Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, on Wednesday, suspended the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and Public Order, Fidelis Mynin. The commissioner was suspended for joining the suit challenging the legality of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission without informing his principal. The Apex Court had on Tuesday reserved judgment on the suit filed…
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has alleged that recent terror attacks across the country are being aided by “insiders,” claiming that elements within Nigeria’s security architecture are sabotaging national efforts in collaboration with external forces. The allegation was contained in a statement released on Saturday signed by the Lagos APC spokesman,…
Following the conviction of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, the Federal Government, on Thursday, applied for him to be sentenced to death. FG’s lead counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, made the application shortly after the court found Kanu guilty on all the seven-count terrorism charge that was preferred…
A Nigerian doctoral student has been charged and remanded in custody in Lisbon in connection with the killing and decapitation of a 34-year-old Guinean man, whose body was discovered in the early hours of July 31 behind the Lisbon Coliseum in the city’s Baixa district. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Jonathan Uno, was arrested after…
Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, has reacted to comments made by United States President Donald Trump over alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Trump had asked the US Department of Defence to prepare for “possible action” in Nigeria while warning the Nigerian government to act swiftly to end the “killing of Christians” in the…
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, made a startling revelation of an extraordinary experience with a ‘demon-possessed’ woman who persistently claimed that God had told her he was her husband. Speaking on Wednesday during the grand finale of the 2025 Special Victory Hour programme of the church, the…
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters is set to have a new building complex in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja with state-of-the-art facilities for military operations. Performing the groundbreaking ceremony at Kubwa Expressway, off the Defence Officers Mess, President Bola Tinubu affirmed his administration’s commitment to building and strengthening the country’s defence capabilities. The new Defence Complex…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of five new Permanent Secretaries to fill existing vacancies in the Federal Civil Service. The announcement was made on Monday in Abuja by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, in a statement signed by the Director of Information and Public…
A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has revealed the role he and Senator Murray Bruce played in the selection of a former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, as Atiku Abubakar’s running mate. Four years before Obi defected to the Labour Party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023, he was selected…
Governor Dapo Abiodun-led Ogun State Government has sealed the Sagamu residence and luxury hotel of former governor and serving senator Gbenga Daniel, escalating the political feud between both politicians. Officials from the Sagamu Zonal Planning Office stormed Mr Daniel’s properties on Monday, removing the contravention and notices to quit earlier pasted on Friday and replacing…