Three persons were killed by suspected armed herdsmen on Tuesday afternoon in Umogidi village in the Enetekpa Adoka district of Otukpo Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State. The attack on the Umogidi community came to less than 24 houses after a monarch and his subjects were killed by the marauders in Ugbobi village in Apa LGA in what locals …

At least 35 indigenes of Katsina State are studying cyber security and space engineering at the Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State. Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Noah Yusuf said that the Katsina State government is bankrolling the programmes for the undergraduates. Yusuf urged other state governments to take a cue from the Katsina State government by sending their wards …

European countries got a request from the Federal Government yesterday – they should stop harbouring members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPoB). During his engagements with some international media organisations on Nigeria’s just-concluded elections, Information, Culture, and Tourism Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed alleged that members of the group use funds raised in Western countries to “destabilise” Nigeria. IPoB has …

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB) has urged Igbo outside the South-East region to return home and be counted during the 2023 census. The National Population Census is scheduled for 3rd to 5th May. IPoB said it was imperative for the Igbo to be counted during this year’s census in order to ascertain their actual population size, adding the …

A Federal Capital Territory High Court has issued an order restraining the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure; National Secretary, Farouk Ibrahim and two others from parading themselves as national officers of the party. Others stopped from parading themselves as national officers are the National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu and the Treasurer, Oluchi Opara. Justice Hamza Muazu issued …

Following the clash between supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Monday, the state Police Command has invited the APC governorship candidate, Prince Tonye Cole for questioning. In a phone conversation with Channels Television on Wednesday, the Commissioner of Police Okon Effiong said: “Tonye Cole was …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to the United Kingdom court that found former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, guilty of organ trafficking. In the letter addressed to the Chief Clerk, the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey in London, the former President urged the Clerk to intervene and ensure the UK government tempered justice with mercy …

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr Ahmed Audi has ordered the deployment of 30,000 personnel from its offices across the country to beef up security across the country, ahead of the Easter celebration. Audi gave this order in Abuja, while addressing personnel on the need for effective policing of the nation against any atrocious …

The Special Adviser to the Governor of Oyo State on Labour Matters, Mr Bayo Titilola-Sodo has enjoined journalists in the state to criticise the present government in the state constructively. Hosting members of the Oyo State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) to an Iftar meal in his residence in Ibadan on Wednesday, Titilola-Sodo described the union as …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N320,345,040, 835 as the 2023 intervention funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. At the annual strategic planning workshop with all heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja on Wednesday, the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Mr Sonny Echono said that with the 2023 intervention cycle, each university would receive N1,154,732,133. …