A 16-year-old student, Miss Praise Malachi, has drowned in Zaria, Kaduna State, while hurrying to check her Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) result. Praise, a final-year student of Government Day Secondary School, Samaru, was reportedly excited after hearing from her friends that she had passed with excellent grades. Her father, Emmanuel Malachi, narrated the heartbreaking…
Tension gripped residents of Warri, Delta State on Saturday afternoon as Itsekiri and Agbarha-Warri (Urhobo) youths engaged in a violent clash over renewed territorial claims. Eye witness accounts revealed that trouble started around noon in Warri South Local Government Area, following a disputed celebratory procession by some Itsekiri youths who were reportedly commemorating the fourth…
Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has alleged that a trusted associate betrayed him during the July 2021 invasion of his Ibadan residence by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). Igboho spoke during a visit to the Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Gbadegesin Ogunoye III, in Ondo State, at…
At least 35 terrorists were killed when Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets bombarded them at their convergence point near the Nigeria–Cameroon border, where they reportedly planned to attack ground troops stationed at Kumshe, in Borno State. The precision air strikes were carried in the early hours of Saturday, August 23, NAF spokesman, Air Commodore…
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, on Saturday granted forgiveness to Yoruba self-determination activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, during a widely attended reconciliation visit at the Ile Oodua Palace, Ile-Ife. The historic gathering, which drew prominent Yoruba monarchs, traditional chiefs, and a massive crowd of supporters, marked a turning…
The immediate past Deputy Governor of Abia State, Ude Chukwu, officially joined the Labour Party on Saturday at his country home in Nkoro, Ohafia Local Government Area. Chukwu, who recently resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he served under former Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, described his defection as a new political chapter for…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has declared that his political ambition is not driven by desperation for power but by a vision for a better Nigeria. Atiku, who contested the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before recently defecting to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), made this known at…
Nenadi Usman, acting chairperson of a faction of the Labour Party (LP), says the party will approach the 2027 elections with a different strategy. Speaking in an interview with DW Africa while reflecting on the party’s performance in the 2023 general election, Usman said the Labour Party now has a structure in place that will…
A 39-year-old pregnant woman, identified as Mrs. Esther Enemo, has been murdered in a gruesome manner and her body dismembered in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The killing reportedly happened at Temidire community, Egbejila Road, Ilorin, last Thursday, was allegedly carried out by the younger brother of the victim’s husband, one Mr. Sylvester Enemo (aged…
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF) has said that it was committed to the November 15, 2025, national convention of the party as resolved by the National Executive Committee (NEC) at its 101st meeting earlier in July, urging party members to resist all attempts to derail the planned convention by people it called ‘anti-party…