Rev Dr. Uma Ukpai, the founder and president of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association, a non-denominational gospel ministry based in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, south-south Nigeria, has kicked against Biafra agitation. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who is also the Director of Radio Biafra, is agitating for the Republic of…
A prison officer named Alfred Bassa has been laid to rest after he allegedly committed suicide because he was denied a promotion three times despite meriting it. Bassa, 28, a staff of the Nigerian Correctional Service, formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service, drank a poisonous substance on October 2, 2020, shortly after arriving at work at the…
Nigerians have criticised a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, over his call for the return of Goodluck Jonathan as President in 2023. Fani-Kayode posted a ‘#BringBackGEJ picture’ on his Twitter page, drawing the ire of Nigerians. Jonathan was Nigeria’s President from 2009 till 2015. The former President has been rumoured to be eyeing a…
President Muhammadu Buhari Has Publicly Voiced His Support For The Re-Election Bid Of Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu. The governor, who first assumed office in 2017, will hope to win a second term when voters march to the polls on Saturday, October 10, 2020. Buhari said on Wednesday, October 7 that he’s impressed with the…
The Anambra State Police Command have arrested a 21-year-old man, Nonso Umeadi Oyiboka, for allegedly stabbing his landlord to death in Ogidi Ani-Etiti in Idemili North LGA of the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Haruna Mohammed, in a statement said, the suspect was arrested on Tuesday, October 6, following a report of alleged murder of…
Ruth Klueger, renowned author and holocaust survivor dies at 88.Zsolnay, the publisher of the Austria-born scholar, Ruth Klueger, best known for a feminist memoir of her time in Nazi camps, on Wednesday in Vienna announced her passing away in California. Klueger died on Tuesday at the age of 88, following a long illness. When she…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Kogi Command has destroyed Cannabis sativa farms worth over N1.5 billion in the Agba-Okete community in Igalamela-Adolu Local Government Area of Kogi. Speaking on Tuesday evening in Kara forest belonging to the community, the Kogi Commander of the NDLEA, Mr. Alfred Adewunmi said through intelligence gathering, his officers…
Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has approved the appointment of Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli as the 19th Emir of Zazzau. Bamalli is the first emir from the Mallawa ruling house in 100 years after his grandfather, Emir Dan Sidi, died in 1920. A statement by the Commissioner of Local Government Affairs, Alhaji Ja’afaru Ibrahim Sani said…
A young Nigerian man has been murdered in the US five months after graduating from Virginia Tech where he studied industrial system engineering. Alexander Nwogu, 23, had just been hired as a tech consultant with a Northern Virginia firm, Ernst and Young, before he was murdered around 1:30 a.m. at the Shell gas station in…
Friends, colleagues, family , and members of the Ogidi Ani-Etiti in Idemili LGA of Anambra State have taken to Facebook to mourn Nonso Umeadi, who was allegedly stabbed to death by his tenant. The deceased popularly known as ‘Okpole’ was found in a pool of his own blood and rushed to Iyi Enu Mission Hospital Ogidi…