Well, this is a story with relevant facts well presented and documented. It’s a good thing this has come to light. No one is sure however, if this is the first case in the state or even the Southwest. These are only symptoms manifesting the deeper malaise of a failed state. A total and arrant lack of leadership. The ...

  By Olubodun Are Armed Fulani men on Wednesday stormed a prayer mountain in Wasimi, near Abeokuta. The armed men who stormed the prayer mountain raided the worshipers collecting cash, phones and other valuables from the worshipers according to a report by Irohinoodua. Some of the Pastors and worshipers were attacked with machetes while two middle-aged women and wife of ...

  Military and civil authorities under the Buhari administration have been rendering false accounts of what transpired on October 20. Chief of Army Staff Tukur Burutai has repeated his false claim that nobody was killed during the #EndSARS protest at Lekki Toll Gate on October 20. “I must say that the spiritual warfare seminar we had last time, helped us ...

  *NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA Information minister, Lai Mohammed, says the calls for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over rising insecurity in the nation is “cheap and irresponsible,” insisting security has improved since he came to power in 2015. Mr. Mohammed made the statement during a meeting with members of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) on Thursday ...

  Many Nigerians discuss country’s issues with a non-positive disposition (glass half-empty) as if country is veering towards, ‘doomsday’. It reminds me of a book titled “Fact Fullness“ by Prof Hans Roslin, that describes “Ten reasons we are wrong about the world – and why things are better than you think”. This is partly because what tends to sell or ...

By Sam Kargbo There is the belief harboured in some quarters that the presidency has been hived off from the APC and corralled at Aso Rock by a group of backroom staff, relations and friends of Mr President. This cabal is said to have created an alternative world with its set of alternative realities for Mr President in such a ...

  IGP ORDERS INVESTIGATIONS INTO ALLEGED SUIT TOUCHING ON STATES’ JUDICIAL PANEL OF INQUIRY, The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has directed immediate investigations into a suit purportedly challenging the legality of the States’ Judicial Panel of Inquiry, investigating allegations by citizens against officers of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The IGP, who gave the ...

  By: Otono Muhammad The Nigeria flag ought to Fly Half Mast over the Bornu massacre of 43 innocent farmers whose crime was their going to farm to harvest and feed the nation. They are no liabilities but assets to the nation as FARMERS who cultivate, plant, weed, harvest and distribute their produce for the food sufficiency and survival of ...

  The first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 would be administered in the UK on Tuesday, Chris Hopson, head of NHS Provider, a membership organization for the National Health Service trusts in England announced on Friday. “There are 50 hospital hubs and we know the vaccine will reach those to enable people start vaccinating on Tuesday,” the NHS ...

  BY NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA • DECEMBER 4, 2020 Amazonian separatists group fighting for the independence of English speaking Cameroon on Friday began imposing a four-day lock-down in the two troubled regions of Northwest and Southwest, to disrupt pioneer regional elections scheduled for Sunday according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria. The lockdown will run from ...