President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate withdrawal of all Nigerian police force officers protecting the VIPs in Nigeria, GISTSMATE MEDIA reports. This was disclosed in a press release by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy. Onanuga revealed that the officers were withdrawn for core police duties. STATEHOUSE PRESS…
The Yoruba Nation Youths, both within Nigeria and in the diaspora, have strongly opposed plans to introduce Sharia law or establish Sharia courts in the South-West region of Nigeria. This stance was expressed in a joint statement by the Yoruba National Youth Leader (Diaspora), Prophet Ayodele Ologunloluwa, and the Homebase Leader, Comrade Oyegunle Oluwamayowa Omotoyole….
The House of Representatives has waded into the increase in the pump price of petroleum products. Moved by the Deputy Minority Leader, Aliyu Madaki and sponsored by 111 members of the house, the house called for the immediate reversal of the price increase in petrol and cooking gas. The lawmakers said they feared that the…
Nigeria’s leading DNA centre, Smart DNA, has released its 2025 Annual DNA Testing Report, highlighting a surge in immigration-related DNA cases amid the country’s ongoing “Japa” wave, while paternity disputes remain a persistent concern. According to the report, released on Sunday in Lagos, immigration-related DNA testing rose sharply to 13.1 per cent of all cases…
President Bola Tinubu on Sunday departed Lagos for Europe as part of his end-of-year break, ahead of his official visit to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The President is scheduled to participate in the 2026 edition of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week Summit, following an invitation from the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh…
More than 700 demonstrators have reportedly died during three days of protests in Tanzania following the country’s presidential election, which saw the increasingly authoritarian incumbent, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, run unopposed after her main challengers were jailed or barred from standing Reacting to the crisis, Tanzania’s main opposition party, Chadema, said the death toll had…
The Nigeria Police Force Headquarters has defended the use of tear gas by its operatives to disperse protesters in Abuja who were calling for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The incident occurred across several parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), including the Three…
A prominent Plateau clergyman, Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo, has publicly claimed that aides and loyalists of President Bola Tinubu, working from the Presidential Villa, are issuing threats and warnings to silence his advocacy regarding the alleged “Christian genocide” in the state and the Middle Belt. Rev. Dachomo, who serves as the Regional Chairman of the Church…
Clashes erupted in Istanbul Monday with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas to break up an angry mob after allegations that a satirical magazine had published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, an AFP correspondent said. The incident occurred after Istanbul’s chief prosecutor ordered the arrest of the editors at LeMan magazine on grounds…
Personnel of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Badagry-Seme border area have arrested one Obi Levi Obieze, alias Levi Obu Onyeka, wanted by the Nigeria Police for alleged involvement in abduction, kidnapping and ritual killing. The service public relations officer, ACI Akinsola Akinlabi, disclosed this in a statement issued Thursday in Abuja. He…
