A clash which broke out between two miscreants at a market in Ilepo, Oke Odo area of Lagos State has left four persons injured. The fight which occurred on Sunday was said to be a result of a misunderstanding between two young men from the Hausa and Yoruba tribes. According to the Police Public Relations Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated D’Tigress, the national female basketball team, for winning the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket 2019 championship in Dakar, Senegal. He also commended the victorious D’Tigress for an impressive outing in Dakar that saw the Nigerian ladies retaining the African title. The Nigerian ladies defeated their counterparts and host nation Senegal 60-55 to Read more
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has disclosed why its members attacked former deputy senate president, Ike Ekeremadu, in Germany. Senator Ekweremadu, representing Enugu West Senatorial District, was attacked in Nuremberg, Germany where he was attending the New Yam Festival of Igbo community in that country. IPOB,in its reaction to the attack, said it has ordered its Read more
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora, has faulted the attack on the former deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu at the 2nd Annual Igbo Cultural Festival held in Nuremberg, Germany. Senator Ekweremadu, who was attending as a speaker and special guest of honour at the event organised by the Ndi-igbo Germany community was reportedly Read more
The government of Ogun State, on Saturday, held a joint meeting with farmers and Fulani herdsmen in the state, as part of efforts to resolve reoccurring clashes and as well promote peaceful co-existence between the two groups. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Mrs Abosede Ogunleye, said at the meeting in Abeokuta that the effort Read more
An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court will, on Monday, deliver its ruling in a suit, seeking to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from inaugurating the 43 ministerial nominees over the exclusion of an FCT indigene from his cabinet list. The applicant, Musa Baba-Panya, who was also the counsel in the case had on Thursday Read more
The Yobe state police command has arrested a mobile police inspector on special duty in the state for insulting President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and IGP on his Facebook page. Daily Post NG reports that CP Abdulmaliki Sunmonu, the commissioner of Police in the state, confirmed the incident, saying the Inspector was invited Read more
The Shiites members in the fold of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, have disclosed the reason behind Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky’s hasty return from India without receiving medical treatment. According to the group, the decision to leave India was because of El-Zakzaky’s refusal to succumb to the imposition of medical treatment by the Nigerian Read more
Professor Kingsley Moghalu, the presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Congress (YPP) in the 2019 general elections, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari for imposing a ban on provision of foreign exchange for the importation of food into the country. Professor Moghalu criticised President Buhari’s directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) during an interview Read more
The Federal Government has said that the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, who was taken to India for medical treatment, was frustrating the Indian hospital in the process of his medical treatment. El-Zakzaky, who was arrested in 2015 following a clash between his members and military personnel in Zaria, Read more
