Leaders of various ethnic nationalities in the Niger Delta have paid a solidarity visit to Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to convey the region’s appreciation to President Bola Tinubu for including him in his cabinet. A statement issued by Dr Kingsley Kuku on Saturday, noted that the 60-member delegation of…
Reports reaching our news desk has it that the plane that crashed on Friday night in Ibadan was carrying the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu. It was gathered that the private jet operated by Flint Aero crash-landed on Friday night at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. Having departed the Abuja airport on Friday evening, the…
Troops of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) have arrested two people behind an illegal weapon manufacturing factory and recovered 20 caches of automatic weapons from the suspects in Vom, Jos South local government area of Plateau State. Addressing newsmen in Jos, Plateau State, the Media Officer, OPSH Captain Oya James, said preliminary investigation revealed that the…
BIM-MASSOB, has openly declared that the late former Biafra war lord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who died many years ago, will resurrect on November 26, 2023. This was made known on Friday in Awka, Anambra state by the leadership of Biafra Independence Movement and Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (BIM-MASSOB). According…
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Festus Keyamo has threatened to sack chief executives of the aviation agencies under his ministry than lose his own job. Keyamo spoke in Lagos at the one-day stakeholders’ meeting, the first to be held since he assumed office. Recall the ministers serving in the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government had…
A public policy think tank, group, the Neo Africana Centre, NAC, has expressed satisfaction with the decision of the Supreme Court to revisit the December 20, 2019 judgment on the Imo State governorship election of 2019. The unsettled issues around that election have led to disruptions and instability in the State political landscape, culminating in…
Ahead of the off-cycle governorship election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi state next weekend, a civil society organization (CSO), the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Center, (RULAAC) has questioned the prospects of a fair and credible election in Imo state The CSO also raised alarm over the recent attack on the President, Nigeria Labour…
Rescue efforts are ongoing in Nepal after Fridays devastating earthquake which left 150 people dead Security forces have been deployed to help rescue efforts in the rugged districts of Jajarkot and West Rukum, 500km (310 miles) west of Kathmandu. Strong tremors were felt far away in the Nepalese capital and in cities in neighbouring India,…
The family of the Asiwaju of Ado-Ekiti, late Prof. Afolabi Ojo has reportedly dragged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to the Ado- Ekiti State High Court over alleged illegal possession of their property. In the suit marked HAD/154/2022 filed by Hon. Kunle Ojo on behalf of the family, the claimants are asking the…
The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, (LAMATA) has declared the 50% fare discount on BRT will no longer be in effect from Sunday. LAMATA announced this on its page on Saturday. According to LAMATA, the temporary 50% fare cut will expire on Sunday, making normal price to resume on Monday. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on August…
