By Chidi Nkwopara Events of the recent weeks have shown the strength of the appetite for justice among Nigerians, with the loudest demands coming from the nation’s youngsters, who will decide its future as a nation. The rippling effect of their action is still cascading, even as you are reading this piece. While this can lead […]

Gunmen stormed a village in Zamfara killing 20 people in the latest attack by criminal gangs in the violence-wracked region, police said Wednesday. A gang of motorcycle-riding gunmen called ‘bandits’ by locals shot residents in Tungar Kwana in Zamfara state, police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said. Violence in Zamfara that began more than a decade ago […]

By Ikechukwu Odu The former national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, Thursday, called on the President Muhammadu Buhari, to address the protesting Nigerian youths and save the country from the impending anarchy. Nwodo, who was also a former governor of Enugu State said, addressing the youths on the extent the […]

Mali’s ex-president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita returned to the Sahel state Wednesday, an official said, after leaving to seek medical treatment following his ouster in an August coup. The 75-year-old former leader landed in the capital Bamako in the evening, an airport official said, his first time back in Mali since he departed for the United […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been on its latest strike since March 23, 2020. Prolonged strikes have been part of the unenviable traditions of the Union. They date back to the 1970s, and this has contributed in no little way in devaluing tertiary education in Nigeria, part of the very objectives that […]

In recognition of her work across Nigeria, especially in the northern part of the country, where she works to empower and mentor young people, Farida Princess Ahmed, the Chief Executive Officer of Premium Shelter Limited, has bagged five awards.

By Ekanpou Enewaridideke The story of that poor helpless village boy in Delta state who suffered afflictions of coronavirus, for whom mama Moses Oromola Jemigbeyi (Eluko) the 137-year old woman of Okerenkoko town in Gbaramatu Kingdom prayed tenaciously for recovery alongside the committed coronavirus-survival moves of Tompolo,  and in whose behalf Okowa intervened and cured  […]

…Want Buhari to address the nation, military authorities sanction soldiers who shot at protesters  By Luminous Jannamike The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, and the President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle, on Wednesday, said the problems of human rights abuse and extra-judicial killing of innocent civilians will persist in […]

In the first few days of these protests, I was particularly struck by tweets warning protesters not to allow politicians and celebrities and prominent people space to be visible and relevant (in the language of the uprising, it is put as “don’t give the mike”).

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, MFM, has expressed sadness over the shooting of protesting youths by Nigerian security operatives. The security operatives were reported on Tuesday to have used live bullets on the youths that were carrying out peaceful protest across the country against Police brutality. The church, in a statement by its PR […]