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Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics
Friday, May 28th, 2021
New chief of army staff Major General Farouk Yahaya By Abankula Major General Farouk Yahaya has been appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the new Chief of Army Staff. Yahaya succeeds Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died last Friday in an Air Force plane crash.. Yahaya’ s appointment was announced today by Brigadier General Onyema […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
A group known as the Muslim Congress has submitted a memo to the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, proposing the implementation of Sharia in the southwest region. The Islamic religious law is implemented in Muslim-majority states in the Northern region, despite the constitutional provision that states be secular. Sharia is alien […]
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Headlines
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Chris Okotie By Sam Eyoboka THE Shepherd Superintendent of the Household of God Church, Reverend Chris Okotie has warned that Nigeria is at the threshold of a major crisis. In his second public statement in the last three weeks, the reverend gentleman and erstwhile presidential candidate, said that the forces holding Nigeria hostage would be […]
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Headlines
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Eighteen Nigerians have been defrauded in London, United Kingdom by passport racketeers while trying to renew or acquire Nigerian passports. Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this in a statement issued by the Head of Media and Public Relations, Abdur-Rahman Balogun. Dabiri-Erewa hailed the Nigerian High Commission in the UK for its […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Headlines
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
After recording multiple air crashes, the Nigerian Air Force has set up a committee to conduct safety audit of its operational and engineering units, The PUNCH reports. This was contained in a statement on Tuesday signed by NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore, Edward Gabkwet, The statement was titled, ‘NAF Sets Up Committee To […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Headlines
Monday, May 24th, 2021
TUESDAY WITH REUBEN ABATI BY REUBEN ABATI The Nigerian Air Force is the youngest arm of the Nigerian military having been established only on April 18, 1964. In the course of its 57 years of operation, defending the air space of Nigeria and the country’s territorial integrity, the NAF has seen action in many theatres […]
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Headlines
Monday, May 24th, 2021
From Okwe Obi, Abuja The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA, has disclosed that over 2.353 million Nigerians were displaced by bandits and natural disasters like flooding, building collapse and fire outbreaks in 2020. NEMA’s Director General, Mohammadu Mohammed, stated this, yesterday, in Abuja during the presentation of the agency’s annual report and induction of disaster risk […]
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Biafra, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, May 24th, 2021
From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri Leader of Biafra Independence Movement and Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (BIM-MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, is to address the global community on the criminalisation of the Biafra self – determination struggle by the Nigerian state and to point a way forward. A release made available, yesterday, by Uwazuruike’s media assistant, Chris […]
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Africa & World Politics
Monday, May 24th, 2021
By Francis E. Ogbimi The passage, Ecclesiastes 1: 9-11, 18: said, ‘What has happened before will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing new in the world. Look, they say, here is something new! But no, it has all happened before, long before we were born. No one remembers what has […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Monday, May 24th, 2021
The people of Ugbawka, Newe, Nkerefi and Nara, in Enugu State, has called on the attention of the federal and state governments over alleged plan by herders to unleash mayhem on the community. As gathered, the herders recently left their settlement at the boundary between Ogbaku and Ugbawka, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of the […]
