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Office of telecommunication company, MTN, situated at Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria has been set on fire by an irate mob. The incident resulted in gridlock as vehicles passing through Agodi government secretariat road en route the University of Ibadan are having a hectic time, navigating the road. As a result of the development, the […]
Continue ReadingAs Nigeria’s new administration puts together an economic team to think through priorities for the next four years, one larger problem looms in the background. Policies to tackle the multiple challenges with growth, inflation, public finances, currency and trade will only matter if they are understood as planks in a strategy of tackling a much […]
Continue ReadingLeader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiites, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, have returned to Nigeria after their botched medical trip to India. The couple landed the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria on Friday afternoon aboard an Ethiopian Airline. El-Zakzaky and his wife decided to return home without […]
Continue ReadingAn Ado-Ekiti High Court has sentenced two men, Adewa Sunday, 34, and Adedayo Amos, 33, to death by hanging for robbery and illegal possession of firearms. Delivering judgment, the Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, held that the prosecution had proved its case of robbery and illegal possession of firearms. He said the evidence […]
Continue ReadingNasarawa state police command have arrested Mrs Grace Jacob Maisamari pictured left for alleged killing of her 4-year-old step grandson, Ritse Micah, on June 27 2019. Grace allegedly threw Micah into a well over the hatred she had for her stepdaughter, Miracle Micah, Ritse’s mother. The Sun reports that, Grace got married to Kapechi Micah […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has written yet another letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, warning that Nigeria is tipping towards a dangerous cliff and only the president could forestall such a looming disaster. In the July 15, 2019 letter, Obasanjo said the world, especially Western countries, has been warning Nigeria against descending into a state […]
Continue ReadingSuspected herdsmen stabbed a 49-year-old farmer, Rafiu Showemimo, to death in Adao community in Alabata area of Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, yesterday, Sunday July 14. According to reports, Showemimo was on his way back home from his farm when he was attacked by the suspected herdsmen who reportedly stabbed him in the neck and left him […]
Continue ReadingJersey Island in the UK has said discussions are ongoing with the Federal Government to repatriate to Nigeria £211m (N82bn) allegedly looted by former military dictator, General Sani Abacha. Although authorities of the island said it couldn’t make a comprehensive comment on the issue, it stated that provided that an agreement was reached, the bulk […]
Continue ReadingA container has fallen on multiple vehicles at the Tin Can Island, Apapa Lagos, Nigeria. It is not yet ascertained if there were causalities, but the affected vehicles were badly damaged. It is hoped that people are not inside those cars because there is no how they can survive except through special miracles.
Continue ReadingTalking about flood, it is something else in some parts of Lagos each time it rains heavily. This flood is very dirty. According to reports, the situation under the bridge at Trade Fair Complex, along Lagos-Badagry Express Road is so bad that some commuters now pay N100 to touts so as to carry them on […]
Continue ReadingFormer President, Olusegun Obasanjo and 393 other passengers, escaped a plane crash in Lagos. According to reports, the former president was among the passengers onboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane that found it difficult to land at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The Ethiopian Airlines aircraft, ET-901, had departed the Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, at […]
Continue ReadingA young Nigerian lady identified as Adewara Damilola Blessings, said to be a student of Ogun State Institute Of Technology, Igbesa, has reportedly killed herself by drinking deadly insecticide known as sniper. Yetunde Oluwatobi Omidiji, who describes herself as a close friend of the deceased, disclosed that Damilola left no clue for her friends […]
Continue ReadingPolice detectives from Ondo State Command are on the trail of a man, who allegedly sold his mother with hunchback to suspected ritualists for seven million naira (N7million). Police are also on the trail of the suspected ritualists, who are believed to have targeted the 60 year-old victim, because of her hunchback. The woman identified […]
Continue ReadingBridegroom’s sudden passing just 2 hours after his church wedding has caused serious grief among his family and community members. A 45-year-old man identified as Felix Rwang Danjuma, a native of Rim district in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, died at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) – two hours after his wedding […]
Continue ReadingWe marked the World Water Day on March 22 with a damning statistic: over 60 million Nigerians do not have access to safe drinking water. In simpler English, they get their water from unhealthy sources, such as streams and ponds. I will deliberately leave out the stinking statistics on the 47 million still practising open […]
Continue ReadingIt was, as far as I can remember, the second time in over three decades that I would observe such grief. The first was in 1986 when Dele Giwa, the pioneer editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine was assassinated by a parcel bomb. The second only recently happened after the tragedy of March 10, when an Ethiopian aircraft crashed […]
Continue ReadingPeople believed to be herdsmen have killed 16 persons during an attack on Ebete community in Agatu local government area of Benue state, Nigeria. The herders were said to have attacked the community at 1am on Wednesday, opening fire on residents and setting houses ablaze. Adeyemi Yekini, force commander, Operation Whirl Stroke, an army task […]
Continue ReadingAn Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), has been shot dead by suspected herdsmen, at Umuachi-Afor community, Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria. Until his death, the ASP was attached to the Ashaka police divisional headquarters, according to Vanguard newspaper. He was reported to have led a team of police officers in search of […]
Continue Reading71-year-old retired Colonel has been jailed for 25 years over the killing of one Felix Esan in Ekiti State. The retired Army Officer, Richard Ogunboyo was sentenced on Tuesday, by a High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The convict, who was the head of a vigilante group in Iyin Ekiti, was said to have committed […]
Continue ReadingSad. A Nigerian man has taken to his social media handle to narrate a very horrible event that happened to his friend. He wrote: “Ladies please stop the act of pressing phone while cooking with gas it is dangerous, I am so hurt. None of us will die young oo, rest in peace annyfat […]
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