In a petition dated May 10, 2021, the Ali Moibi-Balogun Family of Odo-Egiri Town in Eredo Local Council Development Area of Lagos seeks Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s intervention after armed herdsmen forcefully took over their land and erected structures on it. In this interview with Victor Ayeni, the lawyer for the Ali Moibi-Balogun family, Adeyemi Adegbite, […]
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Chairman South West Governors Forum and Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN AMID raging calls for secession, South-West governors of the All Progressives Congress are expected to attend a meeting at the Lagos House, Marina, on Sunday, May 23, 2021. The meeting, it was learnt, is being convened by a former interim Chairman of the […]
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Southern Governors at the Asaba Meeting A splinter northern caucus has emerged in the House of Representatives. The group is moving to push the interests of minorities in the North, it has been learnt. The group, which is dominated by lawmakers from the North-Central geopolitical zone, as well as Southern Kaduna and other parts of […]
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The Police Command in Anambra says three persons have been confirmed dead in a clash between Omor and Anaku communities in Anyamelum Local Government Area of the state. DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Sunday that normalcy has since been restored in […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan said in Benin on Sunday that he never believed in the use of temporary political office to punish people. “My belief, particularly when I joined politics is not to use a temporary privilege, a temporary position God has given to me to punish people,’’ he said. He was delivering an address […]
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors will converge on Ibadan Monday to discuss the nation’s worsening insecurity. It would be the second of such meeting after the one the governors held in Makurdi, the Benue State capital in April, 2021. The agenda of the meeting released by the Director-General of the PDP Governors Forum, Hon CID […]
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An 18-year-old auxiliary nurse, Rachael David, has relived her close shave with death at a suspected ritual killers’ den in Rivers State after she was kidnapped at Okuru Junction, Port Harcourt. Rachael, who is currently receiving treatment in a hospital, regained her freedom around 5pm on Friday. It was learnt that the teenager had gone […]
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A Peoples Democratic Party group, Alliance for PDP South-West, has come up with a list of 11 party chieftains from the South-West for the national chairmanship position of the party. On the list are a former Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola; former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Chief Olabode George; and former Ekiti State governors, […]
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Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has slammed critics of Southern governors, adding that those against the communiqué issued at the end of the governors’ recent meeting in Asaba, the Delta State capital, are on expired drugs. The activist, in a video uploaded on her Twitter handle on Saturday, said nobody has the monopoly of intolerance […]
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By Tony Ademiluyi Boko Haram, which was founded in 2002 by the late Mohammed Yusuf assumed a militant and deadly approach in 2009 after his untimely death in the hands of the security agencies. Borno, Yobe and Adamawa became theatres of war overnight as bombs were freely detonated with alarming alacrity. Abuja, the political capital […]
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