•Hassan Kolawole The Police in Oyo State, yesterday, paraded a 45-year-old suspected ritualist identified as Hassan Kolawole with a fresh human head in Ibadan, the state capital. Kolawole was paraded by the state Commissioner of Police, Adebola Hamzat, at the command headquarters, Eleyele alongside nine others who were arrested for various cri...
•Chekwas Okorie Founding National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has said it is suicidal and dangerous for governorship candidates in the off-season elections of Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states to trust the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He advised all the contestants to ensure tha...
•Bandits The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Supervising Presiding Officer (SPO) assigned to registration area 06 in Ossioma, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has been abducted. The INEC official, whose identity was not known as at the time of filling this report was abducted at Amassoma Community in Southern Ij...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so comfortable in his presidential self-indulgence that he now wants to wring water from stones and deposit it into an ocean. Our stone-broke universities are the stones. The presidency is the ocean to which Tinubu wants […]
Today will be a historic day in the three states of Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa, as a total number of 5.41 million eligible voters head to the polling units to cast their ballots to elect new governors for the three states. In the past few weeks, palpable tension has spread throughout the three states and […]
•INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa State has said that it decided to use only permanent staff of the Commission as Supervisory Presiding Officers in today’s governorship elections in the state to protect the sanctity of the process. It was however learnt that about 26,000 security pers...
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has paid N1.39 billion to 36,163 depositors of 110 closed microfinance banks and three primary mortgage banks. According to the CEO of NDIC, Bello Hassan, this followed the recent revocation of some MFBs and PMBs licences by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), revealing that the payments of the [...
The National Industrial Court (NIC) has restrained the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) as well as their affiliates from embarking on any form of strike or industrial action. The two major labour unions were yesterday evening ordered to stop their nationwide strike action scheduled to commence on Tuesday, Novem...
The body of another woman has been found in her apartment in the Ogbumbada compound in Rumalogu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. A source said the woman, identified as Blessing Williams, was found dead in her apartment yesterday, reports The PUNCH. The source, who pleaded anonymity, said the single mother has been […...
•Terrorists Kaduna villagers are now being forced by bandits terrorising their communities to pay levies before being allowed to harvest crops from their farms in the state. The affected farmers are from Kidandan and Galadima villages, while those from Angular Fala’u and Kerawa villages are constantly harassed and kidnapped while working on th...

