Category: News

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri There was panic in Imo State on Friday and Saturday as gunmen murdered seven suya sellers. PUNCH Metro learnt that the traders were killed in separate shootings in Orlu and Umuaka in the Njaba Local Government Area of the state. An eyewitness, Harisu Ishiaku, said that the suspected killers, who were dressed […]

Leke Baiyewu The Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Toby Okechukwu, has insisted that the reports of the 2014 National Conference and the All Progressives Congress’ Committee on True Federalism must be considered in the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution by the National AssemblyOkechukwu stated that the reports would be demanded […]

Olalekan Adetayo The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday advised a former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, to eschew politics of division and acrimony among others as he is getting close to becoming a septuagenarian.Buhari made the call while congratulating Oshiomhole on his 69th birthday.His congratulatory message was […]

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Dr. Olu Agunloye has charged all Christians in the Country to be embrace peace, unity and progress, this he stated while congratulating the Christians on the celebration of this year’s Easter. According to him, Easter is the joyful end of the season of fasting and penitence […]

Attention of the Ondo State House of Assembly has been drawn to news making the rounds that the Rt. Honourable Speaker, Oleyelogun Bamidele David and some Members of the House were invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The House wish to state unequivocally that the news was nothing but a ruse calculated at […]

The honourable member representing Ondo West Constituency 1 at the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Tomide Akinribido, has felicitated Christians in his constituency on this year’s Easter celebration. Hon. Akinribido in his Easter message congratulated Christians across his constituency, for witnessing this year’s Easter celebration and urged them to accentuate the reflection of the […]

As part of his efforts to ensure dividend of Democracy is brought to the people of Odigbo & Ileoluji/okeigbo Federal constituency, Chief Abiye Adefisayo (The Baale Of Alagbede Community) today commissioned an industrial borehole at Orita Alagbade Community in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State on behalf of Rt. Honourable Mayowa Akinfolarin. Speaking at […]

Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Heads of Advertising Sectoral Groups have kicked against comments reportedly made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that Nigerian brands running adverts on foreign owned media channels would be fined. HASG is a body made up of advertisers, advertising agencies, media agencies, marketing activation agencies, out-of-home media agencies […]

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe and Wale Oyewale • Oyo traders protest overnight raid of rice stores Controversy has trailed the invasion of the Better Life section of the Ikotun Market in Lagos State by men of the Nigeria Customs Service. While some of the traders claimed that the law enforcement officers carted away local rice, including the […]

Patrick Odey, Uyo A special tactical squad of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command on Monday, March 29, 2021, stormed a kidnappers’ hideout in Mbiaso community, in the Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of the state. The operatives, who killed three of the hoodlums during a gun battle, also exhumed the body of a businessman […]