Arewa Consultative Forum has said that the detained leader of the proscribed secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, cannot be trusted and should not be granted amnesty. The pan-Northern socio-political organisation said Kanu cannot be trusted because he once jumped bail in 2017 and fled the country. ACF, therefore, urged President Muhammadu […]
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Veteran Nigerian comic actor, Babatunde Omidina fondly referred to as Baba Suwe is dead.. He died on Monday at 63. His death was announced by one of his sons, Adesola Omidina, who said: “This is to announce the sudden death of my father, Babatunde Omidina, the legend and rare gem, Baba Suwe on Monday. Details and other […]
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The family of Timothy Adegoke, the deceased master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has kicked against the plan to transfer the case to Abuja. The counsel for the family, Mr Naim Adekilekun, in a letter to the Osun Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, expressed confidence in the ability of the state […]
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The naira was trading at N545 to the dollar on the parallel market at the weekend, maintaining its strongest level since early September 2021. The local currency exchanges at N411.59 to the dollar at the official market. The naira stability was triggered by drop in dollar demand by importers and other forex users who are […]
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Some shareholders of an insurance firm, Industrial and General Insurance Plc have dragged a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed, before the Federal High Court in Lagos. The firm’s shareholders accused Ahmed and seven others of not abiding by the law to hold the company’s statutory Annual General Meeting for over […]
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THE ignoble attempt by the authorities to cover up the October 20, 2020 slaughtering of unarmed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll plaza in Lagos was recently exposed in the report of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses submitted to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, but which has […]
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EFCC chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa Some of the ships seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have begun to sink in waters across the country, while many of those temporarily and permanently forfeited by suspected corrupt persons are being damaged due to lack of maintenance. Sources in the know of the development at the House […]
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Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has urged monarchs, elders and stakeholders in Yorubaland to meet with President Mohammadu Buhari to negotiate for the release of the Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, Igboho is being detained in neghbouring Benin Republic, where he has spent over four months. He is being […]
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At least, 366 soldiers, policemen and members of the civilian joint task force were killed in ambushes laid by terrorists in the North-East and the North-West between 2019 and 2021. A breakdown of the figures released by SBM Intelligence states that 337 soldiers, 29 cops and civilian JTF members were killed, while 111 others were […]
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The current squabbles between the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami on the one hand; and State Governors and local government councils on the other, over plan to deduct $419 million from the accounts of the states, is a reflection of corruption, lack of responsible leadership and possible underhand dealings in the affairs of […]
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