A Catholic priest of Enugu Diocese, Reverend Fr. Paul Offu has been reportedly shot dead by unidentified gunmen. The priest was said to have been killed in Awgu Local Government Area of the state around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday night. Offu’s death is coming barely five months after Rev. Fr.Continue Reading
Gunmen, on Thursday, abducted five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), The Nation reports. The news of the pastors’ abduction was announced on Friday by the General Overseer of the RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye during his message at the ongoing ministers’ conference holding at the Redemption Camp,Continue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari, says the Federal Government’s introduced National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), has in three years, lifted no fewer than 5 million Nigerians out of extreme poverty.. Buhari said this at the opening of the Global Youth Employment Forum of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Abuja on Thursday.Continue Reading
Former Minister of Information and Niger-Delta leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has disagreed with the Senate’s position on the Edo State Assembly crisis. According to him, the order for Governor Godwin Obaseki to issue a fresh proclamation was unconstitutional and wrong. He, therefore, warned the National Assembly against creating anarchy inContinue Reading
The Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, on Thursday, said the era where President Muhammadu Buhari was threatened with “impeachments” by the previous legislature was over with his emergence as Deputy Senate President and that of Sen. Ahmed Lawan, Senate President. “Gone are those when impeachment threats will be issuedContinue Reading
The Zamfara State House of Assembly has suspended the Maradun Local Government Chairman, Alhaji Ahmad Abubakar for working against security in the state. The suspension was announced by the Speaker of the House, Hon. Nasiru Ma’azu Magarya at a plenary following a petition sent to the Assembly against the councilContinue Reading
The Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Elder Simon Achuba, has cried out his life is under threat. In an interview with pressmen on Thursday at his official residence in Lokoja, the embattled deputy governor alleged Governor Yahaya Bello has detailed gunmen to kill him. He alleged the gunmen, on theContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the appointment of Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch as a minister in the United Kingdom. Badenoch was appointed by Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, as minister of children and families to work in the department of education. Via a statement signed by Garba Shehu, Buhari’s senior special assistantContinue Reading
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, is leading a team of senior police officers to a meeting with some state governors as part of efforts aimed at tackling security challenges being witnessed in parts of the country. Our correspondent learnt that the meeting will hold later today at the KatsinaContinue Reading
The Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of “doing all kinds of things that can divide the country”. Afenifere said this in response to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s call on those seeking the dissolution of Nigeria to look at the case of Sudan whichContinue Reading
