•General Tukur Buratai (rtd) Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai (rtd), has said the $1billion approved for defence procurement during his tenure as Army Chief was released to the Ministry of Defence. Buratai stated this at the Defence Correspondents’ Association of Nigeria (DECAN) Conference in Abuja today. According to the ...
•Terrorists and NYSC members A mother of one of the freed members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has revealed that she paid N6 million ransom to secure her son’s release. Recall the prospective corps members were abducted on October 1 after gunmen attacked two 18-seater buses travelling from Ibadan, Oyo State, along the […]...
•Bandits Bandits have killed four people and abducted four others in Gorau community, Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The attack occurred last night, barely six days after a boat mishap in the community claimed 65 lives, reports Daily Trust. The assailants also shot seven residents, who sustained injuries and are currently recei...
•Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi State The Kebbi State governor, Nasir Idris, said he has maintained prudent financial management and discipline that will enable the administration to pay workers’ salaries and pensions for five consecutive months without reliance on funds from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). He stated this in...
•Thailand flag A former Thai Member of Parliament today shot dead a local government official in broad daylight over a financial dispute before being arrested and confessing to journalists at the police station. The attack took place outside a government building in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, just days after a school shooting in th...
•Nigeria’s Super Falcons A suspect has reportedly been arrested and confessed to stealing cash belonging to several Super Falcons players at the Marriott Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, just days before Nigeria’s opening match at the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations. The suspect is expected to return all the stolen money while criminal p...
A Grade A Customary Court sitting in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has heard the testimony of a woman, Bintu, who is seeking the dissolution of her marriage to her husband, Adele, over allegations of infidelity, domestic violence, and threats to her life. Bintu told the court that she constantly lived in fear of her husband […]
•Biafra flag The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has criticised the founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, accusing him of betraying the Biafra struggle for personal gain while dismissing his recent allegation that detained IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is recruiting...
•Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State When operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, moved against the Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Mustapha Abdullahi, earlier this week, many initially assumed it was another major corruption investigation involving a senior government official and an enormous am...
•Ologbodiyan and Tinubu A member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Kola Ologbodiyan has declared that the 2027 general election will not be about money, but a battle between Nigerians versus President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Ologbodiyan, who is also a Former National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), said this on Ch...

