Month: August 2019

Gunmen have killed a police inspector attached to the Isua-Akoko police division in Ondo State. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, when the inspector and one other sergeant were on patrol along the highway linking Ondo with Edo and Kogi states. He was however shot and killed while the other officer narrowly…

Omoyele Sowore, a Nigerian activist and publisher who was arrested on Saturday, has spoken from detention. Mr Sowore maintained a spirit of defiance when associates visited him in the custody of the State Security Service on Monday evening, two days after his arrest, according to Sahara Reporters, his media platform. “I am pleased that the…

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang at the weekend called on states in the southern part of the country to support the implementation of the proposed RUGA cattle settlement programme by making land available. According to him, N2.258 billion was provided for its implementation in the…

Sporting activities at the Kwara Stadium Complex Ilorin, were in the early hours of Monday put to a halt with the presence of heavily-armed men of the Nigeria Police. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that athletes, who had arrived at the stadium for training, were turned back by the Police. Many of the…

We will study the ruling for ground of appeal, says prosecuting Counsel The Kaduna State High Court has granted the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife Zeenat, leave to seek medical attention abroad. In his ruling on Monday, Justice Darius Khobo ordered that the IMN leader be…

PDP in Okitipupa/Irele Federal Constituency rejects judgment As electorates kick, say judgment attempted to overturn the wishes of the people for APC More reactions continue to trail last Wednesday’s judgement of the Ondo State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Akure, the state capital. Starnews had reported that the three-man Election Petition Tribunal had nullified the…

The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has restrained the Governor of Edo state, Mr Godwin Obaseki from issuing a fresh proclamation letter, as directed by the Senate. The court also stopped the clerk of the National Assembly, the President of the Senate as well as the speaker of the…

Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue on Saturday in New York said no fewer than 81 herdsmen had been convicted and 3,000 cows arrested under the state’s anti-open grazing law. Ortom, who gave the update in a keynote address at the 2019 annual convention of the Idoma Association USA, said implementation of the law had brought…

A leader of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has been shot dead, a report by Primium Times reveals. Saidu Kolaku was the zonal vice chairman of MACBAN, Adamawa South, until he was shot dead on Saturday. His death has been described by an official of MACBAN and other informed persons in…

The Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in February 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said it is regrettable that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is groping in darkness since year 2015 he assumed office as the President of the Nation, Starnews reports. In a statement by his media adviser, Mr Paul Ibe,…

It was a moment of outstanding praise on Saturday at the Ministers’ Conference of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, where an escaped pastor of the church, Chidinma Ibeleji, abducted by Fulani herdsmen, gave a testimony. The church’s General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, introduced Ibeleji to the congregation during the event held at Redeemed Camp,…