Thursday, 09 January, 2025

Month: February 2023


The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has set up a special investigation team to commence investigations into allegations of extrajudicial killings, corruption, and high-handedness levelled against some police officers serving at the Zone 13 Command, Ukpo-Dunukofia, and the Anambra Read more…


The supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, will on Saturday, February 18, 2023, embark on a 100-million-man march across the 774 local government areas in the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Read more…


Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk has warned civilians who remained in the Russian city of Artyomovsk to leave immediately. The official expressed surprise that thousands of people reportedly remain in the area as Kiev’s troops attempt to hold it. “Frankly, Read more…


Any Western attempts to transfer seized Russian assets to Ukraine would be “barbarism,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed. If necessary, Moscow is ready to impose a tit-for-tat response, she added. Speaking at a press briefing on Friday, Zakharova Read more…


Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that an act of aggression by Kiev against his country is the sole reason Belarus would involve itself in the Ukraine conflict. He also claimed that the West wants to drag Minsk into the Read more…


Seif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer who is a high-ranking member of al Qaeda with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, is now the “uncontested” leader of the militant group, according to a new U.N. report Read more…


Recall that the Supreme Court had on Wednesday, affirmed the validity of the old notes, maintaining that the hearing on February 8 which paused the implementation of the February 10 deadline on the use of the old naira notes still Read more…


The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday night, alleged that the scarcity of naira notes was a part of the plots to disrupt the forthcoming elections in order to ensure the emergence of an interim government. In a Read more…


A Nigerian senior secondary school student, Gbenga Ezekiel entered the Guinness World Record for the most skips in a minute on one leg. The 16-year-old attends Ijapo High School in Akure, the Ondo State capital. With 265 skips, Ezekiel successfully Read more…


The Governor who was a guest at the meeting which drew stakeholders from the 276 Council Wards of the state, got a rousing ovation from the participants who went ecstatic chanting his name and that of the LP presidential candidate Read more…


AHEAD of the presidential elections, Governor Nyesom Wike has said All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, possesses the character and courage required for Nigeria. Wike who received Tinubu at the Government House, Port Harcourt, shortly after the Read more…


President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to depart Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday to participate in the 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU). The theme of the AU Summit is ‘‘Acceleration of the African Read more…