•Site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut today A day after Israeli warplanes flattened their building, Lebanese residents helped rescuers scour the rubble for survivors, still reeling from the rare strike in the country’s far north. The bombing killed at least eight people in Ain Yaacoub, one of the northernmost villages Israel has struck, far ...
•Late leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Yahya Sinwar Hamas vowed today it would not release the hostages it seized during its October 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar. The killing of Sinwar, the mastermind of the deadliest attack in Israeli history, […]
•IGP Egbetokun A suspected land speculator in Lagos State, aka ‘Ibile’, in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, has allegedly declared war on the police. The middle-aged man was seen on tick-tock lamenting his tribulations in the hands of the police alleging that some officers wanted to extort N150 million from him for the Inspector General of Police, over [&h...
•Retired Warrant Officer Monday Ranse A veteran of the war, who was with the 63 NA, and served with the 3 Marine Commando, retired Warrant Officer Monday Ranse, a Biafran veteran, has narrated his experience about Biafran war, saying war is not something anyone should pray for, reports Daily Trust. Excerpts: What do you make […]
•Dangote Refinery When Dangote Refinery, early this year, rolled out its diesel and supplied marketers at a substantially reduced price of N1,200, Nigerians chanted, “Bravo to Dangote”. This was because the N1,200 price represented about 30% reduction from the previous market price of N1,600. The refinery thereafter announced a fur...
•Wizkid and Davido The celebrity feud between music icons Davido and Wizkid has degenerated into an unhealthy squabble such that fans are demanding it ends now. In as much as they agree that there could be disagreements between celebrities, they believe the duo’s fight is not good for the music industry, reports Saturday Vanguard. After [&hell...
•IPOB The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has advised the leadership of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu to shirk its purported visit to Sokoto State to apologise to the Northerners on the alleged involvement of Igbo military officers that led to the 1966 coup . Spokesman of the group, Emma Powerful who […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Labour Party (LP), today locked horns over the forthcoming national convention of the party being planned by the Julius Abure-led National Working Committee and scheduled to hold by or before end of March. While the NLC said it was not informed about the plan to hold the national […]
•House of Reps The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill to include Anambra State in the newly constituted Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. The bill titled “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Niger Delta Development Commission Act, Cap N86, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to Provide […]
•Soludo In what looked like declaration of war against the media by the Anambra State Government, officials of the state government have destroyed newspapers and beat up vendors in Awka. The attackers who were officials of the Awka Capital Territory Development Authority (ACTDA) disclosed that the state government does not want any Newspaper t...

