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OVER 80 COMMUNITIES TAKEN OVER BY FULANI TERRORISTS IN BENUE, PLATEAU — CHRISTIAN GROUP RAISES ALARM The Christian Rights Agenda, CRA, a faith-based advocacy organisation, has called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration to urgently review its counter-terrorism strategy, expressing grave concern over renewed violence in parts of Benue and Plateau states. In a statement issued in Abuja, CRA revealed that …

OVER 80 COMMUNITIES TAKEN OVER BY FULANI TERRORISTS IN BENUE, PLATEAU — CHRISTIAN GROUP RAISES ALARM The Christian Rights Agenda, CRA, a faith-based advocacy organisation, has called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration to urgently review its counter-terrorism strategy, expressing grave concern over renewed violence in parts of Benue and Plateau states. In a statement issued in Abuja, CRA revealed that …

NNPCL SACKS SENIOR STAFF, OVER 200 OTHERS IN MAJOR RESTRUCTURING The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd has terminated the services of several senior staff members as part of a significant restructuring exercise, News360 Nigeria reports. Sources close to the matter told ait live that the affected staff include Bala Wunti, former chief of National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), …

AGBAKOBA DEMANDS RETRACTION OF NATASHA’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS Renowned senior lawyer and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has written a second letter to the suspended Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, demanding a retraction of what he described as her “clearly false and unsubstantiated” sexual harassment allegations against Senate …

TINUBU USING NIGERIA’S RESOURCES TO CRIPPLE OPPOSITION – SULE LAMIDO Former Jigawa State governor and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sule Lamido, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of weaponising state power to stifle opposition voices, warning that such actions threaten Nigeria’s democracy. Lamido, who spoke in an interview with BBC on Tuesday said harassment and intimidation …

NIGERIA’S POLITICAL PARTIES RUN AS CASH & CARRY BUSINESS, LACK IDEOLOGY – TAJUDEEN ABBAS The speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, on Monday said Nigerians must find ways to make political parties fulfill their objectives and not turn it into business ventures by their managers. Mr Abbas said this in Abuja, in his keynote address at a technical …

SAUDI SLEEPING PRINCE WHO HAS BEEN IN COMA SINCE 2005 CLOCKS 36 Prince Al-Waleed, a member of the Saudi royal family, has been in a coma since a car accident in 2005 while he was studying. Even though doctors said there was little hope, his father chose to keep him on life support, believing that he might wake up one …

I ESTABLISHED RADIO BIAFRA TO PROMOTE TRUTH, PEACE – NNAMDI KANU Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), stated that he established Radio Biafra to “promote truth, peace, and the fight for fundamental human rights.” He made this statement during an interrogation by the Department of State Services (DSS), a video of which was played in …

IT’S FAKE NEWS, TINUBU DID NOT SACK ANY MINISTER – PRESIDENCY The Presidency has condemned as false and dangerous a viral report claiming that President Bola Tinubu has sacked the Ministers of Defence and Power, calling for immediate action against the spreaders of such misinformation. The story, first published by Phoenix Browser with the headline ‘BREAKING: Tinubu Sacks Ministers of …

CBEX MAJOR PROMOTER, ADEFOWORA FINALLY SUBMIT HIMSELF TO EFCC One of the suspected promoters of the cryptocurrency trading platform, Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX), Adefowora Abiodun, has voluntarily surrendered himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigation. Abiodun, accompanied by his lawyers, turned himself in at the EFCC headquarters at 4:00 p.m. on Monday and expressed his willingness …