A Lagos-based master’s degree student, Feyi Orisan, was kidnapped alongside a woman in Ekiti by gunmen who shot her father, Sesan Orisan, dead in her presence. She recounts how the kidnappers threatened to kill them and sell their body parts if their ransom was delayed How did the attack leading to the killing of your […]
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A chieftain of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenire, Senator Femi Okurounmu, discusses the state of the nation in this interview. Why are Yoruba leaders, especially the traditional rulers, silent on the rising killings by herdsmen? Not all Yoruba leaders are silent. Certainly, the Afenifere leaders are not silent and that includes Chief (Ayo) Adebanjo; he […]
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Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom on Saturday again criticised the Presidency on the security challenge in the country after accusing the federal authorities of pampering gunmen terrorising Nigerians. Speaking on BBC Pidgin, he also accused the Presidency of blackmailing him each time he tries to draw attention to its shortcomings. Swiftly, the Presidency, through the […]
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Babatunde Ogala, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, is the principal partner at Babatunde Ogala and Co. In this interview, he speaks about his resolve to defend popular actor, Baba Ijesha in court over a sex scandal, his life and career in politics and law, […]
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Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Saturday, said having worked for the success of Interior minister, Rauf Aregbesola’s eight-year reign as his predecessor, he is sure that Aregbosola would support his reelection bid. He said that members of ‘The Osun Progressives,’ a factional group within the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, are not […]
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Acting on the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for the reclamation of grazing routes in states across the country, senior officials in the Presidency and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have given a hint as to how they will go about the assignment. Buhari’s directive on the reclamation of grazing routes has […]
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Ex-National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has expressed the confidence that the Lord Almighty will not forsake Nigeria as the country moves towards the 2023 general elections. Despite the numerous challenges that the nation is contending with, he said he is full of hope that democracy which Nigerians fought […]
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Party vows to avert breakup as another court suspends embattled chair NEC decides zoning Sept, govs, Atiku, NASS caucus seek end to rift Prince Uche Secodus has said he is still the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. He also said that the mandate given to him at the party’s National Convention in Abuja […]
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Moves by the embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, to reverse some of the agreements reached at the August 10 expanded National Executive Committee meeting of the party, may have provoked the fresh pressure on him to quit immediately, sources said on Saturday. Another court injunction, the second in […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said the entire country will miss the legendary musician, Sir Victor Uwaifo, who died in Benin City on Saturday at 80. A statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, said: “President Muhammadu Buhari condoles with family, friends and associates of legendary musician and multi-talented artiste, Sir Victor Uwaifo, who passed on Saturday, […]
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