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Following in ethnic clashes between Hausa Fulani migrants and Yoruba in Ile-Ife in Osun State, Afenifere, a pan social-political organisation in Yorubaland has issued a statement condemning the way and manner in which the federal police handled the crisis when it was reported by community leaders and the said “investigations” into the killing which recorded […]

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested one Saheed Omoniyi over alleged N11 million fraud perpetrated through the Internet. Ayo Oyewole, the head of public affairs, EFCC Ibadan Zonal Office, told newsmen in Ibadan on Thursday, March 16, 2016 that Omoniyi, 24, lured his victims to defraud them by posing as a renowned […]

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The Nigerian Senate minutes ago on Thursday, March 16, 2017 sent away, Hameed Ali, the comptroller-general of the Nigeria Customs Service, for failing to appear before it wearing customs uniform as earlier directed by the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly. The senators in a voice vote ordered the customs boss, a retired army colonel, to […]

have been reluctant to write anything about the clash between the Yoruba and the Hausa Fulani in the ancient city of Ile-Ife and in which far many more people were killed than anyone cares to publicly admit. I was reluctant because Ile-Ife happens to be the home of my ancestors and indeed my hometown and […]

The 81 Division of the Nigerian Army on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 said it had set up a Board of Inquiry (BOI), and detained six soldiers over the brutality on a woman in Lagos state. The incident on 12 March, according to the division’s spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Olaolu Daudu, happened in Odoguyan, Ikorodu area of […]

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (Rtd), has arrived the National Assembly without wearing the complete Customs uniform as directed by the Nigerian Senate where he would appear before the senators at the Red Chambers soon. Ali, who arrived at around 9:30 a.m., went straight to the office of the senate president, […]

Following the rejection of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, a pro-democracy group has called for the immediate reform of the anti-graft agency. The body, Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy and Constitution, CDNDC, also urged the Senate not to stop at declining Magu’s confirmation alone, but to […]

Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti State, has described the adultery allegation against Apostle Johnson Suleiman of the Omega Power Ministries by one Miss Stephanie Otobo as “high level conspiracy meant to destroy the integrity of the pastor and silence his critical and principled voice of truth and dissent in a nation fast becoming a […]

Donald Trump is alluded to in Snoop Dogg’s latest music video, in which the rapper points a gun at a clown reminiscent of the POTUS, during which a flag with the word ‘bang’ on it shoots out of the barrel. If you thought the literal President Of The United States had a sufficient amount on […]

It was a gory sight at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Federal Teaching Hospital, FETHA, Abakaliki, in Ebonyi State, as an 8-month-old baby boy was stabbed by his reportedly mentally-sick mother and brought into the ward for surgery with the knife still stuck in the boy’s abdomen. Though there is no full details […]