The Federal Government says for anyone to declare Nigeria a failed state on the basis of its security challenges, is “preposterous’’. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this in response to a recent declaration by the Council on Foreign
By Osagie Otabor, Akure Gunmen, who hijacked a school bus on Thursday morning in Oba Ile, Akure North local government of Ondo State, have released the abducted female staff. It was gathered the gunmen missed their target as no pupil was inside the
Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) in charge of Operation Restore Peace in Southsouth geo-political zone, Moses Jitoboh, has disclosed members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are gathering in Edo State. He revealed the IPOB members were secretly meeting at Igbanke, Ubiaja,
Former Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose has mocked President Muhammadu Buhari over his ‘treat them in the language they understand’ tweet, which has now been deleted by Twitter. Buhari in the now-deleted tweet said: “Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who
The Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has sacked two lecturers, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu and Dr. Samuel Omoniyi Oladipo for sexual harassment of students as exposed by a BBC documentary aired in 2019. In the documentary, Igbeneghu of the European Languages
By Yinka Adeniran, Ibadan Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde has said his administration will launch a task force to implement the ban on open grazing in the state in the next six to eight weeks. The Governor also declared open grazing illegal in the
Over 70 members of various cult groups in Ikere-Ekiti, the headquarters of Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State have renounced membership of their groups and surrender arms. The traditional ruler of the community, Oba Adejimi Adu who disclosed this on Wednesday in
Gunmen suspected to be assassins, on Tuesday, killed the Peoples Democratic Party youth leader in the Oru-East Local Government Area of Imo State, Kenneth Amukamara. The hoodlums also burnt Kenneth’s house and damaged the vehicles of his brother, who is said to be
The Plateau State Police Command said it has arrested some suspected killers of AIG Christopher Dega (retd.), a Senior Special Assistant to Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom on Security. The PUNCH gathered that the governor’s aide was killed in Jos, the Plateau State
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed the heightened insecurity in the country on the assumption of office in 2015 of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration. The main opposition party accused the administration of shielding “terrorism apologists” in its cabinet while making
It is no longer news that Senator Hope Uzodimma had before his second term election
The Government of Abia State has called for the investigation of the killing of Abia
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Abia State Government says there is no truth in a recently circulating video on social