The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, said on Friday that since President Bola Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, the military had achieved significant milestones in degrading terrorist networks, disrupting criminal syndicates, and restoring civil authority across many volatile regions. Consequently, DHQ said, within this period over 5,000 insurgents and bandits have been neutralized across multiple theatres…
The Indigenous People of Biafera, IPOB, yesterday described the second declaration of Biafra in Finland as the gathering of content creators, saying that IPOB has nothing to do with Biafra Republic Government in Exile, BRGIE. IPOB also said that the event in Finland was a joke and a shameless attempt to discredit the genuine agitation…
Since the Inauguration of President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023, Nigeria has seen a dramatic rise in violence, with 13,346 people killed and 9,207 abducted across the country. This surge in violence, spanning 667 local government areas, is attributed to terrorism, banditry, farmer-herder conflicts, and other forms of social upheaval. A recent Nigeria Security…
Chief Jite Odeworitse Tesigimoje, billionaire CEO of GIM Brown Marine from oil-rich Ugborodo community of Delta State, is not just a businessman with vast interests across the West African sub-region; he is also one of Nigeria’s most unapologetic ambassadors of polygamy. He stirred more controversy recently when he took his 19th wife in a lavish…
Twenty lawmakers from Lagos West have declared their support for Mojisola Lasbat Meranda as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. The development comes on the heels of an emergency meeting convened by the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) of the Lagos All Progressives Congress (APC) to address the ongoing leadership crisis. The crisis…
The adage, ‘One day for the thief, every day for the owner,’ recently came to bear on a 28-year-old man, Oluwanisola Quadri, when he was apprehended by personnel of Oluyole Security Surveillance Team in Ibadan, Oyo state, after he had duped many Point of Sale (PoS) operators and traders while pretending to have transferred money…
Angry protesters trooped to the residence of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, his hometown in Katsina State, on Thursday. The protesters, in their numbers, joined the #EndBadGovernance nationwide demonstration. The protest turned violent in some states, leading to deaths and forcing at least three governors to declare curfew. The mob which attempted to break into…
A revered Nigerian statesman, broadcaster, and corporate governance champion, Dr Christopher Kolade, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 93. In a statement announcing his death, the Kolade family expressed gratitude for his long and impactful life. “We are thankful for his incredible life of faith and service, and are grateful for God’s abundant…
Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 14-year-old girl for allegedly faking her own abduction and orchestrating the kidnapping of her four-year-old sister, in a desperate plot to extort a N50 million ransom from their father. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Abubakar Sadiq, announced the arrest while briefing pressmen at the Katsina Command Headquarters yesterday. He…
Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have converged at the National Secretariat of the party for its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in the nation’s capital, Abuja. All roads leading to the venue of the meeting on Blantyre Street were cordoned off by a combined team of armed security men including soldiers from…