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By News Desk Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has cleared the air on a mix-up in the identity of a Kuje escapee. At a meeting with select media executives on Tuesday, Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, had announced the arrest of the attackers of St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo. We’ve…
By News Desk Two more high profile members of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) linked with the deadly attack on worshippers in Owo, Ondo State have been arrested, the military disclosed on Thursday. The suspects, Al-Qasim Idris and Abdulhaleem Idris, were apprehended at Omialafara (Omulafa) in Ose Council Area of Ondo State….
By News Desk The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has implemented appointment-based entry into passport offices across the country. The policy was announced on Wednesday at a workshop for officers and men of the Provost and Servicom Units of NIS Zone A Lagos, NAN reports. The seminar was organized by officer in-charge of the zone, Assistant…
By Aliyu Musa Nasidi The New Nigerian People’s Party ( NNPP) senatorial candidate for Kogi West Senatorial district, Hon. Abubakar Ibuku Muhammed Bukky, has promised to embark on massive infrastructural development across communities of the district, if elected as senator on February16. Bukky made the promise while addressing NNPP teaming supporters from Kogi West at…
By Musa Nasidi Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has admonished personnel of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, to be firm and courageous in the discharge of their responsibilities. The minister gave the advice on Wednesday in Kaduna during the passing out parade of some NCoS personnel. He described the correctional facilities as “sacred and inviolable”,…
By Aliyu Nasidi The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oladaya Amao says air strikes have succeeded in killing one of the terrorists’ kingpins, Alhaji Shanono. This was contained in a statement on Thursday, by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet. He promised that the operatives would…
By Musa Shatima Nasidi The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has asked his counterpart in the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, to call his supporters to order, warning that “falsehood and disinformation will not win elections”. The APC presidential candidate, in a statement by his campaign organisation, on Wednesday,…
By News Desk A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Southwest, Chief Bode George, on Wednesday, called on angry members of the party to sheathe their swords for the benefit of the party. George, who urged the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to reach out to aggrieved persons, also pleaded with the…
By Adamu Abdullahi The Kwara State government has reacted to a viral video showing Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq getting booed at a public event. As seen in the video that went viral, Gov Abdulrazq was almost mobbed but security operatives quickly surrounded him and took him out of the event. This is as the crowd continued…
By our reporter Ondo Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has said that Idris Ojo was not part of the terrorists that carried that the June 5th terrorists attack in St Francis Catholic Church, Owo. Ojo was among the five suspects the military named as those arrested in connection to the Owo terror attack. Incidentally, Ojo was among…
