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The Indigenous People off Biafra, IPOB, has urged the Nigerian military hierarchy to understand that constant harassment and killing of innocent civilians in the South-East will not make up for their failure to deal with insurgency and terrorism ravaging the North where most of them … Read...

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, says the Republic of Biafra will come in ‘his time’. NAN reports that Kanu made this comment during an “emergency broadcast” on Radio Biafra on Thursday, October 3, 2019.... Read more via The Trent | Internet Newspaper –...

Tunde Bakare, the senior pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo must not be “disgraced out of office”. Speaking with journalists in Lagos on Sunday, September 29, 2019, Bakare said he finds it difficult to believe the vice-president violated his oath … Read...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, dares Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to make good his threats to set aside his constitutional immunity by immediately resigning his office to face the corruption allegations, in which he was named, in court. The statement was made available to The … Read...

Femi Falana, the lawyer representing the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has reacted to a claim by the State Security Service , SSS, that it was not served with copies of the order directing the release of the publisher. In a telephone interview … Read more via The...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday, September 25, 2019, said the federal government has pumped about N1.5 trillion in intervention fund into Nigeria’s power sector in the last two years. Osinbanjo said this at a power sector roundtable hosted by Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited...

The Coalition for Revolution, CORE, organisers of the RevolutionNow have organised a programme which seeks to address the ills of the government, with Femi Falana and Wole Soyinka set to participate. The programme which has the theme, “Democracy, State Repression and The State of Insecurity …...

President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday, August 16, 2019, in Katsina State, charged the military to be more spontaneous in restoring peace to the country, particularly states troubled by bandits, ordering them “not to spare bandits’’ that have been killing, maiming and extorting innocent citizens...

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, says the man who prevented an Azman Air flight from taking off on Friday hails from Niger Republic. Henrietta Yakubu, FAAN general manager, public affairs, confirmed his identity to TheCable on Saturday, July 20, 2019. The suspect was … Read...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, dismissed the two suits filed by Ned Nwoko, husband to popular Nigerian actress Regina Daniels, challenging the election of Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate representing Delta North district in the October 2, 2018...

Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, on Thursday, July 18, 2019, warned that the South West region would defend itself from marauding herdsmen, saying the drums of war are sounding in Nigeria. Ooni of Ife Imperial majesty Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Buhari and Osinbajo at the … Read more via The...

To: The Office Of The Vice President, Pastor Yemi Osibajo. National Livestock Transformation Plans, is a lofty idea, given the content of the project, but the programme would have been better driven, focusing on the humans components from which the crisis emanated. National Farmers and …...

From Geoffrey Chaucer to Robert Southey and to James Russel Lowell we learn, like all men who unleash chicken to pasture and forage, that chickens are like curses; they always come home to roost. Because the rains are heavy down South, herdsmen from Katsina State … Read more via The Trent |...

I stand against corruption in government, which was why my office personally facilitated the take-off of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after it was created by then President Olusegun Obasanjo. However, there is a huge difference between prosecution and persecution. I am...

One of the organizers of the protests against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo over his alleged sexual misconduct and rape allegation says 13 persons abused by the pastor are ready to testify against him in court. One of the protesters who introduced herself simply as Funke said on Sunday, … via The...

Sodiq Alalobo, an Islamic scholars from Ekiti, Isin, Irepodun and Oke-Ero Federal Constituency, Kwara, on Saturday, June 22, 2019, offered prayers for a successful tenure in office for the 9th Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. The prayer, which was organised by the …...

Nigerian government has issued a warning to Ghana and Togo to stop attacking Nigerians in the countries. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the chairperson of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, made this known while addressing journalists after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the...

A Magistrates’ Court in Minna on Friday, June 21, 2019, ordered that a 20-year old student, Babangida Husseini, who allegedly impregnated a 16-year old, be remanded in prison. The police charged Husseini with two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child and impregnating a … Read...

A man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala was on Thursday, June 20, 2019, named by the Times Newspaper as a pilot by name David Henderson. Sala, 28, died when a plane carrying him and pilot David Ibbotson … read more via The Trent |...

The Institute for Agricultural Research, IAR, Zaria has developed a new cowpea variety that would inject N48 billion into country’s economy annually. Ishaq Mohammed-Faguci, a Lead Scientist, IAR ‘Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea Research Team’, stated this on Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Zaria...