Information reaching inside sources now say there was pandemonium earlier today in Offa, Kwara state after gunmen stormed the area for a bank robbery operation. According to reports, at least four people were killed iin the course of the operation…
Day: April 5, 2018
2019 ELECTION: NIGERIA AT A CROSSROAD – RUDOLF OGOO OKONKWO
For over a decade, the drumbeat of Africa rising has been punctuated by the piano chords of Africa sliding back into its usual habits of poor governance, shrinking political space, and corruption. No country manifests these mood swings like the…
HERDSMEN/FARMERS CLASHES: OYO GOVT SETS UP TASK FORCE
A task force has been set up by the Oyo state government to look into the increasing cases of kidnapping and clashes between herdsmen and farmers at Oke-Ogun area and other parts of the state. The development was made public…
SACKED KOGI CP REINSTATED
Ali Janga has been reinstated as the Commissioner of Police in Kogi State, the state police command spokesman, William Aya, has confirmed. Mr. Aya told newsmen in Lokoja on Thursday that Mr Janga returned to office on April 3 on…
2019:APC WORRIED OVER UNPOPULARITY OF ITS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the confusion and backstabbing in the All Progressives Congress (APC) was an indication that the party is on death throes. The party noted that it was now clear to all Nigerians that the…
SECURITY EQUIPMENT: FAYOSE RAISES ALARM
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has raised the alarm over the approval by President Muhammadu Buhari of $1 billion for the procurement of security equipment to fight Boko Haram insurgency, saying it was rather for the conduct of the…
TENURE EXTENSION: APC GOVERNORS DENY DISAGREEMENT WITH BUHARI
Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday dismissed media reports that there was disagreement between them and President Muhammadu Buhari over tenure elongation for the APC national and state executives. Gov. Abdul-aziz Yari of Zamfara stated this when…
EDO PDP ALLEGES THUGS INVADED BENIN OWENA FARMLAND
Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the farm land belonging to the Benin Owena River Basin Authority, a Federal Government establishment situated at Obayantor, Sapele Road axis of Benin City was in the early hours…