Government Officials Sabotaging Negotiations – ASUU President
President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke has stated that federal bureaucrats are “throwing wedges” into the union’s negotiations with the government. The union on Monday extended its ongoing strike by four ...
Disgraced Former Inspector-General Of Police, Tafa Balogun Is Dead
Nigeria’s former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, jailed for fraud, has died at the age of 74 after a brief illness. The former IGP would have been 75 years on August 25, 2022. Family sources confirmed his death to Daily Trust on Thursday...
FCT Original Inhabitants Decry Marginalization
The original inhabitants of the Federal Capital Territory have called on the Federal Government to treat them like every other Nigerian. They made the call in Abuja yesterday through their traditional rulers at a national dialogue on rights of FCT or...
UK Museum To Return 72 Looted Benin Bronzes
Museum and Gardens in South East London has agreed to return 72 Benin Bronzes looted from the former British colony now known as Nigeria. This comes amid pressure on European institutions to return artefacts stolen during the colonial era. Also, Ni...
NGF To Hold First National Summit August 31st
The Nigeria Golf Federation (NGF) has concluded plans to hold its first national summit from August 31 to September 2, 2022. According to the Otunba Olusegun Runsewe-led NGF, the summit will hold at Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, where membe...
Roads, Streets Named After Colonialists Must Be Renamed – Chief Obono-Obla
Former presidential aide, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has canvassed the re-christening of roads, streets and boulevards in State capitals and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, after Nigerians and Africans who have been outstanding. He said that no stre...
#EidelMaulud: Let’s Intercede For Restoration Of Peace, Prof. Ibe Urges
The Chancellor of Gregory University Uturu Prof Gregory Ibe has congratulated Muslims in the country at this year celebration of Eid-el Maulud. He urged Nigerians to use this opportunity to pray for the restoration of peace in all parts of the country. In a congratulatory message signed by Sleek Ogbonnaya Ogwo, Deputy Registrar, Media & Public Relations of the institute and...
#EndSARS: Hoodlums Have Hijacked Benin Protest – Edo Deputy Governor
Edo State Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu says the End SARS protests in Benin have been hijacked by hoodlums. “Hoodlums actually have taken over the exercise,” Mr. Shaibu said. The deputy governor’s comment comes on the heels of the attack on a maximum prison by hoodlums in Benin City, the state capital. Mr Shaibu who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today revealed...
Dissatisfied Victim Fumes As #EndSARS Panel Awards N7.5m Compensation
The Lagos State Judicial Panel probing police brutality yesterday awarded N7.5million to a trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, whose spine was broken after being thrown off a two-storey building at Alaba International Market in Ojo Local Government Area (LGA) by police officers in 2018. But an angry Ekekwe, 34, described the amount as too inadequate to compensate for his ordeal. In his petition,...
42 year old man, kills wife, baby and commits suicide in Lagos
By Admin LAGOS - A 42-year-old man, Enifeh Omomo, according to police has allegedly committed suicide, after killing his wife and their six-year-old son at their Ikorodu residence in Lagos. Lagos Police Spokesman DSP Bala Elkana, said in a statement that the Ikorodu Divisional Police Station had received a distress call on May 24, at 8 a.m about the incident. “On May...
