By Imran Khalid “London Bridge is down” is how Sir Edward Young, Queen’s private secretary, conveyed the official news about the death of Queen Elizabeth II to Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday on the phone as per the royal protocol. With this, the reign of the longest-serving sovereign of the English monarchy’s 1,000-year history […]
Continue Reading
A portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is seen next to flowers placed outside of Buckingham Palace in London on September 11, 2022. – Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will travel by road through Scottish towns and villages on Sunday as it begins its final journey from her beloved Scottish retreat of Balmoral. The Queen, who […]
Continue Reading
Some parts of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital were on Monday morning submerged by flood following a torrential downpour that lasted for over six hours. The heavy rain, which began around 10 pm on Sunday and subsided around 3: 22am on Monday, was said to have sacked many residents from their houses with property worth […]
Continue Reading
Passengers plying the Minna-Bida Road on Monday were stranded as the road collapsed. The collapse occurred about 23 kilometres from Bida after Sagamio farms. The collapse came as a result of the heavy downpour occurring across the State in the past one week. Vehicles leaving Minna could not proceed from their journey while those returning […]
Continue Reading
Two men were on Monday swept away and nine women rescued following heavy flooding in parts of Lagos. The men were swept off by flash flood at different locations at Iyana Ipaja while the women were said to have been trapped after their residence at Mende, Maryland started sinking. The building located at 47 Akinwunmi […]
Continue Reading
Reports have emerged on how Senator Ifeanyi Ubah (YPP-Anambra South) survived Sunday’s attack on his convoy. His convoy was attacked on Sunday, September 11, 2022, around Nkwo Enugwu Ukwu Market axis of Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra while the lawmaker was on his way to Nnewi, his country home. According to reports, the armed […]
Continue Reading
President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof George Obiozor Ubah says SSS, police officers among those killed during attack YPP calls for review of South East security architecture Attack, an affront on Igbo – COSEYL As reactions trail Sunday’s attack on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah during which about six of his aides including police escorts were feared dead, the […]
Continue Reading
Says attack shows national security architecture collapse, meant to paint Igbo in bad light Cries out over lack of capacity by security agencies Members of an indigenous South East coalition have condemned Sunday’s gruesome attack on the convoy of Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Ifeanyi Ubah, saying the development was a sponsored assassination attempt […]
Continue Reading
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday called on the governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodimma, to account for N241 billion in state funds. It made this call in a statement in Owerri, through the PDP, State Publicity Secretary, Collins Opuruzor, while reacting to the planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari, to Imo state on […]
Continue Reading
Security has been tightened across the 17 local government areas of Abia State ahead of the scheduled sit-at-home order of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Tuesday for its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is expected to appear in court for trial. Sources within the security agencies said that they have beefed up security in […]
Continue Reading
