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POPE LEO CONDEMNS ‘TERRIBLE MASSACRE’ IN BENUE Pope Leo XIV on Sunday offered prayers for the victims of what he described as a “terrible massacre” in Benue State, Nigeria. Over 200 people were reportedly brutally killed in the Yelewata community of Guma Local Government Area in one of the latest incidents of herdsmen attacks in the state. Speaking during his …

SARO-WIWA’S FAMILY REACTS TO NATIONAL HONOUR, PARDON FROM TINUBU The reaction from Saro-Wiwa’s family to the national honours differs from that the renowned environmentalist, Nnimmo Bassey, who said that “Ken Saro-Wiwa and the others deserve to be honoured. But coming at a time when the government is desperate to jack up oil production, while pollution continues unabated, the move is …

HOW’ EX- GOVERNOR Adeleke NAILED THE COFFIN OF INTERIM GOVT THEN ABACHA STRUCK, BY SULE LAMIDO Alhaji Sule Lamido was the Secretary General of the Third Republic Social Democratic Party (SDP), the party that produced the late Chief MKO Abiola who won the June 12, 1993 presidential election but was annulled by the military. Lamido played key roles in the …

ANGRY BENUE YOUTHS PROTEST, BLOCK ABUJA-MAKURDI ROAD Angry Benue youths on Sunday staged a protest and blocked the Abuja-Makurdi highway, expressing outrage over the continued killings in the state. The demonstrators, dressed in black attires and carrying palm fronds and placards with various inscriptions, barricaded the ever-busy road, disrupting vehicular movement and demanding immediate action to end the bloodshed. DAILY …

WHY TINUBU DID NOT REINSTATE FUBARA ON JUNE 12 Millions of Rivers people, especially the loyalists of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, on Thursday, June 12, had their hope dashed as they had marked out the date to be a moment of wild jubilation and partying. The expectation everywhere was that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would use the opportunity of that date …

INTERPOL ISSUES RED NOTICE FOR GHANA’S EX-FINANCE MINISTER OVER ALLEGED CORRUPTION The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has issued a red notice on Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s former finance minister, for allegedly using public office for personal gains. A red notice is a request to law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar …

PERM SEC, FOUR OTHERS ELECTROCUTED IN GOMBE A Permanent Secretary in the Gombe State Civil Service and four other people were electrocuted, while 13 others sustained varying degrees of injuries, following a high-voltage surge of electricity supply in the early hours of Saturday. Muhammad Yusuf Kulani was the Permanent Secretary at the state’s Ministry of Special Duties and Regional Integration. …

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERS ADDING NIGERIA TO US TRAVEL BAN LIST The United States is weighing a significant expansion of its controversial travel ban, with Nigeria among 36 countries now under consideration for new visa restrictions, according to a State Department memo reviewed by The Washington Post. The internal communication, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and dispatched to U.S. …

YOU SUPPORT TINUBU & WANT A SIDECHICK IN ATIKU’, WHAT A MOCKERY! IBE TACKLES RENO Reno Omokri, you are a classic case study in psychological projection — an insecure man so desperate to escape his own failures that he accuses others of the very flaws that define him. Credibility and Reno Omokri in the same grammatical environment? Oh, what a …

WIKE, FAYOSE, ORTOM, IKPEAZU MEET PRESIDENT TINUBU IN ASO ROCK President Bola Tinubu met with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, and some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Those present at the meeting include the former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose; former governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom; and former governor of Abia State, …