A simply identified as Iya Oluso, has been killed during a clash that occurred between two rival cult groups in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. It was reported that the two rival cult groups Monday morning clashed at Ilupeju area of Ibadan. Our correspondent gathered that the two groups caused panic in areas such as Idi-Arere, Kudeti, Ilupeju and its …
Kaduna has approved Monday, January 25, 2021, as the resumption date for all tertiary institutions in the State. It also said assessment on COVID-19 for all secondary and primary schools are ongoing while resumption will be announced once the exercise is approved. Read also: 340 female students of Providence High School, Enugu, locked up by AMCON A statement on Sunday evening …
Fire Chief, Engr. Martin Agbili has recorded 8 fire outbreak in less than 24 hours in various parts of Anambra state. Agbili, who confirmed the incidents in a statement, attributed majority of the inferno to the carelessness of the victims, including indiscriminate bush burning. He enumerated the affected areas to include Awka, Nnewi, Onitsha, Awka, Ogidi, Nise and Enugwu-Agidi. Martin …
Sunday Igboho has stated that he was fired with bullets by Fulani Herdsmen but didn’t penetrate. This Oodua Republic agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, explained how bullets were fired at him at the home of the Seriki of Fulani in Ibarapa, Oyo State, and did not hot him. Igboho added that suspected Fulani herdsmen killing and …
Worries are being expressed over the safety of about 340 female students of Providence High School, Enugu, who, on Thursday evening, were locked up in their school premises by officials of the Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) in the company of over 30 riot police officers during the enforcement of a court order empowering it (AMCON) to take possession …
The All Progressives Congress membership registration/ validation exercise expected to commence tomorrow ( Monday) may be shelved again. Nigerian Tribune investigation revealed that some of the items to be used in conducting the exercise are still stockpiled at the party national secretariat in Abuja and are yet to be moved to the state chapters. If aborted tomorrow (Monday), it would …
Innocent Nwachukwu, a foremost Entrepreneur and acute chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has canvassed support for Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led administration developmental agenda in Abia State. The PDP chieftain called on the people of the State to continue to sustain their support to the government’s quest to transform Abia in terms of infrastructures. Nwachukwu who made the call during …
A veteran Nollywood actress, Idowu Phillips is popularly known as Mama Rainbow has penned a glowing tribute to her late husband, Ayanfemi Phillips, who died 37 years ago. She took to her Instagram page to celebrate her late husband with a series of tributes. Mama Rainbow narrated how her late husband passed away not long after they marked their 10th …
Ogun chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Governor Seyi Makinde to first redeem the crisis-ridden Oyo PDP before dabbling into unnecessarily into offshore political counselling. Ogun PDP accused Makinde of seeking to import unnecessary crisis into its rank. Governor Makinde on Wednesday visited the Sagamu country home of former Governor Gbenga Daniel with some delegates in a …
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has charged Civil servants in the state not to see retirement from civil service as a route to death or terminal point but a new beginning of life to greatness. Masari, who gave the counsel while swearing-in six Permanent Secretaries into the state’s civil service at Government House Katsina, also noted that the …
It was a fateful evening of April 24, 2018. Mr. and Mrs. Sirajo Ladan were at home somewhere in the sprawling city of Sokoto, and the holy month of Ramadan, a period when adult Muslims are expected to fast for a month, had just kicked off. The husband, Malam Sirajo, had just returned home. His struggles to get paid some debts …
The University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, is today, Friday, hosting some world-class scholars and educators including a former advisor to two former British Prime Ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, on Policy and Strategy, Ms Cat Tully. Read also: UNILAG: No worker will be punished, Ogundipe says as he resumes office The specialists and faculty directors are to debate the …
By David Onmeje Leadership is an art meant for those that understand the intricacies involved in bringing about positive change in every society. I say this for the fact that in Nigeria, one of the banes of our numerous challenges remains the lack of sound and credible leadership by those saddled with the responsibility of translating our hopes and aspirations …
The Minister of State Power, Goddy Jedy Agba, has said the power sector requires $4 billion annually to universally access clean and renewable energy for a sustained power supply to consumers in the country. Speaking at a virtual global power sector players’ conference presided over by the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guternes, the minister outlined the achievements and challenges …
Nigeria has fairly horrible and horrible leaders. One in all them is Gov. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, the Governor of Rivers state. Wike’s soul is gravely tormented and he unswervingly finds himself in a state of perpetual restlessness. Gov. Wike is anguished or tortured by the spirits and blood of the harmless. The blood of these he spilt in his fiendish …
The Jigawa state governor, Alhaji Mohammad Badaru Abubakar has sacked his Special Assistant on the environment, Mr. Hamza Aliyu Kantoga. This was contained in a press statement issued signed and made available to our reporter in Dutse the state capital. The statement said the dismissal was signed by the Secretary to the Government of Jigawa State, Alhaji Adamu Abdulkadir Fanini. …
The Defence Headquarters, on Friday, said terror group, Boko Haram, has been ‘weakened’ in Borno State and other parts of Nigeria. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, John Enenche, said terrorists no longer have stronghold or ‘constituted authority’ over the North-East like it was the situation before May 2015 when the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) came into office. He …
A High Court in Rivers State has moved to sequester the assets of the country’s premier lender First Bank of Nigeria Limited in an effort to recover the damages oil major Royal Dutch Shell owed the Ejama Ebubu community of Rivers State in a legal contest spanning many decades, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Police operatives and court officials arrived the bank’s …
POLITICS is one area of social life in which shared accountability is critically required but is embarrassingly missing. The social contract theory justifies the state based on this idea of shared accountability between the state and the individual. The individual foregoes absolute freedom and the state assures him or her of security and welfare. Do your part and I do …
There is palpable tension in Kano as the local government election in the state, scheduled for Saturday, looms. The Chairman, State Independent Electoral Commission KANSAIC, Professor Ibrahim Garba Sheka, had worried that elections in the state was like a war, with chaos and uncertainty trailing it. It is on record that hundreds of Kano citizens lost their lives, following violent …
