rufai. The governor was seeking […]
Continue ReadingNollywood actress, Iyabo Osadare, has passed away. The thespian who is prominent in the Yoruba movie genre, died on Wednesday November 27 after a protracted battle with breast cancer. May her gentle soul rest in peace, amen.
Continue ReadingYoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has stated that the National Assembly could not prescribe the death penalty for treasury looters because it would be self-indicting, noting that it was not surprising that the lawmakers chose to save their own necks. The group’s spokesman, Mr Yinka Odumakin, said most lawmakers would not be alive if the death […]
Continue ReadingComrade Shehu Sani, former Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt in the 8th Senate, yesterday gave the reasons why the 8th Senate turned down the federal government loan request for $30 billion, stating it was to save Nigeria from sinking into the dark gully of a perpetual debt trap. President Muhammadu Buhari had […]
Continue ReadingThe National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), has voided the dismissal of Prof. Adeyemi Oluwagbemiga of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), by the management of the university. In the judgment in suit number NICN/AK/64/2018 between the claimant and Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), copy of which was made available to […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has arrived his country home of Daura, Katsina State, where he is on a four-day official visit. The President had attended the Fifth Summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on Friday; and had flown straight from there to Katsina State, en route Daura. Buhari was received, […]
Continue ReadingPolice constable, Austin Luciano Reynolds, has been found guilty of murder by a South African court for the killing of a Nigerian man, Ebuka Emmanuel Okoli. The Nigerian Union South Africa (NUSA) President, Adetola Olubajo, in a statement on Saturday, said the accused was found guilty on one charge of murder and three charges of […]
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