From Ifeoma Ejiofor Anambra Police Operatives attached to the Rapid Response Squad(RRS)Awkuzuduring a coordinated operation arrested thirty eight year old Dauda Mohamed, a suspected member of a notorious kidnapping syndicate in Kogi State. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Read more…
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has challenged President Bola Tinubu to order the reopening of files on unresolved assassinations and extrajudicial killings across the country, warning that Nigeria risks institutionalising a culture of impunity if perpetrators of violent crimes continue to Read more…
The Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2027 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that insecurity, hunger and poverty are harassing Nigerians under President Bola Tinubu’s administration Obi said people were being harassed by the worsening situation in Read more…
The Nigerian Army has commenced an investigation into the leakage of a classified Department of State Services intelligence report warning of planned attacks by suspected Boko Haram insurgents and bandits in parts of Adamawa and Borno states. Findings by The PUNCH revealed Read more…
Fresh details emerged on Wednesday in the House of Representatives’ investigation into the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, as the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, admitted that her office failed to carry out Read more…
This is another part of a PREMIUM TIMES exclusive series on the failed coup against President Tinubu revealing how the alleged mastermind paid millions of naira to seek spiritual backing for the plot. For months, Mohammed Ma’aji, a Nigerian Army Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), RS5.3 Anambra Sector Command, has recovered a suspected stolen Toyota Corolla found during routine vehicle documentation and verification at the Anambra National Vehicle Identification Scheme (NVIS) Desk Office in Awka. SRC Read more…
Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has rejected calls for Nigerians to boycott South African singer Tyla’s forthcoming Lagos concert, arguing that public outrage over xenophobic attacks in South Africa should be directed at political leaders rather Read more…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has declined to receive a special envoy dispatched by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The refusal is coming amidst growing concerns over persistent xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa. A Daily Sun source disclosed that Read more…
Condemnation has continued to trail the killing of at least 30 persons in Naridon (Kizakoro) community, Kamaru Ward, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Save Nigeria Group USA (SNG-USA) and U.S.–Nigeria Read more…
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), sitting in Lagos, has ordered the immediate reinstatement of 70 soldiers of the Nigerian Army who were convicted by courts-martial in 2014 but later granted presidential pardon by former President Muhammadu Buhari. The Read more…
Multiple sources told PREMIUM TIMES that the permanent secretary’s demand was contrary to established civil service procedures, raising suspicions that there may have been an ulterior motive behind her action. Barely two days after a PREMIUM TIMES report detailed how Binyerem Ukaire, Read more…