Since the Chibok Girls kidnap in Borno State in 2014 by the dreaded Boko Haram insurgent group, it seems kidnapping of young people in schools has become the latest money-spinner among rogue groups. But how do parents deal with the emotion of raising and paying huge ransom money and yet not get their children back? […]
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Embattled DCP ordered to respond to allegations There are strong indications that the Police authorities may not hand over the Commander, IGP Intelligence Response and Monitoring Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, to the United States for criminal prosecution. It was gathered that the battle to extradite Kyari to the US for trial […]
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By Banji Ayoola The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that Wednesday’s Supreme Court verdict on the dispute over the last governorship election in Ondo State signaled what it described as the imminent collapse of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. It said the judgement has put the ruling party in disarray, noting: “This judgement […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered additional 497 COVID-19 cases, adding to a recent surge in infections that is driven by the spread of the Delta variant in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official website handle on Sunday morning. The new infections indicated a decrease from the 590 […]
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Barely 19 months to Nigeria’s high-stakes 2023 presidential elections, intense lobbying and permutations have heightened among political actors on who or which geo-political zone should produce the next president. In “A Message to Nigerians,’’ released in Abuja on Sunday, elder statesman, Dr Nnamdi Onochie, wrote that the political class should “toe the path of reason […]
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The Nigerian police boss has recommended that Abba Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police indicted by American authorities for allegedly being in bed with a notorious fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, also known as Hushpuppi, should be suspended. Police Inspector-general, Usman Alkali Baba, made the recommendation to the Police Service Commission in a July 31 letter. […]
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Chinese cities rolled out mass testing of millions of people and imposed fresh travel restrictions as health authorities battled Sunday to contain the country’s most widespread coronavirus outbreak in months. China on Sunday reported 75 new coronavirus cases with 53 local transmissions, with a cluster linked to an eastern airport now reported to have spread […]
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By Robin Wright On June 16, 1976, thousands of Black South African children poured out of their classrooms to peacefully protest the government’s decision to forcibly teach them in Afrikaans, the language of Dutch settlers. As a young foreign correspondent, I covered the chaos as police fired noxious plumes of tear gas and then live […]
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Since the validation of the election of Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, by the Supreme Court, issues arising from the judgment have put the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the edge. In this piece, Yusuf Alli examines the implications of what analysts are describing as a ‘legal time bomb’ for the ruling party in the […]
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By Idowu Akinlotan Ondo State governor Rotimi Akeredolu is a very fortunate man. Referencing the split decision of four to three that gave him victory at the Supreme Court last week, he went back to judicial history to insinuate that he didn’t just win by the skin of his teeth, but that counting from the […]
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