By Nwafor Sunday The President and Senior Pastor, Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has described reports that the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, ordered a probe into the allegations of an affair with Pastor Faith Edeko as “bad press that sells fast”. Pastor Mike Davids, a former associate of Pastor Suleman, had made […]

By Onozure Dania, Lagos A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday struck out a $2million money laundering charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, a lawyer to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. The court also discharged his brother Erhunse Giwa-Osagie of the same charge. The duo were re-arraigned […]

By Soni Daniel, Abuja Despite rising security challenges facing the nation, Nigeria is still safer under President Muhammadu Buhari than what he met on assumption of office in 2015, Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, boasted on Monday at a news conference in Abuja. Mohammed, who was flanked by his Interior ministry counterpart, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, […]

By Ola Ajayi PROMINENT Yoruba leaders have warned the six governors in the South West zone not to negotiate the continued stay of Fulani herders in their states, urging them to toe the path of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) by issuing eviction notice to the violent herders. The leaders under the aegis of Yoruba World […]

By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has condoled Malam Musa Adamu, the husband of one Aisha, a seven-month pregnant woman who was killed by bandits on the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Road in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state on Sunday. The Governor, who prayed for the repose of her soul, wished a […]

… Supplies FG with oxygen to stem high mortality  By Gabriel Olawale  Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19, CACOVID on Tuesday  restated its commitment towards ensuring that no life lost as a result of severe oxygen supply problem even as it supplies Federal Government with oxygen for management of critical COVID-19 patients at the Isolation centres […]

I have watched with concern the recent development in Oyo and Ondo States in which quit notices were given to Fulani herders and there were subsequent burning of the property of the Fulani herdsmen in some parts of Oyo State. These happenings have increased the tension and unduly raised the temperature in the country. The […]

By Nwafor Sunday The presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, in last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has faulted many Nigerians who said the country has failed, noting that it is at the risk of becoming a failed state, if nothing is done to remedy the situation. The former Vice President said this in […]

By Demola Akinyemi  Kwara State Government on Monday began a week long medical screening exercise for 4500 food vendors ahead of official take off of its Home Grown School Feeding Programme. “We are screening 4500 food vendors across the 16 local government areas for students of primary 1-6. The federal government will take care of […]

A court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on Monday discharged four out of six protesters arrested in November for demonstrating outside the National Assembly. Last year, the nation was swept by weeks of widespread #EndSARS protests sparked by anger over brutality from the police’s loathed Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The government disbanded the […]