Month: July 2025

A familiar rivalry will be reignited on Thursday evening under the lights at the Palais de Sports Treichville in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire as defending champions Nigeria’s D’Tigress take on the Lionesses of Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 2025 Women’s Afrobasket. The D’Tigress awaited the outcome of Wednesday night’s match to discover their opponent in […]

Kogi State government has said the state currently has nine family courts and some magistrate courts handling Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases. The state’s commissioner for Justice and Attorney-Generale, Muiz Yinus Abdullahi (SAN), made this known when he received a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Project Ebulejonu, led by its founder and executive director, Mrs Elizabeth Ebulejonu Achimugu, […]

A former governor of Imo State, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, has condemned  the recent killings in Umualoma, Ndiakunwanta, and Ndiejezie communities in Arondizuogu, Ideato North local government area of the state. The ex-Imo governor, in a statement, described the massacre as “inhuman, unprovoked, and utterly reprehensible.” He decried a culture of unchecked violence that undermines the […]

Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, and the state House of Assembly’s Speaker, Rt. Hon. Abubakar Y. Suleiman, have congratulated the Emir of Bauchi, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu, on the 15th anniversary of his ascension to the throne of the Bauchi Emirate, marked yesterday. Mohammed described the emir’s leadership style over the past […]

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos Special Offences Court in Ikeja yesterday granted permission for Ahmed Kuru, a former managing director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), to travel abroad for medical treatment. Justice Dada also ordered the release of Kuru’s international passport so that he could travel to London, United Kingdom, for […]

A Tiv socio-cultural group, Mdzough U Tiv, has endorsed the views expressed by Prof. Zachary Gundu, stating that the attackers of Benue State are harboured in Nasarawa State. it asked the state’s chief security officer, Governor Abdullahi Sule, to prioritise peace and reconciliation with neighbouring communities rather than resorting to lawsuits against concerned citizens. The […]

Leaders of host ethnic nationalities in the Eastern corridor of the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to renew and expand the contract of an indigenous surveillance firm, Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL). Under the aegis of Pipeline Host Ethnic Nationality Leaders of the Eastern, the stakeholders comprising traditional rulers, youth […]

Chairman of the Edo State Task Force on Protection of Government Property, Eugene Okolosie, says six persons have been arrested in connection with pipeline vandalism suspected to have been carried out in collusion with some members of the community. The damage was done to the Warri-Kaduna crude oil pipeline at the Ekperi axis in Edo […]

A former spokesman of apex Igbo social-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chuks Ibegbu, has threatened to sue the Lagos State government over the recent reported renaming of some streets and the Charly Boy Stop in Lagos. Ibegbu made the threat in an exclusive interview with our correspondent in Enugu. He expressed dismay over the development, describing […]

Authorities of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) in Rivers State have debunked reports on social media that a python crept into one of its classrooms and was killed by a student. A video which went viral on social media indicated that a snake had crept into one of the classes during evening lectures. One […]