The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of the Saturday governorship election in Edo State. The APC candidate, Monday Okpebholo, was declared winner by the Returning Officer, the Vice-chancellor of the Federal University Of Technology, Minna, Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta. Okpebholo polled 291,667 votes to defeat his arch rival, Asue Ighodalo of the…
President Bola Tinubu has issued a fresh directive to security agencies to go after cyber criminals and other organized crime groups in the country. This was made known by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy in a statement on Sunday. According to the statement, President Tinubu said security and…
The President, International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR), Chief Dr. Fayemi Fakayode has declared that for any Yoruba traditional ruler to assert territorial and social control within his domain, Oro deity is a weapon that must be used. Fakayode, said any Oba that fails to give the Oro adherents their due respect will lose control…
If 23-year-old Ayomide Adeleye, a 300-level philosophy student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, had known the far-reaching implications of killing a fellow human being, he would have opted to remain poor. The lanky black complexioned young man who resides with his parents in Ikorodu in Lagos is now cooling his head inside the cell of…
At least 17 members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) drowned while attempting to cross a river along the Nigeria-Niger Republic border. According to a counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, the incident occurred between the Kafetoa and Bulabulin Gaidam communities in Yobe State, Nigeria. The insurgents were reportedly en route to Tam village…
Some Israeli military personnel on Sunday morning stormed Qatari Al Jazeera TV office in the West Bank’s Ramallah city with a military order to close it for 45 days. This was seen in a Qatar-based channel aired live footage showing the Israeli troops storming the channel’s office and handing over a military closure order to…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has released protesters who were arrested for their various roles in the #EndBadGovernance protests recently. A source within the Service authoritatively confirmed to The Nation on Sunday, September 22, that the director general of the State Security Service, on 19th September 2024, directed their immediate release. According to the…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA says its operatives have intercepted a total of Twenty-Five Million (25,000,000.00) pills of tapentadol and Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand (350,000) bottles of codeine-based syrup at the Tincan port complex in Lagos. Tapentadol is an opioid three times stronger than tramadol. NDLEA Spokesman, Femi Babafemi made this known…
Asue Ighodalo, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo State governorship election, has described the election as potentially the worst in Nigeria’s history, citing numerous alleged irregularities. Speaking during a live press conference on Sunday, organised by the Edo PDP National Campaign Council and led by Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it reserves the power to review results declared under duress. The commission said this in a statement on Sunday morning. Following the upload of results on its portal, different political parties have been laying claim to victory. But in the statement, Mohammed Haruna, National Commissioner & Member,…