Yoruba nation activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has praised President Bola Tinubu, South West governors, and traditional rulers in Yorubaland following his recent return to Nigeria after nearly five years in exile. Igboho had been in exile after the administration of late President Muhammadu Buhari declared him wanted over allegations of…
At least, four persons have been beheaded in Oso Edda, Edda Local Government Area of Ebonyi State in the renewed crisis between the people of community and their Amasiri neighbours, Afikpo Local Government Area of the state. The two communities have been at war since decades over land with many lives lost and property worth…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has applied for a National Industrial Court order to commit the striking workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to prison over their alleged disobedience of the court order. Wike’s alleged disobedience by the workers arose from resumption of their strike despite an order of…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has announced that the state is no longer affected by power outages arising from repeated collapses of Nigeria’s national grid, following new investments in renewable energy generated from organic waste. The governor made the disclosure on Thursday while speaking to journalists at the Government House in Umuahia. Otti explained that…
Legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti is set to receive a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards, nearly three decades after his death, marking a historic first for an African musician, according to the BBC. Widely regarded as the architect of Afrobeat, Fela’s recognition comes amid growing global acknowledgement of African music, following…
A58-year-old man, Michael Oritudafila, on Friday, appeared before the Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, over alleged false information. Mr Oritudafila, whose address was not provided, is being tried on a charge of giving false information, to which he pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Insp Samuel Owolabi, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on…
A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan has nullified the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State, on November 15, 2025. Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was elected as the PDP National Chairman following a tense and highly controversial national convention held in Ibadan. The convention, which…
Burkina Faso’s junta announced Thursday that it plans to dissolve all political parties, whose activities have been suspended since the military rulers seized power in 2022. Captain Ibrahim Traore took over in a September 2022 coup after toppling another junta, and has sharply muzzled dissenting voices since then. Parties were previously banned from holding public…
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) of Sector 1 have neutralised 18 Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in the Bula Dalo-Sabon Gari axis of Borno state. The insurgents were killed during a Thursday dawn operation along the 100km Damboa-Biu road in the state. OPHK Media Information Officer, Lt-Col. Sani Uba,…
The Israeli military said on Friday it launched overnight strikes at “eight terrorists” in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, killing three of them, with a fragile ceasefire still in place in the Palestinian territory. The US-brokered ceasefire, which sought to halt the fighting between Israel and Hamas sparked by the group’s October, 2023 attack…
