Outrage has followed the alleged assault and arrest of four staff members of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, including the Deputy Chairman, Medical Advisory, Effiong Ekpe, a professor of cardiothoracic surgery, during an investigation involving the verification of a medical report submitted by a fraud suspect. The inc...
The family of a Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination candidate abducted during Wednesday’s attack on a Benue Links bus along the Makurdi-Otukpo road has condemned the examination body for denying that any of the victims were its candidates. Speaking to our correspondent, a relative of one of the victims who requested ano...
•Sheikh Alkali Abubakar Salihu Zaria The suspension of a cleric, Sheikh Alkali Abubakar Salihu Zaria by the leadership of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Jos faction, is generating reactions. Sheikh Alkali, who deployed to lead the Ramadan exegesis at Mokas Mosque in Damaturu, Yobe State, was suspended after he delivered ...
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners Contributory Pension Scheme Sector, NUPCPS, has condemned the removal of retired workers from accessing the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, describing the decision as unfair and inhumane. The National Secretary of NUPCPS, Mr. John Bisan, voiced the union’s displeasure during a two-day Sensitisation and E...
•The federal government’s tractors Sixty nine days after the federal government launched 2,000 tractors and other implements for mechanised farming, they are yet to be distributed to farmers. This has sparked outrage among farmers’ groups who expressed concerns that this year’s wet season is slipping away, reports Daily Trust. This is ju...
Vivian Joseph, also known as Mrs Nkubi, has exposed a man on social media over his unsolicited advice about their daughter, Soromtochukwu. In a viral social media post via her social media pages, Mrs. Nkubi, who is the wife of popular skit maker Victor Nwaogu, better known as Nkubi, shared a picture of the man, […]
•Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State The directive of Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger State for the shutdown of Badeggi FM Radio in Minna, the state capital, is generating a storm. Bago had directed the State Commissioner of Police and Commissioner for Homeland Security, Brigadier General Bello Abdullahi Mohammed (RTD) to shut down the [&...
•Elephants A 49-year-old farmer has died after he was reportedly attacked by a herd of elephants in Itasin, a community in Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State. The development has triggered outrage in the community where human-animal conflicts have been recorded many times, reports Daily Trust. It was gathered that the incident whic...
•Medical doctors Medical doctors under the Lagos State Government have expressed outrage over what they described as a “clandestine, hostile, and illegal” deduction from their July salaries, accusing the state government of breaching trust and acting without due process. Operating under the umbrella of the Medical Guild, which represents docto...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen The gruesome killing of a local farmer, Rabiat Atere, by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Oka Akoko, in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State, has sparked outrage. Atere was reportedly attacked on her farm in Oka on Monday evening, reports The Nation. The deceased, who hailed from Uba in Oka-Akoko, […]...

