Pastor Tunde Bakare, the General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, on Saturday said some youths in their 20s and 30s are responsible for Nigeria’s current woes. Bakare said these youths once trusted with power messed up the system in Nigeria. He said the older generation of leaders are not responsible for the…
Gunmen numbering over twenty invaded Kuchiko Relocation Development Area in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory and abducted a resident and his son. According to a report by Daily Trust, the gunmen, stormed El-Rufa’i Estate, in the early hours of Sunday and started shooting sporadically. Having overpowered security guards on night duty,…
A 41-year-old Nigerian man, identified as Chieuikem Daniel, has been arrested in South Delhi’s Khanpur area for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of supplying them Remdesivir injections meant to treat COVID-19 patients at a higher rate. According to a police source on Friday, Daniel was arrested from his rented house on a victim’s complaint…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says Governors in the country lack the powers to fix petroleum prices. He stated this on Friday evening while featuring on a PUNCH Live interview programme. Recall that a committee set up by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum led by Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, recommended a petrol price of between N408.5 per…
One of Nigeria’s leading private universities, Covenant University (CU), has graduated a record 201 students who were awarded First Class degrees among 1,664 graduates for the 2019/2020 academic session. The Vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Abiodun Adebayo, announced this at the 15th convocation ceremony of the institution tagged, “The Release of Eagles” on Friday. According…
In an interview of TheSun with National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, these salient points were made. •People hate us because of Buhari, but president has done nothing for us •Southern govs are confused jokers National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo has dismissed the ban on open grazing declared…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that the anti-graft agency recovered over N1 billion cash from a civil servant within a week. He disclosed this on Thursday while appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance investigating Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and payment of one percent stamp duty…
Agitators for the independence of the Yoruba nation stormed Akure, the Ondo State Capital, on Saturday. The protesters gathered at Isinkan Roundabout, Akure, calling for self-determination They brandished posters that read, “Support Orile Ede Yoruba”. One of the agitators, who identified himself as Tosin, said, “We know why we call for Oduduwa Nation. We know…
Four suspected cultists and traffic robbers have been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly dispossessing unsuspecting members of the public of their valuables in various parts of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Wednesday that the command was committed to tackling cultism and other forms…
Men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, have seized an articulated vehicle loaded with 600 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice and belonging to Dangote Cement Company. The NCS personnel also arrested three persons, including the truck driver, as they were conveying the consignment to the eastern part of the country. The Customs Area…