Russia blasted the Ukrainian capital with a deadly wave of “kamikaze” drones Monday, in a renewed attack that set apartments ablaze as soldiers fired into the air. The drones, carrying explosives and their distinctive buzz, terrorized Kyiv just a week after the Kremlin’s forces unleashed a deadly barrage across the country. Ukraine said the attacks…
The wife of a Lagos medical doctor accused of rape has told the court how he gave her sleeping pills in the night to be free to rape her niece. Aderemi Faleye, on Monday, spoke before the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, Lagos State. Her husband, Femi Olaleye, is facing a two-count charge…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has said that the conviction of his campaign Director General, Mr Doyin Okupe cannot break his resolve to be Nigeria’s president come 2023. Obi stated this on Monday during an interactive session with journalists in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital saying that he is undaunted by…
The Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State has said the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, still remains its candidate in the 2023 general elections. The party insisted that it would support all its candidates in the state and Atiku as its preferred presidential candidate. The party’s state Public Relations Officer, Akeem Olatunji, disclosed this…
State governors are pitching their tent with those opposed to the N100,000 cash limit recently imposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). They believe the policy will hurt the economy and rural dwellers in particular. They also fear that the CBN action may set the masses against the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, and could constitute…
DUE to backlash from Nigerians, the Department of English of Benue State University has cancelled one of its first semester final year examination paper for the 2020/2021 session over the ‘cheapness’ of the examination questions. The code of the course in question, whose examination was meant to last for three hours, is ENG 405 (English…
The National President of the Miyetti Allah Cattle BreedersAssociation of Nigeria (MACBAN), Baba Ngelzarma, hasaccused President Buhari of abandoning pastoralists in thecountry despite the support they gave to him during his2019 re-election. Ngelzarma who was the former secretary of the associationbefore his election as president, said this during a chat withnewsmen in Abuja on Saturday, December 18….
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says politicians buying Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to manipulate the 2023 general elections are engaging in futile efforts.According to INEC, the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS), the technology that will be used for the accreditation and authentication of voters come 2023, will reject biometric data of persons who are…
Operatives of the National Dr¥g Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered an underground drug bunk in the home of a suspected drug kingpin, Okrika Kingsley Ozioma, at Usiefurum town, Ughelli South LGA of the state. It was gathered that the drug bunk was uncovered in a three-bedroom bungalow building owned by the suspect who is now…
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has tackled the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over what he described as an unwarranted media trial of the Kogi State government as regards the fresh case against a nephew of the Governor Yahaya Bello and the previous N20 billion bail-out controversy. Agbakoba…