The leaders of the governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State today, Friday, July 19, engaged in verbal war over yesterday’s attack on the reinstated Edo deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, and the APC’s governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo, for the September 21 election. The i...
•Benue State Police PRO, SP Catherine Sewuese Anene The Police Command in Benue today said suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked Egwuma community in Agatu Local Government Area and killed five persons. The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Sewuese Anene, confirmed the development today, reports NAN. Anene said the Command had deployed add...
•Biden United States President Joe Biden led the condemnation after his election rival Donald Trump was wounded in a shooting incident at a rally in Pennsylvania yesterday that also reportedly killed at least one bystander. Political leaders on both sides of the aisle slammed the violence minutes after the Republican candidate was rushed off s...
•Trump rushed from rally stage as gunshots ring out Former US President Donald Trump was rushed off stage smeared in blood after a series of gunshots were fired at a campaign rally yesterday in Pennsylvania. As bangs ran out, Trump grimaced and clutched a hand to his right ear, where blood was clearly visible across […]
•Kingsley Okundaye Labour Party’s (LP) National Transition Committee of Mobilisation and Recruitment Chairman, Dr. Kingsley Okundaye, has condemned the alleged attack on Barr. Olumide Akpata’s Campaign Team in Owan West Local Government Area in Edo State, It would be recalled that the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Barr. Akp...
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, today, raised fresh alarm over the alleged plans by terrorists to attack critical infrastructure in the country. Director Defence Media Operations, DMO, Major General Edward Buba who disclosed this to Defence Correspondents in Abuja at a bi-weekly briefing on the ongoing military operations in the various theater...
•Armed Fulani herdsman Herdsmen have injured persons including, operatives of the Ondo State Security Network in Akure North Local Government Area. The attack took place today while Amotekun personnel were trying to enforce the anti-open grazing law in at Igoba, along Ado Road, reports The Nation. They were moving away cows grazing on a farm [...
•Terrorists An attack blamed on jihadists in central Mali killed more than 20 civilians on Monday, two local officials said, in the latest killings in the troubled Sahel region. Mali has for over a decade been ravaged by jihadists and other armed groups, with the centre of the West African country becoming a hotbed of […]
•Armed Fulani herdsman The Amnesty International has disclosed that between January 2023 and February 2024, Benue State recorded at least 135 attacks and over 2600 deaths including women and children. The Program Manager of Amnesty International, Mrs Barbara Magaji, stated this during a photo exhibition and press conference on the conflicts in...
The ruling political party in Lagos State, All Progressive Congress (APC) is currently engulfed in crisis due wrangling among stakeholders within the party over leadership in Local Government Areas (LGAs). The crisis which has been brewing in different LGA of the state, yesterday snowball to attack on the party’s chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi , ...

