Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose on Monday, said he had warned Nigerians about the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari. He said this in reaction to the death of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of the Afenifere, who was killed in Ondo State on Friday. On his…
A trader, Mrs Ajayi, 52, told an Igando Customary Court that she slept with her brother-in-law because she thought he was her husband. Ajayi’s husband, Akande, is seeking the dissolution of their 35-year marriage, accusing her of infidelity. ”I was in bed when my husband’s younger brother came to the house my husband rented for…
Pandemonium broke out in Adao community in Alabata area of Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State after two suspected herdsmen allegedly stabbed a 49-year-old farmer, identified as Rafiu Showemimo, to death. Our correspondent gathered that the heinous act was perpetrated on Sunday when the deceased was on his way back home from his farm…
The Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has taken a swipe at the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the administration has failed Nigerians over its approach to the herders/farmers’ crisis and other security problems bedeviling the country. Soyinka said this on Sunday at his residence in Ijegba, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while playing…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has said it will continue to bear the cost of subsidy on petrol. It, however, said it could not tell when the corporation would stop fuel subsidy. The NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, recently stated that the price of petrol in most West African countries was higher than N300…
Orji Uzor Kalu, the Chief Whip of the Senate has said that some of his colleagues were already lamenting their poor pay contrary to their expectations before they were elected. Kalu, who addressed journalists in Abuja on Saturday, also promised to unveil details of all what a senator earns very soon. He said, “Let me address…
Fresh facts emerged on Saturday that herdsmen have converted the Ondo Government reserve located in the Odigbo Local Government Area into a militia camp. This indication buttressed the widespread claim that killers of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, 58-year-old daughter of the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, were herdsmen who sneaked out of…
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Saturday, said that Yoruba were not bereft of ideas of how to stop herdsmen attacks in the South West. He sais this while reacting to the death of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, who was killed on Friday…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the present administration has invested N900 billion in the power sector since its assumption of office in 2015. Osinbajo stated this when he paid a courtesy visit on the Asagba of Asaba, Prof. Chike Edozien on Friday in Asaba. ”Since assumption of office, we have invested so far in terms…
Yinka Odumakin, spokesperson for Afenifere says the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin is a declaration of war on Yoruba people. Odumakin said herdsmen attacked and killed Mrs Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere on the Benin-Ore road. Odumakin said: “When they started with the kidnapping process, they started…