Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has attributed under development in Nigeria to party loyalty by elected politicians and political appointees.

OSOGBO—IN a silent supremacy war between Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State and his predecessor, Rauf Aregbesola, the Chairman of Osogbo South Local Council Development Area, Akeem Olaoye and the parliamentarians in the council have become the first casualties.

AVM Musa Mukhtar takes over as Air Officer Commanding (AOC) Air Training Command, Kaduna, on Friday in Kaduna. Mukhtar take over from the outgoing, AOC, AVM Muhammad Suleiman, who has been posted to Defence Headquarters, as Chief of Policy and Planning. The new AOC was the Chief of Aircraft Engineering at Headquarters, Nigerian Air Force, […]

There have been devastating aftermath of bushfires across New South Wales after they tore through the state’s south coast, leaving homes and wildlife scorched. Residents of Rosedale, 18km south of Bateman’s Bay, were forced to flee on New Year’s Eve, hours before a massive fire engulfed the town. Areas of the small coastal town that […]

An Istanbul court on Friday sentenced 70 former Turkish Air Force cadets to life for their role in a 2016 coup attempt. “However, 55 of the cadets were tried in absentia as they are believed to have fled abroad,’’ state news agency Anadolu reported. According to Anadolu, the trial involves a total of 72 suspects, […]

Joseph Erunke – Abuja THE Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said on Friday its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole has destroyed Boko Haram sect’s logistics facility at Gujeri, in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno State. The destruction of the terrorists’ structures, according to NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore […]

The Federal Government on Friday began demolition of illegal fences under some bridges in Lagos. The demolition exercise began with a fence of about 250 metres built under the descent of the Apongbon Bridge on the CMS-bound carriageway on Lagos Island. The fence which was still under construction had been raised by seven to eight […]

French police have shot dead a man who stabbed a number of people in a park near Paris, local media report. The attacker died shortly after he was shot in the town of Villejuif, which is 7km (4 miles) south of the French capital, news channel BFMTV reports. READ ALSO: France: Protests see roads blocked, and […]

By Soni Daniel The Department of State Services has finally arrested the mastermind of the hoax marriage between President Muhammadu Buhari and his Minister of Humanitarian Services, Sadiya Umar Farouq. The arrest of Kabiru Mohammed, a native of Kano State by operatives of the secret service, comes three months after the purveyor of the fake […]

South African photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed, who was kidnapped in Syria in 2017, is back home, his family says. He was working for the charity Gift of the Givers, documenting the effects of the civil war when he was taken. He was captured near the Turkish border by suspected members of the Islamic State group. But […]