Some lawmakers in the United Kingdom parliament have reported President Muhammadu Buhari to the Secretary-General of Commonwealth over the unabating spate of killings in the country. The British lawmakers wrote the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland QC, over widespread violence in Nigeria. These lawmakers include Caroline Cox, David Alton, Jin Shannon and Helena Kennedy. According to…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, hassaid that come Monday, September 28, it will be embarking on a nationwide protest over the increment in fuel and electricity prices. The organised labour on September 16 gave the Federal government two weeks ultimatum to reverse the increase on both commodities…
It was another black Wednesday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, as over 30 persons were burnt alive when a tanker collided with a tricycle popularly known as Keke NAPEP. The incident which happened at about 9 am on Wednesday also saw a family of six burnt to ashes in a Toyota Sienna bus. The…
A combined team of policemen and members of vigilante groups have arrested three suspected bandits in their hideout in a forest at the Igbeti-Kishi area of Oyo State. This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state (PPRO), SP Olugbenga Fadeyi. Fadeyi said the…
Reno Omokri has taken to his Instagram page to once again tackle Nigerians who are addicted to the reality TV show, Big Brother Naija. In a post shared social media, Reno challenged viewers of the show to enumerate the moral lessons they have learned while watching the show. His post reads ”You use your profile to…
The son of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Babajide Akeredolu has threatened to sue his father’s deputy, Agboola Ajayi over the alleged false accusation that he siphoned the sum of N433 million from the State’s coffers. According to Babajide, who described the allegation by the Deputy Governor as malicious and deliberate attempt to malign…
The Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC), Ejigbo LCDA, Lagos State has warned the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to fish out the commercial driver who killed one of its officers at Iyana Ejigbo bus stop yesterday. An officer, Nsude Chika attached to Iyana Ejigbo was reportedly knocked down by a commercial vehicle (LT)…
President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Luka Binniyat, said pastors and their families who live in the area paid up to N420m as a ransom to Fulani herdsmen in 2019. Binniyat said contrary to President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim that the killing of Christians is a cultural thing, there is a government-sponsored displacement drive…
The Debt Management Office, DMO, has announced that the total debt stock of Nigeria rose to N31 trillion as of June 2020. It also said the debts are expected to rise this year following more debts to be sourced from international financiers. As of March 2020, the debt was at N28.6trn comprising all debts of…
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has advised men to never eye their wife’s money. Reno who dropped another of his nuggets on Instagram told men to make their own money because their wife’s money isn’t theirs. According to him, the man is the head and the head is designed to carry…