Day: September 5, 2021
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Pastor Dies While Trying To Emulate Jesus’ Three-day Resurrection
James Sakara, the pastor of a Zambian Christian church, was found dead after asking to be buried alive in the ground so he could come back to life in three days’ time, like Jesus… To say that 22-year-old James Sakara was overconfident in his ability to emulate the resurrection of Jesus Christ would be an…
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Gunmen Kill Uniosun Graduates On Their Way To Nysc Camp
Some yet-to-be-identified armed men have killed fresh graduates of the Osun State University who were travelling to their NYSC Camp. The barbaric incident which happened along Lokoja-Abuja Road claimed the life of two graduates of the Osun State-based institution. According to the Public Relations officer of the University who confirmed the Incident, Ademola Adesoji,…
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Female NYSC Corp Delivers Baby In Bayelsa Orientation Camp
A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Yanusa Ranatu from Kwara State who just concluded her registration at Kaiama orientation camp yesterday gave birth to a baby boy at the Bayelsa State Referral Hospital, Kaiama, in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area. The State Coordinator, Mrs Ojugo Iyowuna who led a delegation of key camp officials to…
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Growing lists of court orders seeking to restrain Mala Buni unsettle APC
The political atmosphere within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is rife with tension as fresh concerns mount over the growing lists of court orders, seeking to restrain Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State along with other members from acting or parading themselves as the party’s Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, members until…
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No indigenous Fulani in Ondo, other Yoruba states — Afenifere tackles MACBAN
Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has expressed displeasure at the deliberate misrepresentation of the indigenous demography of Yorubaland in Southwest Nigeria by the Secretary General of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Usman Baba-Ngelzerma. Mr. Baba-Ngelzerma was quoted to have, during a live TV interview, said “In Ondo and most of the Southern states, we…
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Guinea coup d’etat violates ECOWAS protocol on democracy -FG
The Federal Government has condemned the coup d’etat that happened today in the Republic of Guinea, saying it violates ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance. Army putschists in Guinea had on Sunday staged a coup and arrested President Conakry Alpha Conde. A video sighted by AFP showed some soldiers saying the army has decided…
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Affirm My Four-Year Tenure As PDP National Chiarman – Secondus tell Appeal Court
Says only NEC can suspend PDP national officer The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has asked the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal to affirm that his four-year tenure ends on December 9, 2021. He also asked the appellate court to quash the orders of the two…
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700 APC, ADC Members Defect to PDP in Kwara ahead of 2023 election
Ahead of 2023 polls, no fewer than 700 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kwara State have defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The defectors cut across all the wards in Irepodun Local Government Area of the state. Some of the defectors,…
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PDP factional group elects Ajijola as consensus governorship aspirant ahead of primaries in Ekiti
A factional group, Repositioning Movement, in the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti, has elected Mr Lateef Ajijola as its consensus candidate for the party’s primaries ahead of the 2022 governorship election. Ajijola, an Architect, emerged as the group’s consensus candidate at a shadow election organised for three aspirants. Mr Aderogba Agbaje, Chairman of the…
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Video: Cow Seen ‘Fighting’ With Vehicles On Lagos Road
There was a drama on Saturday as a cow was seen fighting with vehicles on a road in Lagos, Nigeria. In the video which went viral on Sunday afternoon, the angry cow was seen using his horns to hit on the truck. Starnews Nigeria gathered that the cow escaped from the back of a truck…
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He Finally Proposed To Me, But His Dad Turned Out To Be My Sugar Daddy – Nigerian Lady
A lady identified as Christy has sought the advice of people after she discovered that her suitor’s father was her sugar daddy. The lady who expressed happiness when her boyfriend proposed marriage to her was ushered into a phase of confusion when the man took her to his family house where she eventually met…
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Buhari’s Govt keeps mum as U.S offers to name Boko Haram sponsors
Nigerians have expressed doubts about the willingness of the Federal Government to embrace the offer by the U. S. government to help and identify the sponsors of Boko Haram, which has waged an insurgency war on Nigeria in the last 12 years. Some security experts, former diplomats, and leaders of some socio-cultural/civil society organisations in…