The Defense Headquarters has said that groups of terrorists in the Northwest suffered heavy casualties when they laid ambush for troops of Operation ”Hadarin Daji” in Zamfara. The Director of Defence, Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, who made this disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the troops had on May 12, encountered…
House of Representatives member for Kaduna North, Bello El-Rufai has disclosed that the state governor, Uba Sani taught him politics. El-Rufai described Sani as his mentor because he made him contest for the House of Representatives seat. The lawmaker disclosed this during an interview hosted by Yaya Abba, titled, ‘With Shuraim.’ Bello said two of…
The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has formally reached out to the Inspector General of Police, IGP and filed a request for a legal order to prevent Speaker Abdulmalik Sarkindaji of the Niger State Assembly from overseeing the marriage of 100 orphaned girls. The speaker had revealed his intention to provide marriage support for…
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has vowed to ensure that Russian troops have no single safe location on Ukrainian soil amid the ongoing war. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian soldiers are improving in the war against Russia as soldiers are destroying their enemy’s infantry and armoured vehicles. The president spoke in a statement he posted on his X…
The Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, Sam Amadi, on Tuesday, said it looks like a tragedy to be a citizen of Rivers State. Amadi said it would be resurrection if sanity returned to Rivers State. Posting on X, the public affairs analyst wrote: “It looks like a tragedy to be…
The Kogi State House of Assembly has urged Governor Usman Ododo to beef up security around all Tertiary Institutions in the state to avert the kidnap of students by gunmen. The lawmakers gave the charge during plenary on Tuesday, in Lokoja. A motion of urgent public importance by t The member representing Adavi State constituency…
A former presidential candidate, Professor Pat Utomi, has said the proposed mega party would be a movement of values and not a typical political party. Utomi made this statement while speaking in an interview with Arise Television on Tuesday, monitored by DopeTV. “My first point of call is to create this new tribe and the…
Tokunbo Wahab, the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources in Lagos State is widely believed by many as a breath of fresh air in the nation’s politics. The trained lawyer hit the ground running immediately after he was appointed as commissioner after his tenure as a Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on…
The Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe on Monday lamented the poor state of the environment in most of the markets in Ekiti State. The monarch equally condemned the poor maintenance culture on the part of some market users. Adejugbe particularly bemoaned the near total absence of amenities, especially toilets and water sources in the…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has discovered two illegal bunkering sites in Rivers State. A statement by the NSCDC spokesperson, Babawale Afolabi on Monday, disclosed that the sites were located at Odagwa-Owaza riverside boundaries of Rivers and Abia while the other was at Etche local government area of Rivers State. Afolabi said…
