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…
Former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Sir Mike Mbama Okiro, who served between June 1, 2007 and July 24, 2009, has noted that the activities of the Boko Haram insurgency could have been nipped in the bud if the federal authorities had Read more…
Police officers across Nigeria have been directed to shoot on sight anyone found carrying illegal firearms, following a fresh directive by the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, aimed at strengthening the fight against insecurity. Disu issued the order on Friday Read more…
The United States has condemned the killing of members of the family of Plateau-based cleric, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, calling for those responsible for the attack to be brought to justice and urging the Nigerian government to strengthen security in vulnerable Read more…
A PREMIUM TIMES investigation reconstructs the official Hajj registration and screening process after the arrest of seven returning pilgrims suspected to be terrorists at Katsina airport. The atmosphere inside the international arrivals terminal at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport Read more…
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said that revelations from the probe of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) has exposed a Federal Government trapped by its own contradictions. Consequently, Atiku, in a statement by his Senior Special Read more…