Youths in Edo state came out in their numbers to stage a peaceful protest to demand the disbandment of SARS.
The protesters carried different placards with inscriptions ”End SARS before they end us”, ”End SARS brutality now”.
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday reduced the Monetary Policy Rate to 12.5 percent. The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, announced the decision of the Committee in Abuja, at the end of its virtual 273rd meeting. The committee had retained the MPR at 13.5 percent at the last MPC…
Conditions have been given by Fulani herdsmen before open grazing can be stopped in Nigeria. Herdsmen under the umbrella of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore said they are willing to quit open grazing if government would make finance and logistics available for them to create alternatives to open grazing. The herdsmen said thay cannot suddenly…
Tension has enveloped Ulogwe-Isumpe community in Utagbe-Unor, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State as an unnamed housewife reportedly stabbed her husband to death over a domestic disagreement. The deceased, identified as Oluchi, was said to have been stabbed by the wife with a kitchen knife. it was gathered that a domestic disagreement ensued…
114 inmates who escaped from Kabba Correctional Centre in Kogi state have been re-arrested. Recall that gunmen stormed Kabba Correctional Centre in the early hours of Monday, September 13, killing two security operatives and freeing 240 inmates. After the incident, Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, said a special task force has been “activated” to recapture the fleeing inmates. 114 inmates…
The fourth wife of the First-Class Emir of Jama’a Emirate in Kaduna state, Alhaji Muhammad Isa Muhammad II is dead. The sad news was announced on Monday, September 13, by Council Secretary of Jama’a Emirate, Alhaji Yakubu Isa Muhammad (Dokajen Jama’a). Remains of late Hajiya Zainab Muhammad has since been buried according to Islamic rites…
The O’odua Peoples Congress has slammed the former Chief of Army Staff, Abdurahman Dambazau (retd) for likening them, as well as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to Boko Haram. It was reported that the former Chief of Army Staff, on Saturday compared the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) with…