A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Nomansland, Kano, has arraigned a young man, Nura Usman, and his mother, Izzatu Aminu, over an alleged plot to kill the man’s father, Alhaji Usman Shanono. The defendants were arraigned on charges of conspiracy and attempted murder in connection with the alleged plot, which prosecutors said was hatched at Dantsi...
The Plateau State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of some suspects in connection with an alleged attempt to kidnap the wives of two Anglican Bishops of Jos. Commissioner of Police, CP Ayodeji Faniyan, disclosed this today during his maiden press briefing at the Police Officers’ Mess in Jos, saying the command had commenced investigatio...
•Rauf Aregbesola The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has raised the alarm over alleged plans to arrest its National Secretary, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, ahead of Saturday’s Osun State election. In a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said it had received “credible reports” of plans to...
•Dr. Gbenga Hashim The Co-Chairman of the Movement for Democratic Renewal (MDR) and Presidential Candidate of the Accord Party, Dr. Gbenga Hashim, has described the Federal High Court order directing the deregistration of five political parties, including the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Accord Party, as evidence of what he called a s...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State Ondo State governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has revealed how security operatives foiled an alleged plot by a group of youths to bomb the Ondo State Government House after uncovering the plan through intelligence gathering. Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the governor de...
•Tinubu and soldiers The federal government is set to try seven of the detained suspects linked to an alleged plot to overthrow the President Bola Tinubu-led administration for concealment of treason, terrorism and money laundering. The suspects are former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timpre Sylva; Major General Mohammed Ibrahim Gana (rtd); a re...
A storm is gathering at the intersection of law, procedure, and politics, as the African Democratic Congress (ADC) accuses the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of erecting quiet but potent barriers capable of shutting the party out of the forthcoming 2027 elections. What appears, on the surface, to be a routine administrative d...
•US President Donald Trump A Pakistani man accused of plotting to kill US politicians including President Donald Trump said yesterday he was pressured by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to devise the murder-for-hire scheme, according to US media. Asif Raza Merchant, 47, was charged in September 2024 with seeking to hire a hitman to as...
•The protesters Indigenes and residents of Ijebu poured into Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona Archway leading to palace and marched towards Ijebu Ode Local Government Headquarters Itoro today in protest over alleged plot by unnamed powerful interests to foist the next Awujale on the kingmakers, the Fusengbuwa Ruling House and the Ijebu nation. The Og...
•Orji Kalu and Godswill Akpabio Former Abia State governor and current senator representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, has revealed how recent attempts to impeach Senate President Godswill Akpabio, were thwarted through the collective intervention of some lawmakers. Speaking with newsmen today at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, Senato...

