Yoruba movie star, Dejo Tunfulu has died. The news of his death was broken by his colleague, Kunle Afod, on Instagram on Friday morning. He wrote, “You posted a few days ago, Dejo Haaaaaa.” He was 50. Details of his death remain sketchy as of press time; however, his colleagues and fans have thronged his […]
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The Court of Appeal Enugu Division, on Friday, affirmed the judgement of Ebonyi High Court, Abakaliki, which quashed a suit challenging the defection of Governor David Umahi and his deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe, to the All Progressives Congress. Governor Umahi and his Deputy had on November 2020 left the PDP, a platform on which they […]
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Interior of the attacked train By Femi Adesina Haters of God and humanity struck on Monday, bombing the Abuja-Kaduna train. They then proceeded to open fire on passengers of the immobilized coaches. It was premeditated murder from the very bottom of hell. See the toll of the carnage. Promising lives, cut short. Destinies terminated. Hopes […]
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After about seven years of downplaying the severity of Nigeria’s security crisis since his principal assumed office in May 2015, Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, on Friday, finally admitted that Nigeria is at war. Adesina, in a piece titled, ‘They Hate God, They Loathe Humanity’, described the attack by terrorists on hundreds of passengers onboard an […]
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The police in Kano State have arrested a 100-year-old suspected female ritualist and two others, for allegedly plucking out the right eye of a 12-year-old boy, Mustapha Yunusa. The other suspects are aged between 16 and 17. Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Haruna, in a statement on Thursday, said the Almajiri boy […]
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Gombe State Police Command has arrested three suspects said to be specialised in dismembering body parts of corpses at the cemetery in the state, over alleged possession of human heads. The paraded suspects aged between 22 and 27 are all from Dinawa village in the Kwami Local Government Area of Gombe. According to the Public […]
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A leaked memo obtained on Thursday revealed why a proposal for security equipment along the Abuja-Kaduna rail track, which was presented to the Federal Executive Council by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, was rejected. Amaechi had while fielding questions from journalists after the train bombing that left at least eight persons dead, said he […]
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They can’t be contacted, says NRC Terrorists phone five hostages’ families Angry Reps pass vote of no confidence in security chiefs Police defuse IED at train station •Panic in FCT, Kaduna-Abuja road The fog over the number of passengers on the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train, who are missing, is getting clearer. The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) […]
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Seven commissioners and the Chief of Staff to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Festus Agas, have resigned from the Delta State Executive Council. Their resignation was triggered by Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act 2022, which stipulates that political appointees must resign their appointments before participating in the 2023 general elections, either as delegate or elective […]
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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Lagos State Government has announced that the state will experience 243 days of 1,750mm of rainfall in 2022 and it has put measures in place to tackle flooding. The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, disclosed this on Thursday during a press briefing on the 2022 […]
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