The Edo State Market Women Association today vowed that they will continue to resist and reject any plan to impose a new leader (Iyeki) on the association in the state. This is coming against the background of a recent rumour that Folashade Tinubu is planning to impose another head of market women association in Edo. […]
•Micheal Lenin Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested one of the leaders of the ongoing Endbadgovernance protests in the Federal Capital Territory, Micheal Lenin. Lenin was picked up by the DSS around 2 am today at his residence in the Apo area of the FCT, reports The PUNCH. Speaking with our correspondent, […]
•Hunger protest A human rights activist and the Chairman of the Civil Liberties Organisation, Anambra State, Vincent Ezekwueme, has embarked on a seven-day hunger strike as his means of protest. Ezekwueme said the hunger strike was his way of expressing dissatisfaction with the current socio-economic situation in the country, reports The PUNCH...
•Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment of Khiam in south Lebanon Hamas said today its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an Israeli strike in Iran, where he had been attending the inauguration of the country’s new president. Haniyeh’s killing came after Israel yesterday struck a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, killing ...
•Sunak The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, is set to resign after crushing election defeat. Sunak said, “I have heard your anger,” he says in his final statement outside Downing Street, adding that he will step down once a new party leader is found,” reports BBC. Keir Starmer will become the new […]
•Armed men There was tension in Obodougwa-Ogume, Ndokwa West Local Government Area, Delta State as a community leader, Mr Anselm Oyibo, was today found dead. It was gathered that Oyibo, a former Community Development Committee Chairman of the community, was macheted to death and set ablaze today along with his motorcycle by unknown assailants,...
•Bello Bodejo A leader of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore group, Bello Bodejo has been arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja for allegedly establishing and supporting unlawfully an ethnic militia group – Kungiya Zaman Lafiya. Bodejo was arraigned today on a three-count charge filed by the office of the Attorney General of the […]...
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has convicted and sentenced five people to death by hanging or by lethal injection until they are confirmed dead. The verdict came following the prosecution and sentencing of the five convicts over the murder of the Omudioga Security Planning and Advisory Committee, OSPAC, Commander of Omudio...
•Russia election Vladimir Putin is set to secure another six-year term as Russian leader this weekend in a vote the Kremlin says will show society is fully behind his assault on Ukraine. In power as president or prime minister since the final day of 1999, Putin has quashed all forms of opposition and dissent, exerting […]
•Anambra protesters Some members of the Umuoji community in the Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, mainly youths, have protested the killing of the President-General of the community, Chief Sylvester Onyima. The National Youth Leader of Umuoji, Chudi Chikelu, who led the protest to the Government House in Awka today, express...