Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he had no quarrel with the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams. The former president said he had refused to grant Adams’ request to visit him when he was president and after he left the office. Obasanjo said he had a reservation for Adams’ past way of life, which…
Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari should resign and allow a more competent hand to pilot the affairs of the nation. Renewing its call for the resignation of Buhari, the group said the President has failed as the Commander in Chief. The Spokesman of the group, Hakeem Baba Ahmed, said this…
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says, the killing of 45 farmers in Borno state does not reflect the progress made against Boko Haram insurgents by the military. Addressing a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday, Mohammed said the killing is an act of cowardice and savagery “by a group of deranged terrorists”….
Some suspected killers of the traditional ruler of Ifon in Ose local government, Oba Israel Adeusi, the Olufon of Ifon, have been arrested. The identity of the suspects was yet to be made public because of the ongoing investigation into the killing. They were arrested by a combined team of security operatives that stormed Elegbaka…
A midnight inferno on Tuesday razed Oja Tuntun, one of the biggest markets in Ile-Ife, Osun State, and destroyed millions of goods. The fire, as it was gathered started around 11:30 pm on Tuesday from a shop and spread to other parts of the market. As of the time of this report, the cause of…
An Assistant Commissioner of Police serving in No. 73 PMF Squadron, Magumeri, Borno state, ACP Egbe Eko Edum has been reportedly axed to death in Calabar, Cross River State Capital by unknown men. The attack took place in the early hours of Wednesday, December 2, at about 1:00 am along Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar…
A lieutenant of the Nigerian Army, Josiah Peter was killed in a clash between the men of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and smugglers in Oyo state a month to his wedding. It has been gathered that the deceased soldier was set to wed Mercy Chikodili Ogbonnaya on December 13, at St Peter’s Military Church in…
A lady identified as Chinenye and her boyfriend, Chinedu Nwode were killed by suspected cultists at the Oriuzor community in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi state on Sunday, November 29. The killings reportedly followed a renewed clash between two rival cults in the state, the Baggers and Aye confraternities. It was gathered that the…
Car owners in the country will have to pay N250,000 to convert their cars to autogas. Justice Derefaka, Technical Adviser on Gas Business and Policy Implementation to Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva who appeared on a Channels Television programme on Wednesday December 2 after the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),…
A total of five children have gone missing from the Stella Obasanjo Motherless Children’s Home in Abeokuta, Ogun state. In a statement released by the Commissioner for Information, Abdulwaheed Odusile, on Tuesday, December 1, the state government said the children ‘escaped” from the home which is owned by the state government. “The state government has…