Tinubu Postpones Scheduled S’Africa, Angola Trips Over Attacks on Kwara, Kebbi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reportedly postponed his scheduled trip to South Africa for the G20 Leaders’ Summit as he awaits further security briefings from Vice President Kashim Shettima on the kidnapped Kebbi schoolgirls and the attack on Christ Apostolic…
Peter Obi Condemns Recent Bandit Attacks, Suggests Unity Among Politicians to Find Solution
Labor Party’s Peter Obi has condemned recent attacks in different parts of Nigeria in the past few days. Obi decried that the government rather than try to solve the insecurity issue in the country by uniting, is consumed by internal…
Kwara Gov Calls For Urgent Security Reinforcements After Police Said Attack on Eruku Was ‘an Attempt’
The governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has called for urgent reinforcement of security in the Ekiti Local Government Area, particularly the Eruku axis, after gunmen attacked the community on Tuesday. NEWSMAXNG reported that heavily armed men had stormed the…
Varsity Lecturers Earning Same Salary For 15 Years – ASUU Threatens Nationwide Strike as FG Stalls Settlement
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has lamented that Nigerian university lecturers have been on the same salary for the past 15 years. Speaking to newmen on Wednesday in Benin City, Edo State, ASUU Benin Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Monday Igbafen decried…
Two Dead, One Injured in Kwara Church Attack – Police Confirms
The police in Kwara State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed that two people were killed and one injured during a bandits attacks in Eruku, a boundary town in the Ekiti Local Government Area. A parish of the Christ Apostolic Church…
45 Kidnap Victims Regain Freedom in Kastina After Peace Talk With Bandits
Abductors have freed no fewer than Forty-five people who were kidnapped in Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State after renewed peace talks under the Operation Safe Corridor initiative. The development follows a negotiation involving a bandit leader identified as…
Help Us Save Nigeria’s Democracy – Turaki Begs Trump
The newly elected factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kabiru Turaki, has begged the United States President, Donald Trump and the international community to intervene in Nigeria’s worsening political situation. Speaking to journalists outside the party’s national secretariat…
Mad Man Kills Soldier in Lagos
The Nigerian Army has confirmed the death of a soldier on duty in the Imota area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, after he was attacked by a mentally unstable individual. According to the force in a statement by the acting Deputy…
One of Kebbi Abducted Schoolgirls Escapes
A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The student arrived home late Monday, hours after the kidnapping at the Government…
I Cannot Guarantee That it Won’t Happen Again – VDM Tenders Apology Over Fight With Jollof
Social media influencer and activist Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has tendered a public apology following an altercation between him and comedian Freedom Atsepoyi, widely known as Mr Jollof, which caused delays on a United Nigeria Airlines flight. In…