Author: Olabanji Ayoola

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday met behind closed doors with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The meeting lasted for about fourty-five minutes at the Vice President’s office in the State House. Neither of both spoke to journalists at the end of the meeting. The Ooni had paid similar visit to President Muhammadu […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Thursday supported the open letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as timely. It advised the President to scrutinise the contents of the letter and curb the insecurity in the country which it said informed the letter in the first place. Responding to […]

Petitioners’ Witness 59, David Njoga, called by the petitioners as an expert witness, told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Friday that the server results presented by the petitioners as the authentic results of the February 23, 2019 election were released by an anonymous official of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Njoga, called by the […]

The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has denied People’s Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s request for more time to conclude their case. Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Mohammed Garba, ruled that the tribunal will continue with proceedings till later in the day to enable the petitioners to conclude their case. Chris Uche, PDP’s […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed rising security challenges in Africa on illegal financial activities, even as he charged intelligence and security agencies to tighten the noose on illicit flows. He stated this in a keynote address at the opening session of the 16th Conference of the Committee of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA) […]

President Muhammadu Buhari (right) and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II at the State House, Abuja … on Thursday Leaders shouldn’t keep silent on insecurity – Jonathan We won’t leave South West – Herders We aren’t returning to North, Fulani in South East reply NEF We believe in stability, unity of Nigeria […]

President Muhammadu Buhari (right) and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II at the State House, Abuja … on Thursday The Custodian of the Throne of Oduduwa, the ancestral father of the Yoruba speaking people worldwide and foremost Royal Father, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Thursday said that his people do not want to experience any […]

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams declared on Thursday that Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, would work with the governors to strengthen security in all Yoruba states. Towards this end, he said that they were having meetings of different organizations to have a synergy with the state governments in the region. He spoke […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday assured Nigerians that the country would get above its insecurity issues in no distant time. He gave the assurance at the public presentation of a book ”Not by Might, Nor by Power” and the launch of the Nicholas Okoh Foundation in Abuja. He said that insecurity had been with […]

The Senate on Thursday, approved the appointment of  Mr Aliyu Abubakar, as a non-executive commissioner on the board of the National Communications Commission Abubakar, from Bauchi State, was nominated to represent the North-East last week on the board by President Muhammadu Buhari for the same position despite his rejection by the eighth Senate because of low educational […]