JUST IN: Many Causalities As Truck Rams Into Nigerian Popular Mosque, Photos Tension As Truck Rams Into Nigerian Popular Mosque, Photos A trailer loaded with powdered milk rammed into a mosque at Suleja, Niger State, on Tuesday, leaving at least three persons trapped. The accident occurred around 6am when many people had left the mosque after morning prayers. According to eye witnesses, the trailer fell on the back section of the mosque where women and children pray. However, three people, including a child, were trapped in the ruins and subsequently sustained injuries. When our reporter visited the scene, sympathisers were…
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JUST IN: POB Declares Fresh Sit-At-Home In South-East JUST IN: POB Declares Fresh Sit-At-Home In South-East The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) asked the residents of the South-East to observe a sit-at-home on May 30, 2023, to honour the “fallen heroes”. May 30 every year has been observed by pro-Biafra agitators and civil war veterans as a memorial day for those who died during the 30 months civil war that reportedly claimed no fewer than three million lives. It is also a day now set aside to remember all those killed in all Biafra struggle in Nigeria. However, IPOB in…
JUST IN: Prophet Odumeje Challenges Soyinka To A Debate Popular Anambra cleric, Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere aka Prophet Odumeje has reportedly offered to take the place of Labour Party Vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, in a one-on-one debate suggested by Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.
EXCLUSIVE: Bribery Scandal Rocks Nigerian Police, Officers Pay $10,000 To Get Promotion EXCLUSIVE: Bribery Scandal Rocks Nigerian Police, Officers Pay $10,000 To Get Promotion Some senior officers of the Nigeria Police Force have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the promotion exercise going on in the force. The aggrieved officers alleged that the Police Service Commission gave special promotion to the junior officers above senior ones after allegedly collecting bribe of a sum of $10,000. The aggrieved officers, in a statement by Mr Chijioke Okonkwo on behalf of other officers, urged the presidency to probe the corrupt practices…
BREAKING: Court Denies Plane Anti-Tinubu Protester’s Bail Application Court Denies Plane Anti-Tinubu Protester’s Bail Application A Magistrate Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Tuesday, denied to grant a passenger debarked and handed over to the Police for making sensitive statement about President-elect, Bola Tinubu onboard an Ibom Air Abuja-Lagos bound flight penultimate Friday, Obiajulu Uja, bail. Ruling on the bail application filed by Uja, though his counsel, Senior Magistrate Mohammed Abdulazeez Ismail, sitting at Zuba, Abuja, held that the application was premature. According to him, the exhibits attached to the application did not say the defendant was unfit…
JUST IN: Less Than 24 Hours After Deleted Instagram Photos Of Second Wife, Yul Edochie’s Third Wife Surface Reactions have continued to trail the latest action of Nollywood actor Yul Edochie who took to Instagram on Monday to delete the photos of his second wife, Judy Austin. Edochie deleted many of his Instagram photos and videos, including those belonging to Judy shared over the past year. The actor also removed the post he made in April 2022 to announce that he had a new son and a second wife. Meanwhile, the Nollywood star still has photos of his first wife…
Leaked Audio: Clarify Which Part Is Fake?, Lai Asks Peter Obi To Say The Truth Or Else Leaked Audio: Clarify Which Part Is Fake?, Lai Asks Peter Obi To Say The Truth Or Else The Federal Government has challenged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to clarify his position on a leaked audio of the conversation he allegedly had with a prominent Nigerian cleric. The audio clip as released by an online newspaper was an alleged conversation between Obi and the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo. Addressing the media on Monday in London,…
Peak Milk Bows To Pressure, Removes Controversial Easter Advert, Apologises To CAN Peak Milk Bows To Pressure, Removes Controversial Easter Advert, Apologises To CAN Peak Milk manufacturer, FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc, has apologised to the Christian Association of Nigeria for using the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as a metaphor to promote their product on Good Friday, stating that the social media advertisement has been removed. While acknowledging the sensitivity of the social media post “considering the sobriety of the season,” the organisation stated that it was not intended to minimise the significance of the season or to overly exploit Jesus…
Real Reason Why Amaechi Persecuted Me As NPA Boss, Hadiza Usman Exposed Ex-Minister The immediate-past managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, has said that one of the reasons why she was persecuted by a former minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, was her failure to give him a birthday present. She revealed this in her new book released on Tuesday, titled “Stepping on Toes: My Odyssey at the Nigerian Ports Authority”. The former NPA boss wrote that many notable Nigerians met the minister in order to resolve the acrimony between them shortly after she was asked…
Nigerian Teenage Girls Drugged At Birthday Party, Wake Up Trafficked To Libya Teenage Girls Drugged At Birthday Party, Wake Up Trafficked To Libya The Osun State Police Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola, in a statement on Monday stated that the suspect had invited the victims to a birthday party in Ile-Ife, during which he offered them food and drinks but after the teenagers took the food and drinks, they fell asleep and only woke up at a place in Kano where papers were being processed for them to travel to Libya. The Osun State Command of the Nigeria Police Force…