United States-bound passengers departing Nigeria are likely to face connection delays in Europe, Middle East and other major hubs’ airport as major airlines cancelled and rescheduled their flights to the United over 5G rollout in the US. Major international airlines announced suspension and modification of flights to the US amid uncertainty about potential interference between…
Claims by the federal government that Nnamdi Kanu denied being a member and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra in court has been refuted. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, denied the claim on Thursday. Ejiofor described the claim by the Federal Government’s counsel, Shuaibu Labaran, as false and misleading. Labaran had said Kanu…
The lawsuit filed by former Presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, challenging the operations of Twitter in Nigeria has been thrown out by the Federal High Court in Abuja. According to the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, Justice Abubakar gave the ruling on Wednesday. Garba, had in 2020 asked the court to ban Twitter from operating…
The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has asked the Buhari-led administration to enforce death penalty for drug dealers, ritualists and terrorists threatening security in the country. He said the false courage from taking hard drugs has pushed terrorists to point of no mercy. He advised the federal government to take strict action against…
Powerful accused the Army of criminal misrepresentation of facts against IPOB and ESN claiming that arrested criminals were ESN members. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said persons killed by the Nigerian army in Lilu area of Anambra state are not members of the secessionist group. IPOB said it has no camp in Lilu,Ihiala…
Jonathan Ogbe, a member of the National Youth Service Corps attached to the Asamabiri Community Primary School in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has abandoned his one-year compulsory national service after being accused of defiling a 12-year-old pupil. The accused corps member has since refused to pick up his discharge certificate to avoid…
A man, Oyedele Nutai Joseph, and his wife, Elizabeth Joseph, were on Tuesday, January 18, arrested by men of Ogun state police command for unlawfully invading Toyon High school Ere village in Ado Odo area of Ado Odo ota local government, with thugs to attack a teacher Abel Thomas for beating their son Joshua Joseph…
A yet-to-be-identified man has been electrocuted while trying to steal transformer cables in Lambu village in Tofa Local Government Area of Kano. It was gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning, January 19. A resident of the village, Naziru Lambu, told Daily Trust that the man who was electrocuted had already succeeded in…
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra has defeated the federal government in court. This comes after an Abia State High Court presided over by Hon. Justice Benson Anya in Umuahia, the state capital on Wednesday awarded N1bn damage in favour of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi…
Alhaji Danladi Pasali, the Coordinator of Buhari Campaign Organisation, has passed on. Pasali who was President Buhari’s chief campaigner during the 2015 and 2019 general elections, reportedly died at a hospital in Abuja on Tuesday afternoon. His younger brother, Ali Pasali confirmed his demise in Jos, Plateau State capital. Ali was quoted saying; “Our brother…