Author: Olabanji Ayoola

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has visited Kaduna in furtherance to his campaigns, seeking delegates and peoples support in actualising his ambition of becoming Nigeria’s president in the coming 2023 elections. Interacting with the Peoples Democratic Party’s delegates on Tuesday at the party’s secretariat, he promised to address issues of power devolution to states and […]

A 62-year-old retired banker, Mr Kazeem Ogidan on Wednesday sought the dissolution of his 36-year-old marriage to wife, Risikat in an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos. In his petition, Ogidan, accused his wife of beating him. Ogidan, who resides in Lowcost Estate in Ikorodu, begged the court to grant him divorce. ”My wife beats me, […]

Kanu and his lawyers The Federal Government has amended the charges against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. A counsel for the IPOB leader who made this known also said the Federal Government listed some lawyers representing Kanu as accomplices of the defendant. Among the lawyers said to be indicted […]

Controversy is trailing the death of an undergraduate student of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, identified simply as Oromidayo, in his hostel room in Ibadan, Oyo State. Another student, a female, suspected to be his lover was said to be in a coma as doctors battled to revive her at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. There are, […]

‘Support for separatists unacceptable’ The Federal Government has cautioned Facebook and other social media platforms against yielding their platforms to the members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) allegedly to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in Nigeria. It gave the warning through Information, Culture and Tourism Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at a meeting […]

Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, who attended a valedictory session last Friday with President Muhammadu Buhari are attending this week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Ministers with eight others, who indicated interests in contesting various offices in 2023 general […]

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday dismissed allegations of corruption against some of its top officers. A statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in Abuja, said some aggrieved personnel wrote an open letter to the president, accusing top army officers of corruption. An online report had emerged on Monday that some aggrieved […]

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, declined to grant bail to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, pending the determination of the treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him. Justice Nyako held that Kanu must explain the reason he breached the previous […]