Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has directed all civil and public servants to report to work on Monday despite the Sit-At-Home order issued by the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that IPOB had fixed Monday every week for its Sit-At-Home protest. Umahi gave the directive in a…
The United States conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State target in Afghanistan on Saturday, as the airlift of those desperate to flee moved into its fraught final stages with fresh terror attack warnings and encroaching Taliban forces primed to take over Kabul airport. US forces overseeing the evacuation have been forced into closer…
The leadership crisis rocking the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has taken another turn as a Cross River High Court has again granted an interim order restraining Uche Secondus from parading himself as the party's national chaiman. This is coming after a Kebbi State High Court on Thursday reinstated Secondus as the PDP Chairman…
The headmaster of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school, Tegina in Rafi LGA of Niger state, Abubakar Alhassan, has disclosed that the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOA), late TB Joshua contributed to the rescue of the abducted pupils. This was made known by Alhassan while speaking to journalists on Friday after the pupils,…
Another batch of 32 abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Damishi, in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state, have regained their freedom, bringing the total of those released to 90. The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State, Rev. John Hayab, confirmed the release of the students to the…
The Plateau State House of Assembly has given Gov. Simon Lalong two weeks to address the security challenges bedviling the state. Mr Philip Dasun, Chairman, House Committee on Information conveyed the position of the legislators when he briefed newsmen in Jos. Dasun said that the assembly would know the next line of action after the…
Professor Wole Soyinka has urged the government of the Republic of Benin to release Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to continue his journey. The human rights activist made this revelation while speaking with journalists in Lagos on Friday during an interactive session titled, “Sanctions on the loose: Chasing the gnat…
With the September 11 by-election into the vacant Isoko South constituency I around the corner, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) has declared that it is fully prepared and that it is going to be an opportunity for the party to prove its mettle in Delta State ahead of the 2023 general elections. It would be…
The Department of State Services (DSS), has denied dispersing doctors attending a Saudi Arabia-organised job interview at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja on Thursday. Spokesman for the Service, Dr Peter Afunanya, made the denial in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. Afunanya said the denial became necessary following incorrect information published circulated in some…