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Gbenga Odogun The Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Ayuba Edeh, has confirmed the arrest of two persons for embarking on a smear campaign against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in Lokoja. Speaking with our correspondent on Monday in Lokoja, the CP said around 2.30am on Monday, personnel of the command arrested two young […]

Peter Dada, Akure Tragedy struck in Ifira Akoko community in the Akoko South East Local Government Area of Ondo State on Easter Sunday as the lifeless body of a man, Fredrick Aramuwa, was found beside the road.It was gathered that Aramuwa, who was a pastor in Lagos State, was earlier abducted by hoodlums on the […]

Eniola Akinkuotu, Ada Wodu, Tukur Muntari, Tunde Oyekola, James Abraham and Patrick Odey The National Association of Resident Doctors has ordered doctors at the COVID-19 isolation centres to join the nationwide strike it began on April 1.The NARD has also threatened to impose a fine of N5m on any of its branches which fails to […]

Olalekan Adetayo, Adelani Adepegba, Chidiebube Okeoma, Gibson Achonu, Raphael Ede and Sunday Nwakanma Gunmen in the early hours of Monday attacked the Nigeria Correctional Service, Owerri, the Imo State capital and the state police command headquarters.Also on Monday, gunmen killed two persons and burnt operational vehicles of the Nigerian Army when they attacked a military […]

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Director-General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, Salihu Lukman, has said the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Convention Committee of the All Progressives Congress chaired by Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, is repeating the mistakes made by the immediate past national leadership of the ruling party. Lukman said the Adams Oshiomhole-led leadership […]

The Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Sen. Tolu Odebiyi has implored Christians nationwide to see Easter as a quiet moment to reflect, and fathom the tremendous sacrifice Jesus Christ made for mankind. The Senator, in his Easter message to the good people of Ogun West, said, “I join all Christian […]

Temiloluwa O’Peters MTN customers have been reconnected to banking channels after commercial banks had blocked them from using their channels, including the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and banking apps on Friday. The channels were blocked as a result of MTN reducing the banks’ commission on USSD airtime to 2.5 per cent.However, following the intervention by […]

Sunday Aborisade, Friday Olokor, Samson Folarin, Leke Baiyewu and Bola Bamigbola Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, the wife of the late spokesman for Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, has reacted to the outpouring of tributes in honour of her late husband.She said she wished her husband could hear what those he criticised were saying about him.Joe spoke to our […]

Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a prominent religious leader in the North, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, have recommended special courts to try bandits and kidnappers promptly.Both Obasanjo and Gumi stated this in a jointly signed communiqué issued after a closed-door meeting at the Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, on Sunday.Gumi, who led some northern […]

Olalekan Adetayo, Friday Olokor and Dayo Ojerinde Two prominent clerics, Reverend Father Matthew Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare, have advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over the high level of insecurity in Nigeria, warning that the country is rapidly descending into anarchy. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Kukah, in his Easter message […]