Ali Namadi, the winner of last Saturday’s local government election in Bebeji Local Government Area of Kano State is dead.
His campaign’s public relations officer, Ibrahim Tiga said he died around 1:00 a.m on Tuesday, January 19.
The cause of his death is not yet known. Tiga however said the funeral prayers will take place in his hometown, Bebeji, on Tuesday morning.
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has described the recent nationwide EndSARS movement as one of the issues that found expression in his latest novel, which captures the impending dangers of a desperate society. Soyinka noted that the more Nigeria decays and betrayals are encountered, it points to a future of implosion where the people have…
According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as of Monday, June 27, 7 a.m., there were 10,487,972 new registrations in the current nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). The was revealed in the commission’s CVR weekly update, which was made public on June 27 in Abuja. The paper states that 8,631,696 registrations were successfully completed…
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday, swore in a 12-member ad hoc committee to liaise with the management of the National Assembly on housekeeping issues The committee, which has as Chairman, Senator Abubakar Kyari, is expected to work out the allocation of seats in the chamber as well as the allocation of…
Bandits operating in Zamfara and Katsina States who abducted 85 women and children in the Wanzamai community of Tsafe local government area in Zamfara State have finally agreed to collect N20,000 from each of the victims amounting to N1.7 million. The bandits also demanded that military operatives deployed to Wanzamai village should be relocated to…
A popular market on Lagos Island, Balogun Market, has been gutted by fire. It was learned that the fire affected a plaza in the market where Ladies’ shoes are sold. Firefighters from two divisions of Lagos Fire Service had been deployed to the scene to put out the fire. The inferno was confirmed via a…
A Nigerian woman and her two children, both under 10, were burnt to death in a fire outbreak that occurred inside her one-room apartment in Alikor estate in Choba, Rivers state today April 28th. According to reports. the fire is suspected to have been caused by the kerosene the woman sells. Her body and those of…