The B Division of the Nigeria Police Divisional Station and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa, Anambra, were on Sunday night, May 23, attacked by a group of yet-to-be-identified gunmen. According to reports, the armed men who rode in three Hilux trucks first stormed the B Police Division where they shot sporadically into…
Southern Governors have gotten the support of national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu and other chieftains of South-West chapter of the party like Olusegun Osoba and Bisi Akande, who met in Lagos on Sunday May 23. It was gathered that the six governors in the region were present at the meeting. The political leaders who discussed…
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has distanced himself from the agitation for a separate Yoruba nation, saying he does not believe in the secession agenda. Akeredolu said he was only in support of the position of the Southern Governors’ Forum on the ban on open grazing in the southern part of the country and…
Homegrown Manchester United star, Marcus Rashford has refused to rule out making a move away from the club, noting that he admires Real Madrid and Barcelona. Rashford, 23, is a product of the famed academy system at Old Trafford and has taken in 270 appearances for his home-town club since bursting onto the scene as…
A three-year-old boy has died after he fell into a well in Gaida, Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano state on Wednesday, May 19. Confirming the incident to newsmen, the Public Relations Officer of the Kano Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, said the service received a distress call and acted promptly. However, on getting to the scene of…
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has accused the Nigeria Governors’ Forum of not giving him the support he needed during his face-off with leaders of the Nigerian Labour Congress over a warning strike which was carried out in Kaduna state he governs. El-Rufai who spoke during a virtual meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Wednesday…
A new study has found that there is no such thing as a “safe” level of drinking. In the observational study carried out by researchers from the University of Oxford, scientists studied the relationship between the self-reported alcohol intake of some 25,000 people in the UK, and their brain scans. They found that drinking had an effect…
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has again ruled out giving back the £4.2 million recovered from Governor of Delta state James Ibori, to the state government. The AGF who confirmed that the Nigerian government has received the money recovered by the UK government in an interview on Channels…
US sprinter and activist, Lee Evans, who wore a black beret in a sign of protest at the 1968 Olympics, has died at the age of 74. The San Jose Mercury News reported that Evans’ family had started a fundraiser in hopes of bringing him back to the US from Nigeria, where he coached…
Seven inmates have been killed and 13 security guards taken hostage in a gruesome prison riot at the Xela prison in Cantel, Guatemala. It’s reported at least seven people have died, with four beheaded on Wednesday night, May 19. Also, it is said that among the security guards taken hostage, some are women. The…
