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The British police arrested Adeyinka Grandson, president of the Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF) secessionist group, in London over his alleged social media posts against some ethnic groups in Nigeria. Grandson, a UK-based Nigerian of Yoruba descent, is known for his social media attacks on people of Igbo extraction as well as criticism of the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Presidency has finally disclosed why Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s Twitter account was unverified and his profile picture and header image taken down on Saturday, August 10. Over 2,399 tweets were deleted from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s account amidst its unverification. The suspension and deletion of tweets took place between Friday night, August 9 and […]
Continue ReadingUS billionaire financier, Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide at the Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center where he is being held pending trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Law enforcement officials told newsmen that he was placed on “suicide watch”, but got successful on his second attempt. Epstein who hanged himself overnight and found dangling by 7:30a.m on Saturday August 10, was reportedly […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo’s twitter account has been unverified. All tweets by the account which was created in December 2014, have been deleted and his profile picture and header image have been taken down. The suspension and deletion of tweets took place between Friday night August 9th and Saturday morning August 10th. The Vice President’s office […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, who was in Ondo state for the 2019 Fagunwa Study Group International Conference, was personally driven and conducted round some projects of the present administration in Akure by the State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN. Gov Akeredolu and other members of the state executive council, alongside Soyinka were at […]
Continue ReadingDr. Joseph Imoter Ukpanya was crushed to death by a truck along the Makurdi-Lafia road last weekend. According to reports, late Ukpanya, who was pursuing his PhD in History and War studies at the Nigerian Defence Academy, was on his way home from Jos, Plateau state, when he ran into a gang of armed robbers. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Force Headquarters, on Thursday, paid an emotional tribute to the three officers killed by Nigerian soldiers while on an operation in Taraba State. The inspector and two sergeants were amongst a team of crime-busting detectives who came under fire while transporting a suspected kidnap kingpin in a police bus on Tuesday evening. Many other […]
Continue ReadingWhether or not it is constitutional for a judge to order the detention of a citizen for 90 days as provided under the Terrorism Prevention Act, activist and lawyer, Femi Falana SAN said yesterday that it is time to find out. The senior lawyer said the detention of the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, […]
Continue ReadingCoalition of Northern Groups (CNG), has accused the Southwest of attempting to overthrow President Buhari through the RevolutionNow protest called by former presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore. The CNG claimed that the RevolutionNow was a Southwest conspiracy, hence Northerners refused to take part in the protest. in a statement by the […]
Continue ReadingA popular Ghanaian actor and traditionalist, Nana Tornado, has stated that Heaven and Hell do not exist but an illusion introduced by white men. The Ghanaian actor alleged that the Biblical claim of one going to heaven after living a good life and going to hell after living a bad life is a lie made popular […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday granted permission to detain the publisher of SaharaReporters and convener of RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, for 45 days. Ruling on an ex-parte application by the Department of State Services (DSS), whose operatives arrested Sowore last Saturday, Justice Taiwo Taiwo held that the detention order would be renewable after […]
Continue ReadingA Kenyan lawmaker was kicked out of the Parliament for binging her baby to the chambers. Kwale woman Representative, Zulekha Hassan was on Wednesday, August 7, ordered out of the National Assembly for disrupting a parliamentary session. Speaker of the National Assembly Hon. Chris Omulele, MP Luanda described her move as unprecedented, and then ordered her out of the chambers. […]
Continue ReadingKaduna State Govt has filed at the Kaduna High Court terms for strict supervision of the leave granted to the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, by the State High Court to seek medical treatment in India. The state High Court had on Monday granted […]
Continue ReadingMrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has described the appointment of Nigeria-born Mr. Adeyemo Adewale as President of the Obama Foundation in the US as a well-deserved appointment. In the letter of congratulations signed by Dabiri-Erewa and addressed to Mr. Adeyemo Adewale, she said it was gratifying that the US-based Nigerian was […]
Continue ReadingThe Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Adewale Martins, has urged the Federal Government to see the ongoing “#RevolutionNow” protest as a wake-up call to address the untold hardship Nigerians were undergoing. Martins made the plea on Wednesday in Lagos while reacting to the ongoing agitations for better living conditions for Nigerians, urging the government […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday ordered both the Senate and the House of Representatives to halt their plan to take over the legislative duties of the Edo State House of Assembly. The presiding judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo made the order at the resumed hearing in the case instituted by the Edo […]
Continue ReadingChief Ayo Adebanjo is a chieftain of pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, and a former National Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy (AD). In this interview with TEMITOPE OGUNBANKE, he speaks on the state of the nation, Afenifere crisis and the battle for 2023 presidency, among others What is your take on the on the 43-man ministerial […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Department of State Service (DSS) has applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order to allow it keep Sahara Reporters publisher, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, for 90 days. Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 general election, was arrested on Saturday by operatives of the […]
Continue ReadingA 10-year-old orphan was dumped at a hospital in Benue state while experiencing labour pains and the child has now given birth after having to undergo Caesarean section due to the small size of her pelvis. According to Chigozie Effe who shared the news on Facebook, the child named Masenengen Targba was dumped at General Hospital Markurdi […]
Continue ReadingComrade and former lawmaker representing Kaduna central senatorial district, Shehu Sani, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration which describes itself as progressive, should have no fear of revolution. The senator said this while reacting to the police clampdown on protesters across the country on Monday. Many Nigerians in various states had trooped out to […]
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