Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex sociocultural Igbo organization, has urged the Buhari-led federal government to look into the case of former deputy Senate president Ike Ekweranmadu, who is accused of stealing organs in the UK. The Federal Government will not meddle in any local or international legal battle involving Ekweranmadu, according to a statement attributed to…
At least 40 people have been killed and 45 injured in a fire in a church in the Egyptian city of Giza, according to two security sources. An electrical fire broke out during mass as 5,000 people gathered at the Coptic Abu Sifin church in the Imbaba neighbourhood on Sunday, the sources said. The fire…
Three siblings were killed when a house collapsed in Tarai village of Kibiya Local Government Area of Kano State. The father of the deceased siblings, Abubakar Usman, disclosed this when the executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Saleh Jili, led a delegation on a condolence visit to the village on Saturday, August…
Suspected cultists have killed two men alleged to be members of rival cult groups at Ogbogboro community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The deceased identified as Tuesday Fati, 30, the owner of a guest house in the community, and Famizibe Clarkson, 25, were killed inside their apartment on August 11. It was gathered…
It has been revealed that as many as 27 escapees from the Kuje Medium custodial centre have so far been recaptured, according to Daily Trust. Members of the Islamic States of West Africa Province had on July 5 attacked the Kuje correctional centre and freed 64 of their members and others. Security operatives on the…
Former Nigerian ambassador to the Philippines Yemi Farounbi made some startling declarations regarding Nigeria’s top citizen. President Muhammadu Buhari, according to Farounbi, is Nigeria’s atonement from God. Farounbi who is a veteran broadcast journalist also said he was not surprised that this is happening because Nigerians were warned during the 2014/2015 presidential campaign about President…
On August 13, as people of the state were doing cleaning exercises in the communities, a few repentant insurgents were on the streets of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, pleading for forgiveness from them. The Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), along with the government of Borno state, conducted the sanitation exercise. Some of the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been told to sack Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment and Mallam Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, including all those involved in the negotiation team with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over non-performance. The Founder, One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj ji made the call on Friday.Maharaj…
The police in Kogi state have arrested a fifty-year-old man identified as Dauda Ibrahim who hails from Idah in Idah Local Government Area, over the alleged kidnapping and killing of his fifteen-year-old daughter, Sherifah for ritual purpose. The suspect who is said to be a staff of the Federal Polytechnic, Idah in the department of Works and…
Bandits have again killed no fewer than sixteen persons in different communities of Taraba State. It was learned that the bandits stormed the communities in their numbers at the weekend and whisked away several persons. Communities invaded by the attackers are Gidado and Garinkuka villages in Gunduma district of Mutum-Biyu chiefdom in Gassol Local Government…