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The chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Babatunde Babade, and two others have been arrested for trafficking illicit drugs. The Director, Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday said that the two others arrested alongside the 45-year old NURTW chairman are Ilesanmi Shola, 35, and Babajide...

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned the attack on Ijaw national leader, Edwin Clark, Ijaw leader, by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Clark had said IPOB must be dreaming if the group believes the South South region will join the agitation for the Republic of Biafra. In a swift reaction, the secessionist group said the Ijaw leader does not speak...

Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa was just a mother and farmer who spiced her vocation with being an intellectual, politician, and human rights activist. Living in a confederate Gold Coast, now Ghana, riven by a civil war of 1883 to 1888, the moment the British exiled Asantewaa’s brother and the King of Asante Prempeh 1 to Seychelles in 1896, a fertile...

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said the challenges facing the country is neither ethnicity nor religion. The minister said some elements in the country were exacerbating ethnic and religious differences to tear the country apart for their selfish reasons. Mohammed spoke in Abuja on Saturday at the book presentation and 75th birthday celebration of Bamigboye Ogunbiyi, a re-known obstetrician...

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has alleged that the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State loyal to Governor Kayode Fayemi has hijacked the forms for elective positions ahead of next Saturday’s ward congress. Ojudu, who spoke with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital on Saturday, said the development...

Ibrahim Salami, one of the five lawyers representing Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, on Saturday, said he and other lawyers will never let the Yoruba nation agitator get extradited to Nigeria. Igboho was arrested on Monday in Benin Republic while trying to board a flight to Germany. He was immediately charged to court and is being held at Brigade économique...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that people are ”working behind the scenes” concerning the arrest and trial of Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. The governor stated this while addressing the journalists at Polling Unit 019, Ward 08, Ikoyi II, where he cast his vote in the ongoing Local Government/Council Areas election on Saturday. Speaking on...

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has described the attack on national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) as ridiculous. IPOB had in a statement by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful,on Friday, decribed Clark as "betrayer" for saying South South will not join Biafra. The statement also called the elder statesman "Fulani slave." But a statement signed...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, insited that all network providers in Nigeria have assured the commission of 100 per cent coverage for electronic transmission of results. Recall that he National Assembly recently blocked the electronic transmission of election results while considering the electoral act amendment bill. The bill was  passed at the senate, but with a clause allowing the...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, has disclosed that six Nigerians are at the top of its list of most wanted people. The Nigerians on the wanted list, according to the agency, include Michael Olorunyomi, Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Alex Afolabi Ogunsakin, Felix Osilama Okpoh, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode and Nnamdi Orson Benson....

The detained Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has filed a N500 billion suit against the Department of State Services (DSS) and Attorney General of the Federation(AGF) Abubakar Malami (SAN), over the invasion of his Ibadan residence, on July 1. This was contained in an application for an order enforcing his fundamental human right filed on his behalf...

Following the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, especially with the recently discovered Delta variant and the placement of of Oyo State on red alert by the Federal Government, the authorities of the University of Ibadan (UI) have put in place additional precautionary measures to prevent infection among its students, staff and members of the public. A statement signed by the Registrar...

A former bank cashier, Ebenezer Adeolu Alonge, alongside his wife, Isakunle Olamide Oyinlola and mother-in-law, Isakunle Eunice Moradeke, were on Friday, July 23, convicted and sentenced to 60 years imprisonment by Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye of Ekiti State  High Court, Ado Ekiti. The trio were arraigned on a 12-count-charge of conspiracy and stealing, contrary to section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Laws...

A picture of the Senator representing Delta South Senatorial District, James Manager, kneeling before former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, has generated reactions on social media. In the picture, the federal lawmaker is seen wearing Ankara with a face mask below his chin and his hands folded. Ibori wears a light blue outfit and sits on a dark red couch. The...

The Acting Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan (UI),Professor Adebola Ekanola, has revealed that no fewer than 10 persons have died from COVID-19 complications within the university, noting that people are taking the pandemic for granted. Ekanola, who stated this during a virtual meeting of deans and heads of the departments of the institution organised by the University of Ibadan COVID-19 emergency response...