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One of the houses of Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho in Soka, Ibadan wasrazed by suspected arsonists. The fire, which reportedly started around 3 am on Tuesday, destroyed some parts of the house. However, firefighters from the Oyo State Fire Service arrived on the scene a few hours after to douse…
A former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has cleared the air on hints and rumours of his alleged plan to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Okorocha said he is still a member of the party and has no plans of leaving, urging the public to disregard the speculations. According to the…
One person has been confirmed dead during a clash between some youths in Aguda area of Surulere, Lagos, on Sunday. The Police Command’s Public Relations Officer in the state, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Olumuyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident in a statement in Lagos, NAN reports. Adejobi said that 12 suspects have been arrested in…
The decision of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State to sack his commissioners after one year has elicited mixed reactions. While the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has described the former commissioners as inexperienced and incompetent, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said the governor and members of his team have redefined Kwara in many…
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said 4,000 inmates have been freed so far under the Federal Government Amnesty Programme to decongest custodial centres in the country. The Minister disclosed this on Thursday at the pulling out parade organised in honour of the Controller General of the Nigeria Corrections Centre, Alhaji Ja’afaru Ahmed….
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari on the worsening security situation in the country. The letter was titled: “AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI BY THE ALAAFIN OF OYO, OBA LAMIDI OLAYIWOLA ADEYEMI III.” Oba Adeyemi wrote: Yoruba Question in Nigeria Conundrum. Your Excellency, I have…
Members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have dissociated themselves from the reported claim by Kogi Governor Yahaya that coronavirus vaccines are meant to kill people and reduce population. The Governors, in a communiqué at the end of their virtual meeting on Wednesday, said their decisions and actions in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic would…
Former Governor of Sokoto state,Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has declared that Northern elders are angry with President Muhammadu Buhari over his poor handling of insecurity in the country. Speaking in Abuja yesterday, the former governor said thousands of people were displaced in the North while the government spends billions on COVID-19. He said if the North…
The Northern Elders Forum has asked herders in Ondo State not to leave their locations and resist moves to be labelled as criminals. In a statement on Wednesday, the spokesman of the group, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, told the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, to rescind the ultimatum given to herders to vacate forest reserves in the…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike with Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Wednesday donated N500 million to support the Sokoto State Government in rebuilding the Sokoto Central Market ravaged by fire on Tuesday morning. Mr Wike, who visited the scene of the market inferno barely 24 hours after the disaster,…
