Author: Olabanji Ayoola

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed grief over the killing of 45 farmers following renewed hostilities in Lafia, Obi and Awe local government areas of Nasarawa State. In a statement by one of his spokesmen Garba Shehu, President Buhari said the sympathies of the entire nation were with the affected families. “I assure the people with […]

Over 2,500 Nigerians have signed petitions demanding the release of female soldier Sofiyat Akinlabi, detained by the Nigerian Army for accepting a corp member’s marriage proposal. The Army said the gesture flouted its rules and code of conduct. Army authorities had disclosed that the now-detained female officer would be punished for violating extant military laws […]

A Chief Magistrates’ court in Yaba, Lagos, has granted five Dowen College students bail after a conspiracy and homicide charge was made against them by the police. The court granted the students bail in the sum of N1 million each, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The minors have been remanded in a juvenile home […]

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has threatened to take legal actions against the Nigerian Army over what he described as the “illegal detention” of three Lagosians at the Bonny Camp in Lagos State. In a statement on Tuesday, Falana, who is the Interim Chair of the Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 and Beyond, said the […]

FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi To ease travel during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Federal Road Safety Corps said it has mobilised over 30,000 personnel for its special patrol, tagged, ‘Operation Zero Tolerance to Road Traffic Crashes.’ The Corps also said it would equally deploy body cameras and ambulances in 46 points in […]

Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu left; a corps member holding a ring as he knelt to ask the female soldier to marry him The National Youth Service Corps on Tuesday broke its silence on a corps member who made a marriage proposal to a female soldier saying the Nigerian Army will […]

In this report by Dogara Bitrus, a 26-year-old woman, Hussaina Saleh, recounts how she was kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 and taken to Sambisa forest; her escape from the insurgents and self-development efforts at an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Borno Following the closure of internally displaced persons’ camps in Maiduguri by the Borno […]

Aisha Buhari with President Muhammadu Buhari after a trip from Turkey on Sunday Amid pregnancy rumors, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has ordered all members of her staff to proceed on an indefinite leave. This was announced in a terse statement on Tuesday by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Health […]