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  The Lagos State Coroner has asked members of the public to come forward to identify persons who were declared missing between October 19 and 27, 2020.   This period covers the days before and after the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate in the state.   This request was made in an […]

Bandits who kidnapped six Assistant Superintendents of Police in northern Nigeria have demanded a ransom of N100m for their release.   They were kidnapped in Katsina State about a week ago on their way from Maiduguri in Bornu State to Zamfara on posting.   They were among nine newly promoted ASPs who were attached to […]

The Nigerian Government has dismissed CNN’s report of massacre of #ENDSARS protesters on October 20 by security agents, describing the incident as ‘massacre without bodies’   Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said this at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday.   He described the report, which has gone viral, as a piece […]

…blames resource control for EndSARS protests   Alhaji Danladi Pasali, National Coordinator of the Buhari Campaign Organization,   has declared that the gold deposits found in Zamfara State belong to Nigeria, and not the state, as has been claimed by the governor.   Pasali was reacting to claims by Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, who has […]

At least fifty persons are said to have died from a strange disease in Olamaboro Local Government Area of the state.   The State House of Assembly has therefore called on State and Federal Ministries of Health to unravel the cause of the disease in order to forestall further deaths.   The House made the […]

Jerry John Rawlings, Ghana’s former President, has died of complications from the Covid-19. He was aged 73.    Rawlings had been hospitalized at Korle Bu, the Teaching Hospital of the University of Ghana, Legon, for a week, after he was infected with the Covid-19 virus, before his death on Thursday   He was born in […]

   The Southwest Governors’ Forum, on Sunday said the region witnessed an “attack on our heritage” after the #EndSARS protest was hijacked by hoodlums.    Their views were captured by Rotimi Akeredolu, chairman of the Forum and governor of Ondo State. He expressed the opinion at a meeting of the governors of the region, held […]

While votes are still being counted, Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. President, has launched an official transition website, www.buildbackbetter.com. The move comes as votes are still being counted in many states and the presidential race still undecided. On the www.buildbackbetter.com website is a short statement that reiterates Biden’s earlier assertion that it […]Read More

  Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, were on Thursday sworn in for a second term in office.   The Oath of Office was administered around 12 noon by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Esther Edigin.   In attendance at the inauguration which took place on Thursday at the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it lacks the power to investigate or disqualify the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the governorship election in Edo state on September 19, Governor Godwin Obaseki, over alleged forgery of the University of Ibadan’s (UI) certificate.    INEC is the first respondent in a […]

Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State, has said that said  that  there sis no Nigerian law that permits Zamfara State to control and manage  gold deposits in the state.   The governor said that  governors of South-South region would soon take up the matter with the Federal Government.    Okowa, who spoke at his 2020 […]

The 2020 American Presidential election has left the United States so intolerably divided that the nation known as the leader of the world now risks being ridiculed by those it has always sought to lead. A fractured America is a weakened America, one that will soon become vulnerable to the attacks of its enemies.   […]