• As Buhari urges faithful to feed the poor The much expected Ramadan for 2022 commences today, Saturday, April 2, 2022, the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has announced. He declared Saturday as the first day of Ramadan 1443 AH in […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari (right); Chadian President, Lt. Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby; Director General, NIA, Amb. Ahmed Rufai and Nigerian Ambassador to Chad, Sadique Abubakar during Deby’s official visit to the State House Abuja…yesterday Photo: Philip Ojisua • Name, Prosecute Terrorism Sponsors Without Further Delay, Says Yoruba Ronu • Rejig Heads Of Security Agencies To Reflect […]
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Reasons why a former envoy, Ambassador Sola Iji, should be elected as Senator in the forthcoming 2023 elections to represent Ondo South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, have been canvassed by his campaign organisation. A statement on Friday by the Director General, Ambassador Sola Iji Campaign Organisation (ASICO,) Onibudo ‘Wole Iroaye, said: “Research has […]
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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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