A 16-year-old boy, Abubakar Aliyu, was buried alive by his two siblings over a heated disagreement which arose when a phone went missing, in Gauraki community, Kufaina ward, Zaria Local Government Area, Kaduna State. The victim however, survived the ordeal and the suspects, identified as Yahaya Abdulkadir (22) and Abdul Abdulkadir (18), cousins of the […]
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has withdrawn and invalidated the certificates of national service awarded to 101 graduates from the University of Calabar (UNICAL) oats a result of irregularities in their mobilization and exemption. In a statement by the management of the corps on Monday, the graduates include 99 who were illegally mobilised for national […]
The Nigerian Senate has denied allegations of determining its own salaries and allowances or receives special fiscal packages from the Presidency. The upper legislative chamber faced fresh controversies after a visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. This was contained in a statement issued by the Senate Spokesman, Yemi Adaramodu, in Abuja on Sunday, saying that […]
Former Delta State commissioner for Technical Education, Joan Onyemaechi has been released by her abductors. The former member of the House of Representatives, regained her freedom Friday night. Onyemaechi was forcefully kidnapped by some gunmen on July 30th 2024 from her church premises along the DBS Road, Asaba. A policeman and her driver were reported […]
There seems to be a cold war between two of President Bola Tinubu’s media aides over a video that surfaced on his verified X account on Wednesday, around 3:29 pm. A tweet was posted from Tinubu’s page, in which he urged Nigerians that, “as we navigate through these temporary pains, please remember that every effort […]
Among pervasive allegations of sabotage in the petroleum industry, the Senate has resorted to making inquiries over $1.5 billion approved for the turn-around maintenance of the Port Harcourt Refinery in 2021 with little or no result. Consequently, the upper chamber maintained that it was cruel, unfair and wrong to treat government owned businesses or public […]
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Akwa Ibom State chapter, has, ahead of the October 5th local government polls in the state, elected its 31 chairmanship and 368 councillorship candidates. In a statement released by the media unit of the Awka Ibom State PDP on Sunday, they stated that the exercise, which was held on Saturday, […]
In the wake of the nationwide protest going on in Nigeria some police officers while trying to disband a group of protesters in Katsina State shot and killed a fellow police officer. Our sources gathered that the incident happened earlier today Friday 2nd of August, 2024, being the second day of the ongoing protests against […]
The traditional ruler of the Yoruba African village in Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA, Oba Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II has been stabbed to death. The news of his demise was announced via a post on the Facebook page of Canadian-based Prince Segun Alanna, publisher of the Drum online newspaper. The sad event which happened on Monday, […]
The indigenous youths of Lagos State, under the Lagos Indigenous Youth Network, has expressed their concerns for the forthcoming hunger protest slated to hold from August 1st, to August 10th 2024, the stated their opposition to the protest reasons being the avoidance of a repeat of the #EndSARS destruction witnessed four years ago in the […]
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