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Governors of the northeast region have asked the military to sustain its momentum in the fight against insurgency in the region by taking advantage of the current division among the insurgents. The governors made the call on Tuesday at the 5th edition of the North East Governors’ Forum held at the Taraba State Government House […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commended the nation’s security and intelligence agencies for their work in arresting secessionist Nnamdi Kanu and raiding the home of ‘Yoruba Nation’ activist Sunday Igboho. The President’s praise was contained in a statement signed by his spokesperson Garba Shehu. According to the statement, President Buhari said the security agencies demonstrated […]
Richard Donner, a prolific filmmaker who directed the first “Superman” movie, “The Goonies,” and other blockbuster hits, died on Monday at age 91, US media reported. Donner’s other credits include the 1976 horror classic “The Omen,” the “Lethal Weapon” cop franchise with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover starting in 1987, “Scrooged” (1988) and his final […]
The Kaduna State Government has established a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) strike of May 2021, with Justice Ishaq Bello, a retired Judge as chairman. This was contained in a statement signed on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Media and Communication, Mr Muyiwa Adekeye. He […]
The first batch contingent of Team Nigeria today, July 6 left for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team members departed through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. The Director, Federation of Elites Athletes Department (FEAD), Simeon Ebhojiaye in a statement explained that the members include the Canoeing team – Ayomide Bello and her coach Ebenezer Ukwunna; […]
Police in the United Kingdom have said that a Nigerian-born footballer, Odichukumma Kelvin Igweani, after killing a neighbour. UK-based newspapers, DailyMail and TheSUN quoted the police as alleging that the 24-year-old Nigerian also held a toddler captive. The police said Richard Woodcock, a 38-year-old council highways officer had raced to help after hearing screams during […]
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has asked the Federal Government to apologise to Sunday Igboho after officials of the Department of State Services invaded his home and killed two of his associates. The DSS invaded Igboho’s house in Ibadan, Oyo State, early on Thursday based on intelligence it said it had received that he was stockpiling […]
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has threatened to cripple Nigeria should anything happen to its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS) following his re-arrest on Sunday, June 27. The separatist group also said that Nnamdi Kanu should be allowed access to his lawyers, […]
The Senate has approved the sum of N74,773,601,916 billion as the 2021 budget for the Nigeria Police Trust Fund. The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Police Affairs during plenary on Wednesday. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Dauda Halliru […]
The World Igbo Congress (WIC) is calling on the Nigerian authorities to ensure the safety of the self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, saying the rights of the secessionist leader must be protected. Kanu who jumped bail in 2017 was rearrested and brought back to Nigeria on Tuesday. He is facing […]
